Custom activities and health care strategies of the vernal equinox and solar terms

At the vernal equinox, cold air constantly invades the south of China, and there will be cold weather in spring with low temperature. At this time, the continuous rain will have a great impact on crops. The following are the customs, activities and health care strategies I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

Custom activities of vernal equinox and solar terms

Stand an egg

"When the vernal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful." Every year on the vernal equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world are doing "vertical egg" experiments. How this toy, called "China Custom", became a "world game" is still difficult to verify. However, its gameplay is really simple and interesting.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The vernal equinox is also the beginning of the Spring Festival. Spring Festival, that is, the beginning of sweeping graves to worship ancestors, is also called Spring Festival. Before sweeping the grave, a grand ancestor worship ceremony should be held in the ancestral hall, pigs and sheep should be slaughtered, drummers should be invited to play, and the ritual students should read the eulogy and quote three praises. At the beginning of the spring equinox grave sweeping, the first thing is to sweep the graves of ancestors and distant ancestors. The whole family and the whole village have to be dispatched on a large scale, and the team often reaches hundreds or even thousands. After the ancestral graves of Kaiji and Yuanzu were swept, they were divided into rooms to sweep the graves of ancestors in each room, and finally each family swept the graves privately.

Eat spring vegetables

Confucius said, "From time to time, I don't eat." Food has its own season. As the name implies, spring vegetables are spring vegetables.

In Lingnan area, there is a custom of eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox. "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup". There is a jingle that says, "Spring soup is dirty, but it washes the liver and intestines. The whole family is safe and healthy. "

Send spring cattle

It's the vernal equinox, send a picture of spring cattle. Spring cattle map refers to printing the solar terms of all seasons on red paper or yellow paper, and then printing the patterns of farmers ploughing the fields. People who send pictures are generally good at singing. They mainly say some common sayings that spring ploughing and good luck do not go against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they improvise, make the host happy and give money. Although these words are spoken casually, they are melodious. Commonly known as "spring", spring people are called "spring officials".

Sticking sparrow's mouth

On the vernal equinox, farmers will eat jiaozi at home, cook a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi without heart, and put them in the outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks, which are called sticky birds' mouths to prevent birds from harming crops.

Go for an outing and fly kites

After the vernal equinox, people began to go for an outing one after another. Flying kites is an important outdoor activity. In ancient times, there was also the custom of drinking sanhua at the vernal equinox. On this day, people of all ages, men, women and children will spend flowers.

Kite, called "kite" in ancient times and "kite" in the north, has a history of more than 2000 years. Both "kite" and "kite" are eagles. In ancient times, kites were mostly made of silk or paper in the shape of eagles, so kites were also called "paper kites" and "paper kites". Later, kites took on different shapes, and most of them were released in spring.

Drink spring wine

China, Zhejiang and Shanxi's Vernal Equinox Wine-making Custom. It is recorded in an ancient book: "The wine brewed by the vernal equinox is stored in an urn, and the dross melts after three days. Its color is red, and its taste will not be bad for a long time. This is the so-called vernal equinox wine. "

worship

The folk festivals around the vernal equinox are February 15, Zhang Kai's birthday: Wang Sheng, also known as "Chen", was a warrior of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, who made great contributions to Zhangzhou and became the patron saint of Zhangzhou after his death. February 19 is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every birthday, many believers will go to Guanyin Temple to worship. On February 25th, Sanshan King Sacrifice Day: Sanshan King refers to Dushan, Mingshan, Jinshan and other mountain gods in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. In the early years, Chaozhou Hakka immigrants were the patron saint, so the believers were mainly Hakkas.

Health strategy of vernal equinox and solar terms

1, the spirit of aftercare

Spring is sunny and sunny, and the spirit should be relaxed, open-minded, optimistic, restrain depression and anger, and nourish nature. Going for a walk on holidays, traveling around mountains and waters, and cultivating temperament will make the blood flow smooth and energetic.

Step 2 keep out the cold

Go to bed early and get up early in spring, do more outdoor activities, stretch your body and make your day more energetic. Special attention should be paid to keeping out the cold, nourishing yang and astringing yin. According to the characteristics of cold and warm weather in early spring, clothes cannot be reduced, and winter clothes are taken off too early, which is easy to catch cold and hurt the lungs, causing respiratory diseases. According to the principle of "covering spring and freezing autumn", clothes must increase or decrease with the change of temperature to adapt to the changeable climate in spring.

Step 3 adjust your diet

In spring, the metabolism is vigorous, and the diet should be warm and nutritious. The principle of strengthening the spleen and strengthening yang is to avoid being too sour, light and delicious, greasy and cold, especially not to add more spicy and hot products, such as ginseng, velvet antler, aconite, spirits, etc., so as not to help the heat get angry. In spring, you should eat more foods rich in protein, minerals and vitamins (especially B vitamins), especially all kinds of yellow-green vegetables, such as cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, celery, spinach and leek. In addition, you should also pay attention not to overeat cold drinks and other foods too early, so as not to hurt your stomach and yang.

Step 4 exercise

A year's plan lies in spring, which is an excellent season for sports. The air is fresh in spring, which is conducive to expelling the old and absorbing the new and nourishing the viscera. Doing more exercise in spring can enhance immunity and disease resistance, help people get fewer diseases such as flu in a year, and make people think quickly and not be tired easily. People can choose outdoor activities that suit them according to their age and physical condition.

5. Prevent sleepiness in spring

The sun is shining in spring, but many people feel sleepy, tired and dizzy and can't get up in the morning. This phenomenon is often called "spring sleep". Sleepiness in spring is caused by seasonal differences in internal circulation. In spring, the climate gets warmer, the skin blood vessels relax, the function of the circulatory system is enhanced, the blood supply to the skin tip increases, sweat secretion increases, and the load of various organs increases, so that the blood supplied to the brain is relatively reduced, and the oxygen in the brain will feel insufficient accordingly, thus feeling sleepy and weak.

How to reduce and prevent "Spring Sleepiness"? First, we must ensure adequate sleep; Second, we must overcome negative and lazy thoughts and emotions; Third, we should take an active part in exercise.

6. Health care and disease prevention

Spring is warm and windy, suitable for the reproduction of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms, and prone to influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, meningitis, scarlet fever, mumps, viral myocarditis, etc., so we must pay attention to personal hygiene. Wash and dry clothes and quilts frequently, remove pests, open windows for ventilation, and go to crowded public places less to avoid infection.

Characteristics of solar terms in vernal equinox

1, divided equally between day and night

At the vernal equinox, the sun shines directly on the equator, so the length of day and night in the northern and southern hemispheres is the same, and drinking during the day and drinking at night is 12 hours. There will only be vernal equinox and autumn equinox in a year.

2. Average distribution season

Another reason for the origin of the name vernal equinox is that it divides spring equally. In ancient times, beginning of spring and Changxia were used as spring, and the vernal equinox happened to be in the middle of three months in spring, which just split the spring in two.

3. A lot of rain

As soon as the vernal equinox arrives, the rainfall in various places increases obviously, and the temperature in many places in China exceeds 10 degrees, which is the spring temperature defined by climatology. After the spring equinox solar terms, the climate is mild, the rain is abundant and the sun is shining. In most areas, winter crops enter the spring growth stage, which is also the sowing time of early rice, so the spring equinox is still an important season for farming.