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When is spring?

Spring break in 2020 is: February 4, 2020 17: 03, 12 seconds.

Beginning of spring has different customs in different places. For example, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is a custom of sending spring cattle. In other places, the rural areas put pictures of spring cattle on the drawing paper of the main room, which is now called the living room. If you pay attention, the "Spring Cattle Map" is usually printed on the traditional lunar calendar.

Why did people pay so much attention to cows that day in beginning of spring? This should be a custom left over from the farming society. In farming society, cattle are important means of production. As soon as spring comes, they need cows to work. Cattle are very important to farmers' friends Everyone wants the six domestic animals to prosper, so they put up a picture of spring cattle.