Why does beginning of spring eat spring rolls?

With the passage of time, people seem to forget and ignore the traditional solar terms. Even though it is close to the Spring Festival, they still don't feel any flavor of the New Year. It seems that the tradition of China has been forgotten by the world, but beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, and it cannot be forgotten. 20 18 February 4th, beginning of spring. So what are the customs of spring?

1, beginning of spring eats spring rolls to bite the spring.

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, which falls around February 4th every year. In people's minds, beginning of spring means the arrival of warmth, the growth of everything and the sowing of farmers. On the day when spring begins, people have the custom of eating spring cakes and spring rolls. In Guanzhong Ji written by Pan Yue in Jin Dynasty, it is recorded that "(Tang people) make spring cakes in early spring and wrap them with Artemisia annua, leek and Polygonum hydropiper buds." 20 18 beginning of spring time: Sunday, February 4th, 20 18.

In fact, the custom of eating spring rolls in beginning of spring originated from the Tang Dynasty, also known as "biting spring". Because at the beginning of spring, when spring returned to the earth, everything revived and all kinds of vegetables sprouted, people began to try very early. The ancients wrapped seasonal vegetables in dough, rolled them into rolls, steamed or fried them, and named them spring rolls, which meant that the grain was abundant. When the dough is round, it means a round family, and the stuffing of celery and leek means that people work harder and live longer.

When beginning of spring comes, you might as well eat spring rolls at home, which can strengthen your stomach, refresh yourself and taste the taste of spring. Beginning of spring eats spring rolls, which is a good wish for "a year's plan lies in spring". Spring rolls are a kind of holiday food that is often eaten at the beginning of spring. This kind of food is fried in thin leather bags. The specific production method is as follows: mix some flour into paste, put it on a frying pan, slowly burn it with low fire, and turn the frying pan from time to time to make a spring roll skin as thin as cicada's wings, then wrap it with stuffing, roll it into a long tube about two inches long, stick batter on both ends, and fry it in oil slick until it is crisp outside and tender inside, with good color and fragrance. Wheat flour is generally used for spring roll skin, and egg skin and tofu skin are also useful.

How to recommend a spring roll;

Raw materials: spring rolls, shepherd's purse, dried bean curd, carrots, winter bamboo shoots, wet starch and tomato sauce;

Exercise:

1, washed shepherd's purse, dried bean curd, carrot and winter bamboo shoots and diced for later use;

2, pour the right amount of oil into the pot to heat, add dried tofu, carrots, winter bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, stir fry out of the pot;

3. Put the spring cake skin on the chopping board, put the stuffing on it, roll it up, fold it in half at both ends, and finally roll it into a small rectangular bag about two inches, six minutes long and eight minutes wide, and finally seal it with wet starch;

4. Pour the oil into the pot and cook until it is 70% mature. When the spring is involved in the pot, it will be turned constantly with chopsticks. About two minutes later, golden yellow, picked up and loaded;

5. Bake a plate of shepherd's purse spring rolls with crisp outside and tender inside and excellent taste. It can be served with sweet noodle sauce and tomato sauce.

Put this hot spring roll in your mouth with chopsticks and taste it carefully. At that time, lips and teeth, the tip of the tongue and your heart must smell of warm spring. Beginning of spring is coming, and my family and I are eating fried spring rolls in the hot air. It is really warm and enjoyable.

2. What are the customs in beginning of spring?

winter jasmine

Spring Festival is an important activity that begins in spring, and it must be prepared and rehearsed in advance, commonly known as spring performance.

The Spring Festival was held the day before beginning of spring, with the aim of bringing back spring and Ju Mang. In the Spring Festival, there is a spring official, a beggar or a prostitute, who announces the arrival of beginning of spring. In the past, there were pictures of Mang God and Spring Cattle in the imperial calendar every year. In Dianshizhai Pictorial in the late Qing Dynasty, "The tortoise reported spring" and "The bronze drum drove away the epidemic" were both important activities that began in the Spring Festival at that time.

offer sacrifices to ancestors

In many areas, beginning of spring offered sacrifices to his ancestors. For example, Guangdong's "Xin 'an County Records" says: "People are related to ancestral temples. "

When I was in beginning of spring, the food for my ancestors was also very special. Records in Ruyang County, Henan Province: "Have a spring banquet, spit spring cakes and recommend pears."

"Linying County Records" called "biting spring" as the beginning of offering sacrifices to spring.

Yao Chun

Beginning of spring also has its own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes and spiced dishes. In the south, eating spring rolls is popular, and there are many vendors selling spring rolls in the market. There are two points worth noting here: first, I used to think that biting spring meant eating radish, but actually it also included eating spring cakes; Second, the so-called begging for spring means welcoming the spring. Why eat radish? Generally speaking, it can solve the spring sleep. 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.

