What is the date of early spring this year?

The solar term in beginning of spring in 2022 is 4: 50: 36 on February 4, 2022.

Beginning of spring, also known as the First Month Festival, New Year Festival, New Year Festival and New Year Festival, is the first of the 24 solar terms. Standing is the beginning, and spring represents warmth and growth. When the sun reaches 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, which is celebrated every year from February 3 to 5 in the Gregorian calendar. Folk activities in the spring include worshipping God and ancestors, receiving blessings and praying for the New Year. The most striking feature of nature is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. In the traditional concept, beginning of spring has auspicious significance.

In the Spring and Autumn Annals written by Lu at the end of the Warring States Period, there are eight solar terms in December, including beginning of spring, Spring Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Spring Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice. These eight solar terms are the most important of the twenty-four solar terms. They indicate the change of seasons and clearly divide the four seasons of the year. Spring reaches Changxia before beginning of spring, summer reaches Changxia before beginning of autumn, autumn reaches beginning of winter before beginning of autumn and winter reaches beginning of spring before beginning of winter.

Introduction of 24 solar terms:

Twenty-four solar terms refer to the special festivals that express seasons, phenology, climate change and establish December in the trunk and branch calendars, which were used to guide agriculture in the Han Dynasty. Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, and are the knowledge system formed by ancient ancestors following the farming season and understanding the changing laws of seasons, climate and phenology in a year by observing the movement of celestial bodies.

Twenty-four solar terms divide the sun's annual trajectory into 24 equal parts, each of which is a solar term, starting from the beginning of spring and ending in the great cold, reflecting the influence of the sun on the earth. After historical development, the lunar calendar absorbed the solar terms of the dry calendar as a supplement to the calendar, and adjusted it to conform to the tropic year by leap method, forming a combined calendar of yin and yang, and the 24 solar terms became an important part of the lunar calendar.