立秋双语介绍
It's on August 8 or 9 every year meaning The Beginning of Autumn.
立秋在每年的8月8日或8月9日，意味着秋天的开始。
Standing" is the meaninig of beginning; "Autumn"means the grain is ripe.
“立”，是开始之意：“秋”，意为禾谷成熟。
The change of the whole nature is a grodual process, The Beginning of Autumn is Yang gradually harvest, Yin gradually grow. from Yang sheng gradually chlanged to Yin sheng turning point. In nature, things begin to grow from abundance to maturity.
整个自然界的变化是循序渐进的过程,立秋是阳气渐收、明气渐长，由阳盛逐渐转变为阴盛的转折。在自然界，万物开始从繁茂成长趋向成然。
The Beginning of Autumin does not mean the end of the hot weather, the weather is still very hot during the early autumn, into the autumn, from the summer rainy humid heat to the autuimn dry climate the most obvlous change in autumn is the vegetation leaves from lush green to yellow, and start to shed leaves, crops began to mature.
立秋并不代表酷热天气就此结束，初秋期间天气仍然很热,进入秋季后，由夏季的多用湿热过渡向秋季少雨干燥气候。秋季最明显的变化是草木的叶子从繁茂的绿色到发黄，并开始落叶庄稼则开始成熟。
立秋习俗
（1）Autumn Tiger秋老虎
Although Start of Autumn indicates The Beginning of Autumn, hot weather will not come to an end. The period of hot days ofter Start of Autumn, usually lasting for 30 days, is called "Autumn Tiger". Because of decreasing precipitation,it is even more sweltering during this period than during Major Heat.
虽然立秋预示着秋天的开始，但是炎热的天气还远没有结束。立秋过后,类热的天气通常还会再持续30天，这段时间被称之为"秋老虎”。因为降水量的减少，这一段时间甚至会比大暑还要热。
(2) Fleshing out in Autumn贴秋膘
On the first day of The Beginning of Autumn, usually people will weigh themselves and compare their weight to what it was at the Start of Sumimer. If one has lost weight during the summer, then at the beginning of autumn, he or she needs to flesh out by eoting many different kinds of delicious food, especially meat.
在立秋第一天，人们通常会称自己的体重，和立夏时的体重作比较。如果在夏天体重下降了，那么秋天开始的时候，人们就会吃许多美味的食物来进补，特别是肉食。
（3)Autumn Harvest 秋收
The Beginning of Autumn is a big solar term for formerrs.It is time to gather crops. There is a saying: "If it rains on the day of the Start of Autumn, a good harvest is expected."
对于农民来说，立秋是一个非常重要的节气——收庄稼的时候到了！有句俗语说得好”立秋下雨万物收”，即是说立秋如果下雨就会有好收成。
(4) Touching Autumn摸秋
There is the custom of"Touching Autumn" in the northern part of Yancheng, Jiangisu province. On the eve of The Beginning of Autumn, people can touch and take for free all kinds of fruits as they like in private or public gardens, and the owners will not be aingry, no matter how much they lose. Many gardeners even leave some mellow fruits in the field on purpose for the guests during the night.
江苏盐城北部地区有一个“摸秋”的习俗。在立秋前一天晚上，人们可以在公共或私人果园里随意摘取各种水果，而无论损失多少主人都不会生气。有些果园主人甚至还会专门为晚上来摸秋的客人准备许多成熟的水果。
俗语
①The autumn equinoxto the cold dew, wheatplanting is not delayed.
秋分到寒露，种麦不延误。
②In autumn, every inch of grass bears seeds.
立秋三天，寸草结籽。
③Deep wheat, shallow grain. half face covered with buckwheat
and sesame.
麦种深，谷种浅，荞麦芝麻盖半脸。
④Starting autumn walnut white pear, cold dew persimmon red skin.
立秋胡桃白露梨，寒露柿子红了皮。
⑤Buckwheat White Dew flower in autumn, cold dew buckwheat receives home.
立秋荞麦白露花，寒露荞麦收到家。
经典古诗词
①"One leaf falls and knows the autumn."
一叶落而知天下秋。
②"The clouds gather the color of summer, and the leaves move the sound of autumn."
云天收夏色，木叶动秋声。
转自翼呀同学
