September 23, 2010 - the autumnal equinox.

Here and there was a fall calendar. But the approach has already astronomical autumn. September 23 in the early morning, at 7 h 09 min. The sun moves from the northern hemisphere to the southern sky and the day of the autumnal equinox, when day and night across the earth are equal in length and up rovno12 pm
The autumnal equinox in the national calendar - the middle of the Indian summer and the beginning of the golden autumn. It was believed that the weather on this day "sets" the weather in the autumn.
In Russia, on the day of the autumnal equinox marked "Ryabinkin birthday." Festivities were organized, stocked rowan. In the window frames were placed between the branches with berries of mountain ash, assuming that the ash will keep the house from the dark forces, because the clusters of red ash - a symbol of fire and light.

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