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

Jesus, 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 a face. He abides by the rules and is in charge of 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. "Kyoto Customs" written by Jean Lian in the Qing Dynasty said: "The day before the spring ceremony, the ox god entered the house and the reed shed stood up. There are thousands of mountain gods in the east and west, and their images are gorgeous, which are considerable for both men and women. When they arrived in early spring, the servants were burned to death, so it was called the spring battle. " Then, people take the fragments of the spring cattle home as good luck.

The day before beginning of spring, Zhejiang Province had a Spring Festival. Beginning of spring carried Ju Mang to the mountain outside the city the day before, and at the same time offered sacrifices to Tai Sui. There are many activities when welcoming God, such as preaching in large classes, raising pavilions, local operas, yangko and shooting cows. After being carried from the countryside to the city, people gather in the streets to compete for food, which is called watching the Spring Festival. 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. In other areas, New Year pictures such as "Spring Breeze" are posted. Around Guangzhou and beginning of spring, people used drums to drive away the plague and pray for peace.

Whip spring cattle

Whipping spring cattle, also known as whipping earth cattle, originated earlier and has been preserved to this day. However, it was changed to spring in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it became popular. Especially after Song Renzong promulgated the Classic of whipping earth cattle, the custom of whipping earth cattle spread more widely and became an important part of folk culture. 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. When molding spring cattle, it is often necessary to stuff whole grains into the stomach. When the cow was smashed, the grain flowed out. People smiled and picked up the grain and put it back in their barn, indicating that the barn was full of grain. In addition, there are tea-picking activities to worship spring cattle and turtle activities to announce the arrival of spring in Hubei. Nowadays, some rural areas still have the custom of "whipping spring cattle".

Spring cattle in Zhejiang province have their own characteristics. When welcoming the spring cows, kowtow to the spring cows in turn. After the worship, everyone swarmed, smashed the spring cattle, snatched the soil from them and scattered it in the cowshed. It can be seen that whipping spring cattle is still a kind of breeding witchcraft, that is, spring cattle soil after the Spring Festival can promote cattle reproduction by being scattered in the cowshed.

In the spring, folk artists will also make many small mud cows, called "spring cows", and send them to every household, called "seeing off the spring". In some places, there is a yellow paper with a picture of a spring cow on the wall. Yellow stands for land, and spring cattle stands for farming, commonly known as "Spring Cattle Map". Later, people calculated the time of beginning of spring according to the calendar and displayed it on the Spring Cattle Map to help farmers understand the morning and evening of beginning of spring.

Avoid spring

In traditional folklore, when you come to beginning of spring, you should avoid spring. Because the climate in beginning of spring has begun to change, the new aura will have a negative impact on some people, and even worse, it will affect the luck of a year, so the custom of avoiding spring has emerged. In the folk, different places have different customs and taboos, which also extends a variety of methods and customs to avoid spring. The customs left over from tradition should not be disputed every day since the beginning of spring, but we must meet this day harmoniously and calmly. In some local customs, it is not appropriate to move, visit seriously ill patients and attend funerals on the day of Tibetan spring, so as not to provoke bad luck and affect the luck of the whole year.

"Hiding from spring" is actually "hiding from old age", and most people who are old need to hide from spring. For example, on 20 15, beginning of spring officially entered the Year of the Sheep at11:59 A.M. Mythically speaking, this is the official retirement of General Yang Xianda, the traditional star of the Year of the Horse, and the official retirement of General Yang Xianda, the traditional star of the Year of the Sheep. According to folklore, people who commit tai sui, such as sheep, cows, rats and dogs, must "avoid spring" in order to avoid confrontation with Tai sui in the Year of the Sheep and ease the relationship with Tai sui Xing Jun, so their luck is more favorable every year.

_ Spring

This traditional ceremony of beginning of spring going too far is called "_ Spring". "_ Spring" is a very old custom of the Chinese nation. According to historical records, it was popular among the people as early as the pre-Qin period. On the day of beginning of spring, the yang will emerge from the ground. Setting off firecrackers and burning camphor tree branches can dispel yin, disperse yang and help yang grow, which means exorcising evil spirits and welcoming auspiciousness, while children's excesses contain good wishes for safe growth. After the "_ Spring" ceremony, children will eat "spring tea", which is made of six kinds of ingredients such as red beans, red dates, longan, dried tangerine peel, sweet-scented osmanthus and brown sugar. According to folk custom, after beginning of spring, children will eat "spring tea" when they are one year old. In the new year, they not only pray for a rich life, but also bless their healthy growth, peace and good luck.

