The custom activities of the autumnal equinox include: cooking dumplings, eating autumn vegetables, laying eggs, offering sacrifices to the moon and sending autumn cows.

1. Boiling dumplings

On the autumn equinox, there is a custom of cooking dumplings in many rural areas. People have to cook twenty or thirty dumplings without wrapping their hearts and put them on the edge of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks. This is "sticking the sparrow's mouth", which means to keep the sparrow from hurting crops.

2. Eat autumn vegetables

Many places eat a kind of wild vegetable called "wild amaranth" in the autumn equinox, and some places also call it "autumn Artemisia", which is the folk custom of "eating autumn vegetables". The whole family will pick autumn vegetables on the first day of the autumn equinox. When looking for it in the fields, it is often green and thin, about the size of a palm. The collected autumn vegetables are generally boiled with fish fillets, and the stewed soup is called autumn soup.

3, vertical egg

Vertical egg activities are not only available in the vernal equinox, but also popular in the autumn equinox. This folk custom is not only common in China, but has even gone abroad and gone to the world. Many countries and regions will have such activities in the autumn equinox.

4. Sacrifice to the Moon

The vernal equinox sacrifices the sun, while the autumnal equinox sacrifices the moon. Since ancient times, the autumnal equinox has been the traditional "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, ancient emperors had the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox, to the ground at the summer solstice, to the moon at the autumn equinox and to heaven at the winter solstice. Its places of worship are called Ritan, Ditan, Yuetan and Tiantan.

5. Sending autumn cows

It is to print the solar terms of the lunar calendar all year round on red paper or yellow paper, and also to print the farmer's ploughing pattern, named "Autumn Cattle Map". The picture givers are all folk singers who are good at saying that autumn ploughing and good luck are not against the farming season.

every time I go to a house, I feel touched by the scene and say whatever I see until the host is happy and gives me money. Although the words are improvised, every sentence has a good rhyme, commonly known as "autumn", and Qiu Ren is called "Qiu Guan".