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Did beginning of spring wash clothes that day?

There is no custom of washing clothes in beginning of spring. If the clothes will dry before New Year's Eve, that's good, so as to avoid the clothes being affected by the soot of firecrackers.

The beginning of spring customs

Spring outing: After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing, which is also the main form of spring outing.

Bite spring: beginning of spring has its own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes, coriander and so on. Eating spring rolls is very popular in the south. In fact, biting spring does not stop there. In addition to alleviating difficulties, it is mainly ventilation to keep people young. Spiced board is made up of five kinds of spicy food, with onion, garlic, pepper, ginger, mustard and so on, as a seasoning for meals.

Ju Mang: Ju Mang is the god of spring, that is, the god of plants and life. Ju Mang's image is a bird with human face and rules. On this day in beginning of spring, folk customs mainly focus on spring affairs. During the Zhou Dynasty, the East Hall was set up to welcome the Spring Festival, which shows that there is a long history of offering sacrifices to Ju Mang. During the Spring Festival in Ju Mang, Shandong Province, according to Ju Mang's clothing, the climate of that year was predicted: wearing a hat represents warm spring, balding represents cold spring, wearing shoes represents more spring rain, and barefoot represents less spring rain. Around Guangzhou and beginning of spring, people used drums to drive away the plague and pray for peace.

Whip Spring Cattle: Whip Spring Cattle, also known as Whip Cattle. It was popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially after Song Renzong promulgated the Classic of Cattle, and the custom of whipping cattle was more extensive. The significance of whipping spring cattle is not limited to sending air conditioning and promoting spring ploughing, but also has certain witchcraft significance. Shandong folks want to break the local cattle, and people compete for the spring cattle, which is called grabbing the spring and taking the cow's head as the luck. In addition to the pictures of spring cattle on the yellow calendar, the pictures of spring cattle are also widely engraved in New Year pictures all over the country as auspicious pictures during the Spring Festival.