Worship tai sui

Xuanyigong, the general Taoist temple in Taiwan Province Province, pointed out that there were sixty Jiazi gods in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Because of the close relationship between the prince and Jiazi, from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, the sixty Jiazi gods were replaced by the sixty prince gods, becoming the sixty princes in temples with Prince Anfeng all over the country.

Tai sui culture has been integrated with the eight-character theory of numerology, geomantic omen and zodiac since ancient times. For example, Yuan Hai Zi Ping in the Song Dynasty recorded that Tai Sui was the son of heaven in the middle of the year, so impossible crime committed a fierce crime. The Ming Dynasty's "Three Children's Singing Meeting" said: "It's really too old, and it's also called the toe-turning evil spirit. If you want the Universiade to coincide with Tai Sui, your year will be auspicious; If you punish and break the harm, you will fight fiercely with Tai Sui. " It is auspicious to be in harmony with Tai Sui, but it is fierce on the contrary. He also said: "People who are too old are the masters of the year and the leaders of the gods. There is a disaster in the old age, and the punishment breaks the evil spirits. If you are still jealous of the gods, it is difficult to take off. " Yuan Shushan, a fortune teller in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, said, "A husband is too old, supreme and not evil." In Jiangnan, there is also the custom of being prepared for danger in times of peace, mainly to improve the feng shui at home. As the saying goes, "down-to-earth" is more common in books such as Feng Shui. Because the Han people are afraid of the disaster of Tai Sui, when Tai Sui runs to the position of a certain zodiac, it belongs to the zodiac and its relative zodiac, and it is not good for them to be afraid of offending Tai Sui, so it is convenient to worship the Tai Sui God of that year to pray for disaster relief. This activity is called An Taisui.

Every year, when the spring day officially begins, spring gods, spring cows, mang gods and Tai Sui are sacrificed in the Spring Festival. People who value beginning of spring will also worship Tai Sui. For example, Zhejiang carried Ju Mang to the mountain outside the city the day before the spring, and at the same time offered sacrifices to Tai Sui. Tai sui is an old god, who sits for one year and is in charge of the rest of the year, so the people also offer more sacrifices. The fields of artistic mathematics such as the Eight-character Feng Shui also think it is necessary for beginning of spring to worship Tai Sui, and there are many reports in the media every year. Of course, people will also worship Tai Sui on the first day, the eighth day and the fifteenth day of the first month.

Occupy qi

Beginning of spring is the first solar term among the 20 solar terms, and the belief of occupying qi was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period. Ying Da Shu by Confucius: "The Spring and Autumn Equinox, the winter and summer solstice, the beginning of beginning of spring's long summer, and the end of beginning of autumn's beginning of winter, all these eight solar terms will go to the observatory and write out the clouds and things you see. If there is a cloud difference, it is a demon of the old times, and it will be tested later. People who write books are prepared for this. " Therefore, in beginning of spring during the Spring and Autumn Period, folk solar terms, climbing and divination have begun to form a custom.

People regard that day and that hour in beginning of spring as the beginning of a year's farming. It is generally believed that beginning of spring should be sunny instead of cloudy. If the weather is fine, it means that the next year will be a bumper year, with peace and prosperity and favorable weather; If it is cloudy or rainy, it means that the coming year will not be smooth and the crops will not have a good harvest. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "sunny is everything, and cloudy is everything." This is a folk saying.

In addition, in ancient China, there was a method to predict the agricultural harvest in the new year from beginning of spring. In the ancient book, the song "Good or bad luck in beginning of spring" said: "Wealth is in the sky, and ten years are related, but when we look at beginning of spring Day, Party A and Party B have a bumper year, while Party B has a drought, and Wuji is good at harvesting the fields, and with Ma Qinqin, the water meets the sky." In other words, we can see the quality of agricultural harvest this year from the dryness of columns in beginning of spring. In the traditional farming society, the quality of agricultural harvest determines the quality of this year. Specifically: if the sun column of beginning of spring Day is a tree, this year is a bumper harvest year; And if it is C fire and Ding Huo, there may be drought; If it is bentonite or native soil, it also has a good harvest; If it is Geng Jin and Jin Xin, it is also a bumper harvest year, and people are not allowed to be idle; But if it is stagnant water or accumulated water, there may be a big flood.

Spring outing announces spring.

After celebrating the good news of the Spring Festival, we started our spring trip. The gongs and drums teams and honor guards of the villages and clubs walked in front, and the huge statue of spring cattle carried by four or eight people walked behind. Walking and jumping, gongs and drums are loud and firecrackers are ringing. The parade was huge and spectacular. Go through villages, streets and alleys.

