Folk customs in early spring

1. Bite spring "beginning of spring" is a day when China people are used to eating radish, ginger, onion and bread, which is called "bite spring". However, different local customs have different manifestations, and eating spring rolls is popular in the south. On the day of "beginning of spring", another food that people in China eat is radish. Because radish is spicy, it takes the meaning of "bite the grass roots and do anything" from the ancients.

Welcome spring

It is also a traditional custom to welcome spring at the beginning of spring. In the old custom of beginning of spring, the day before, two artists put on ribbons and shouted "Spring is coming" along the street, which is the traditional "Spring Newspaper". After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.

Play with the spring

To "spring" means to "whip the spring cattle" to "urge the ploughing". Spring cattle can be divided into paper cattle and mud cattle. The man pretending to be a headstrong god whipped the spring cow three times with a whip wrapped in HongLing, which means "whipping the spring cow", which means to drive away the laziness of the spring cow and urge people to plant the land quickly when spring returns to the earth.