Golden autumn is one of the most interesting and beautiful seasons. However, not everyone will agree with this fact – some people associate autumn with wilting, and there are enough people in the world who prefer other seasons. But aren’t the autumn forests and parks, with their yellow and red foliage, beautiful? No wonder that this time of year served as inspiration for so many poets, writers and artists.
Until the 18th century in Russia, it was believed that autumn begins not on September 1, but on September 23, and ended on December 25. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn months are March, April and May. There is no autumn as such in the equatorial belt of the Earth. There are no winter or summer there; they are replaced by dry and rainy seasons. Autumn depression is a real diagnosis. It affects about 5% of the population of countries in which there is autumn. Short-term warmth in autumn, known as Indian summer, happens almost every year.
Officially, the meteorological autumn does not quite coincide with the calendar, as the atmosphere and soil partly slow down the change of seasons. The leaves of the trees turn yellow in the fall due to the decrease in the chlorophyll content in them, which gives them a green color. Wet leaves that dot the road every fall are very slippery. A pedestrian can easily fall on them, and the braking distance of the car on the leaves is 5-10 times longer. According to statistics, in the fall months there are more weddings than in winter, summer or spring.
Psychoanalysts point out that in the fall, many people dulled the feeling of fear. Etymologically, the word “autumn” means “harvest time” or “harvest time.” American scientists have found that people born in the fall, on average, live longer than those born in other months. Autumnal equinox falls on September 22-23. Therefore, earlier autumn was counted from the 23rd, and not from the 1st. The Celts who once inhabited the territory of Ireland were considered the autumn months of August, September and October. Autumn Indian summer in the United States is called Indian, in Germany and Austria – an old woman, and in the Balkans – Gypsy.
