What is the introduction of spring cattle?

1, the spring cow is a mud cow with Sang Mu as the skeleton and spring mud as the body. It is four feet high and eight feet long. There is a folk custom of beating spring cattle in the spring. It means that winter has passed, and it is necessary to urge cattle to work in the fields, which means praying for a bumper harvest.

2. beginning of spring, also known as Da Chun, is the first solar term in spring among the 24 solar terms and one of the traditional festivals in China. Spring is the time of year. The ancients attached great importance to the arrival of spring, because it is the beginning of a year, which means that people can farm and harvest food, which is the basis for people to obtain the source of survival.

3. As early as thousands of years ago in beginning of spring, King Zhou would take Sangong and Jiuqing to Tanobei in the suburbs to hold a sacrificial ceremony to welcome the Spring Festival. Gao Cheng's "Jiyuan Things" records: "The Duke of Zhou began to make beginning of spring native cattle, and unearthed them to show the farming time." During this period, Duke Zhou was a spring cow, expressing his intention to persuade farming.

The custom of whipping spring cattle became popular in Han dynasty, which expressed everyone's desire for a bumper harvest. On the morning of the day when spring begins, civil and military officials will put on police tactical unit, plant a blue flag and send cattle outside the city gate. Every official will whip the cow to welcome the spring.

5. "Kyoto Customs" also says that "the wild god is located in the east and the spring cow is located in the west." There is a memorial tablet of Spring God in the east and a native cow in the west. After the sacrifice to the spring god, "all the servants burned it, so it was called' playing spring'." This is why beginning of spring is called "Da Chun".

6. In the end, everyone broke off the spring cattle and took them home piece by piece, indicating that there would be a bumper harvest at home.