What customs and activities do people have at the vernal equinox?

After the vernal equinox, people went out one after another and began to go for an outing. At this time, the fresh air rises and the breeze floats, which is most suitable for flying kites. You can fly a kite to exercise your muscles and eliminate "spring sleep" and "depression".

Step 2 eat spring vegetables

"eat spring vegetables at the vernal equinox" "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". Spring vegetables collected on the day of the vernal equinox are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup".

Step 3 send spring cattle

The vernal equinox is coming soon, and there will be a picture of spring cattle delivered door to door. The picture is printed with red paper or yellow paper on the lunar solar terms all the year round, and also printed with farmers' ploughing patterns, which is called "Spring Cattle Map".

Step 4 stick the sparrow's mouth

On the vernal equinox, local people are used to having a holiday. Every family should eat dumplings. Ten, twenty or thirty dumplings that don't need to be wrapped are cooked, and a thin bamboo fork is placed on the outdoor ridge beside the field, which is called sticking the sparrow's mouth without destroying crops.

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festival

The vernal equinox is also a traditional festival to worship the sun. In other words, on the vernal equinox, we should worship the sun and thank the sun for giving this ritual energy and sunshine to the earth and promoting the growth of all things on earth. So in ancient times, we have always inherited the habit of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox and the moon at the autumn equinox.