Legends about spring

Beginning of spring, also known as Da Chun, is a solar term that returns to the earth in spring. It is one of the 24 solar terms.

Beginning of spring is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. In the Zhou Dynasty, on this day, the son of heaven personally led Sangong to wait until the eastern suburbs to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people whipped spring cattle and sent Koharu cattle to persuade farmers to plough in spring and pray for a bumper harvest. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been eating green vegetables, welcoming local cattle, bathing silkworm eggs and drinking spring tea, which have a strong Han folk custom and local flavor.

Legend: Playing a small gong

In the old days, unemployed people in Hunan beat gongs and bamboo boards around the Spring Festival, singing lyrics and asking for money from house to house, which was called playing spring.

During the Spring Festival, spring gongs and drums can be heard everywhere in the countryside, accompanied by rhythmic lyrics. It turns out that someone is playing in spring.

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a magistrate. In the spring of his first year in office, the climate was very cold and the time was very cold. Although it has been a month in beginning of spring, the flowers and trees have not sprouted yet. The county magistrate thought this was not a good sign. He was anxious to see the buds of trees, grass and flowers. So he immediately ordered people to look for budding branches and give them to the judge. Whoever delivers early will be rewarded. The next day, two men, one surnamed Wu and the other surnamed Zhou, found some sprouted poplars and sent them to the magistrate's yamen. When the magistrate saw it, he was naturally overjoyed and thought it was good luck. Wu and Zhou were rewarded by the magistrate. The magistrate asked them both to report early next spring. It happened that the next year, due to the warm winter, on the first day of the first month in early spring, Zhou and Wu came to the magistrate's yamen with willows in bud, gongs and drums. They beat gongs and drums and sang some beautiful and auspicious flattery they made up. The county magistrate was overjoyed and gave Zhou and Wu a double reward. In this way, the news that Zhou and Wu were rewarded reached the ears of other ordinary people. In the coming year, others will follow the example of Zhou and Wu and go to yamen in droves to announce the spring. When the magistrate saw so many people coming, he never gave his money to the people again. The county magistrate said to the public, "It is a great event to announce the spring. A year's plan lies in spring, and it is everyone's blessing to return to the earth early. You can worship Wu and Tuesday as your teacher and go to the villagers' homes to announce spring. From now on, our government will hold a grand Spring Festival at the beginning of spring to enjoy the people. " Since then, the custom of playing spring has been formed in various places.

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