“The autumn equinox is still there, and the bamboo dew is slightly in the evening.” Autumn is high and crisp, and the fourth solar term of autumn, the autumn equinox, is coming quietly.

“The autumnal equinox is equal to yin and yang, so day and night are equal, and cold and summer are equal.” From the naming of the autumnal equinox, it is not difficult to see that on this day, yin and yang are equal, day and night are equal, and the dew is cold and the wind is clear. At the same time, this day happens to be in the middle of the 90 days from the beginning of autumn to the frosty autumn.

In the past, the autumnal equinox was an extremely important existence in the twenty-four solar terms. Because the autumn equinox used to be the traditional “moon sacrifice festival”, and the Mid-Autumn Festival also evolved from the “autumn festival sacrifice to the moon”. In addition, since 2018, the annual autumn equinox has been established as the “Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival”. In this solar term, when the fields are filled with the joy of a bumper harvest, and the people have more abundant food to be tasted, it is better to enjoy the few days of mid-autumn without being saddened by the upcoming bleak scene.