What are the customs and activities in early spring?

The customs in beginning of spring season include welcoming the spring, beating the spring cattle, biting the spring and grabbing the spring.

Spring Festival is an important activity in spring, which is held on the day before spring. In ancient times, the ceremony of welcoming spring was very grand, and people attached great importance to this custom. Before beginning of spring, the villagers made a cow out of clay, which was called a spring cow. On the day when spring begins, people will whip the cattle in spring and pray for good weather and good harvest in the coming year.

When I was in beginning of spring, there was a folk custom of eating radish, called biting spring. When I was in Beijing and beginning of spring, I wanted to eat spring cakes, also called biting spring. After the cow or paper cow is broken, people will grab these clods or pieces of paper. Because these can bring good luck. This kind of behavior is called "grabbing spring".

Introduction to beginning of spring

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. Standing means "start". Spring represents warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches longitude 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, and the festival will be held from February 3 to 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the era of cadres and branches, silver moon is spring, beginning of spring is the beginning of a year, and beginning of spring is the beginning of everything, which means all self-renewal, which means the beginning of a new cycle.

Beginning of spring marks the end of the winter when everything is hidden and begins to enter the warm and sunny spring. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. As far as beginning of spring is concerned, you can obviously feel the breath of early spring in the Tropic of Cancer (Huangchi Jiao Jiao) and its south.