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What are the customs and activities of solar terms in beginning of spring?

Beginning of spring solar festival custom activities:

The Chronicle of Yanjing records: "Spring is beginning of spring, mostly in the first month. On the first day in beginning of spring, officials from Shuntianfu welcomed the spring in a spring field outside Dongzhimen.

According to the Book of Rites, during the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor beginning of spring led three officials and nine ministers to greet the Spring Festival in the eastern suburbs, offering sacrifices to Tai Hao and Mang God and praying for a bumper harvest in agriculture.

Because whipping the spring cattle is of sacrificial significance, in Shandong and other places, there was a custom of breaking the local cattle and competing for them, which was called grabbing the spring.