Introduction: about the festival of autumn, we can associate the key words what, on the literal meaning of the word in the Lichu represents the beginning, and with the arrival of the Lichu festival, it also means that we have transitioned from the summer to the fall, but on the origins of the Lichu Introduction you still know how much, the following is the introduction of the Lichu festival 100 words.

Autumn, is the thirteenth of the twenty-four seasons, but also the end of the dry calendar in the month of Wei and the beginning of the month of Shen. The word "autumn" means the end of summer and the beginning of fall. At the beginning of autumn, sycamore trees start to lose their leaves, hence the idiom of "Fallen Leaves Know Autumn". From a literal point of view, the character "秋" (autumn) is composed of the characters "禾" and "火" (fire), which means "ripening of grain" (禾谷). Autumn is the transitional season when the weather changes from hot to cool and then from cool to cold, and the first autumn festival.

Origin of Autumn

"Autumn" is also a sign of harvest, the so-called "autumn is not cool, the seeds are not yellow", for the autumn, more favorable to the agricultural harvest. Autumn means the summer is gone and coolness comes, the beginning of fall. It is a festival that reflects the season. According to the "moon order seventy-two wait collection": "autumn, pull also, things in this and pull convergence also". Autumn is not only a sign of the hot summer is about to pass, autumn is coming. It also indicates that the grass and trees begin to fruit pregnant, the harvest season has arrived. Ancient people took the autumn as an important moment of the summer and autumn, has been very important to this festival, so also called "autumn".

Folk tales of the origin of Autumn

Folk tales of the origin of Autumn: the god of Autumn, Matsui

Ancient legend of the god of Autumn named Matsui. There was a snake coiled on Matsu's left ear and a huge axe on his right shoulder. The Classic of Mountains and Seas says that he lived on the Vitreous Mountain where he could see the sunset. The snake on Matshu's ear symbolizes reproduction and endless life. The Shijing-Skanli says, "Vicious and serpentine is auspicious for a woman. If you dream of a snake, you will give birth to a beautiful daughter.

The huge axe on Matsuo's shoulder indicates that he is also a god of punishment. In ancient times, the execution of prisoners was after the beginning of autumn, called the autumn beheading. Autumn has a killing gas. Woe to the autumn for the qi also, depression, grass and trees shake down and become bad. So mat received comes always with a cool feeling.

The origin of Autumn folktale 2: a leaf knows the autumn

"Five Lights will be the first" recorded that: the World Honored One on the Ling Shan, flicked the flower to show the crowd. At that time, all the people were silent, but only Ja Ye Zunyi broke the smile. The Buddha then passed on the mantle to Kaya. A small peach kernel is linked to a great plague, and the fall of a leaf tells the world of the fall of the world. Mahārāja Kā?yapa was able to realize the Dharma, which is universal in the universe and encompasses all things, from a single golden brahmacharya flower flicked up by the Buddha. It is a kind of great wisdom to understand the big by the small and to know the small by the small. It can only be realized by intention, not by words.

What are the customs of Autumn

Since the Republic of China, in the vast countryside, in the day or night of Autumn, there is the custom of divining the weather hot and cold. There are also watermelons, beans to taste the new, the custom of ancestor. On the day before the first day of Autumn, it was also customary to cook ice melons, steam eggplant preserves, and decoct Elshotzia drinks. The main customs of the Autumn Festival include: the Autumn Festival, touching the autumn, the Autumn Busy Meeting, and putting on autumn fat. The Autumn Festival, also known as the July Festival, is a festival of good intentions for people who cultivate and farm, for whom autumn means a whole year's harvest.

Autumn what to pay attention to

In terms of food and drink, Autumn this day to eat watermelon, steamed eggplant preserved, pan-fried glutinous drink, or drink shochu, are widely circulated by the long-established food customs. In the past, there are many folk on the festival, most of the food and disease prevention related, which is not unrelated to the people concerned about their own life and health. "People eat for heaven", autumn is a very important festival, of course, people can not forget to eat. That's why it's popular in Beijing and Hebei to "stick on the autumn fat". People's appetite is poor, so many people will lose some weight. During the Qing Dynasty, it was popular to weigh people with hanging scales on the day of Volt (mostly children, of course), and compare their weight with that of summer to check their fatness and thinness, and weight loss was called "bitter summer". At that time, people's judgment of health, often only fat and thin as a standard. Autumn in addition to "stick autumn fat", Tianjin and other places are also popular "bite autumn". And "bite spring", people believe that eating melon in the autumn can be exempted from the winter and the next spring diarrhea.