The Autumnal Equinox is the sixteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the fourth solar term in autumn. Dou refers to You; the sun reaches 180° of the yellow eternity; it is held every year from September 22 to 24th of the Gregorian calendar. On the autumnal equinox, the sun almost hits the earth's equator directly, and the day and night are equal to each other around the world. In the autumnal equinox, "dividing" means "equal division" and "half". In addition to referring to equal division of day and night, there is another meaning that it divides autumn equally. After the autumnal equinox, the direct sunlight position moves southward, the northern hemisphere has short days and long nights, the temperature difference between day and night increases, and the temperature drops day by day.The Autumnal Equinox was once the traditional "Moon Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from "Autumn Night Moon Festival".
Customs of the Autumnal Equinox: The customs of the Autumnal Equinox include worshiping the moon, eating autumn vegetables, sticking the mouth of the birds, flying kites, sending autumn cows, standing up eggs, making noodles, eating noodles, worshiping gods, throwing pots, and eating new food. Among them, eating autumn vegetables is a custom in the Lingnan region. Qiu vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, which the villagers call Qiubi. The sticky bird's mouth is the autumnal equinox. Hakka farmers are on holiday and eat dumplings. They also have to cook more than ten or twenty or thirty dumplings that do not need to be wrapped in heart, and use fine bamboo forks to place them on the outdoor ridge of the field. The name is sticky bird's mouth to prevent the bird from destroying the crops. The vertical eggs are coming from the autumnal equinox, and the eggs are pretty. On the Spring Equinox or Autumnal Equinox every year, many people in many places in our country are doing egg-raising experiments.