After entering the spring outing field (review field), the spring outing team swam around the field twice, and then lined up to stand on the arranged field. At this time, the magistrate of a county was respectfully invited to sit in the spring shed and held a ceremony to announce that spring had arrived. According to the traditional custom, there is a newspaper station, wearing strange clothes and holding a red and yellow flag. The first newspaper on the stage-"Good weather", the masses echoed in unison; The second newspaper, The Harvest of Grains, was echoed by the masses. The third newspaper, Peace and Prosperity, was echoed by the masses again. Everyone who comes to the newspaper has a reward.

Spring sacrifice

The Spring Club is a day of offering sacrifices to the land gods in ancient spring. The Zhou Dynasty was the first day of junior high school, and most of them were held on the fifth day after beginning of spring. "The Book of Rites of Mingtang": "It's summer _, autumn flavor, winter sincerity, spring society, autumn province, and then big wax, offering sacrifices to the heavenly son." Before the Han dynasty, there were only spring festivals, and after the Han dynasty, there were spring festivals and autumn festivals, which were held around the vernal equinox and autumn equinox. Social day is mainly about offering sacrifices to gods, and it also means gathering with neighbors. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Zonggu wrote Chronicle of Jingchu Age: "On the social day, the neighborhood became a comprehensive society, offering sacrifices to mash, living under a tree, offering sacrifices to the gods first, and then celebrating the past." Wang Jia, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Society Day": "Sang Zheying leaves the Spring Society and everyone is intoxicated." It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to offering sacrifices to the country, and later it became a custom passed down to later generations and became a sacrificial activity, which implied the multiplication of all things on the earth, praying and offering sacrifices, so as to make the six animals flourish and the grain harvest plentiful.

Tieyichun calligraphy and painting

Spring is coming, and it is the custom of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty to stick Yichun calligraphy and painting on the door wall. According to records, at the beginning of spring, Chang 'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted calligraphy and painting on their doors, with the words "Yichun" and "Yichun painting" on them. Such as "Spring Festival", "Happy Spring", "Beautiful Spring" and "Blooming in Spring". Others put messages of wishes on the lintel to express their wish to welcome the spring. People who can draw often draw wintersweet on the lintel.

Dai Chun chicken

Dai Chun Chicken is an ancient custom of Tongchuan people in Shaanxi Province. Every year on beginning of spring Day, the mother will make a 3 cm long cock out of cloth and sew it on the child's hat to express her wishes for the "spring chicken". Women hang beans on horns with thread, or tear them off cows with beans, thinking that this will save children from measles. The former is called "barnyard grass rash" and the latter is called "scattered rash".

Peiyanzi

Wearing swallows is an ancient custom of people in Chang 'an and Guanzhong areas. At the beginning of every spring, people like to wear "swallows" cut with colored silk on their chests. This custom began in the Tang Dynasty and is still popular in rural areas. Because the swallow is the messenger of spring and a symbol of happiness and good luck. So many wealthy families build bird's nests in the middle of their own halls or under the eaves. As long as you can put a small pad under the purlin or on the wall of the eaves, swallows can build their own nests. Swallows are migratory birds. They fly to the north in spring and to the south in autumn. "Don't eat your millet, don't eat your millet, just hold a nest of sons in your house." Therefore, Xiangyang people like to stay in their quadrangles and provoke swallows to thrive. In early spring every year, people like to wear "swallows", especially children. Their parents are ready for them. They put them on their chests and danced with their hands and feet, jumping with joy and joy.

Diao chunsui

Hanging spring ear is a traditional custom, which spreads in Chengcheng area of Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of each spring, women weave tassels with various colors of cloth, or wind colored threads into various forms of "ears of wheat". Then it can be hung on children or young people, and it can also be hung on animals such as donkeys, horses, cows, etc., in order to wish a good weather and a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Single stick on the wall, used to suppress antivirus scorpions. Such as writing: "Grain Rain in mid-March, Shi Tian came to the door. Holding a seven-star sword, slay the scorpion essence. " People in Baishui County have similar activities in Grain Rain Festival, such as writing on a yellow form: "Grain Rain Day, Grain Rain Morning, invited by General Grain Rain. Three cups of tea and three rounds of wine, the scorpion immediately turned into dust. " Used to drive away scorpions. People from Xixiang, Shaanxi, beat the wall with willow branches at dawn every year in Grain Rain to drive away scorpions.

Perhaps many people have forgotten the custom of beginning of spring, but beginning of spring is to send winter to welcome the spring. In fact, many people will remember that the weather will get warmer after winter, which is really good news for us. But besides knowing this, I should also follow the tradition, regain the traditional customs and attach importance to the solar terms in beginning of spring.