Beginning of spring eats jiaozi or glutinous rice balls.

Northerners eat jiaozi, while southerners eat glutinous rice balls.

Beginning of spring, like Changsha, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter, is a solar term reflecting seasonal changes. Beginning of spring is a slightly turning solar term. Although this turning point is not obvious, the trend is that the weather begins to pick up, the coldest period is basically over, and people begin to smell the breath of early spring.

According to the four climatic seasons, Tomb-Sweeping Day in the northeast and northwest is in spring, the vernal equinox in North China is in spring, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are in spring before and after the earthquake, and the rain in the southwest is in spring. Only beginning of spring solar terms in South China can be regarded as beginning of spring.

Meteorological change

The dividing line between winter and spring in beginning of spring and China (when the average temperature reaches 65,438+00 degrees Celsius for five consecutive days, it is regarded as spring), from Guilin, Guangxi to Ganzhou, Jiangxi. In the area south of this line, beginning of spring sometimes smells like spring, but 93% of the land in China is still winter, while in Heilongjiang, it often welcomes spring in the long summer, Grain Rain. The so-called beginning of spring is just a "conception".

Beginning of spring, the symbol determined in ancient times is the thawing of the east wind; The sign of the beginning of winter is that water begins to freeze. So the ancients used freezing and thawing to define winter and spring. However, according to modern meteorological standards, beginning of spring is ahead of schedule, but it is actually welcoming the Spring Festival. In spring, the temperature began to rise, and sunshine and rainfall began to increase.

But for most parts of the country, this is just a prelude to spring. Beginning of spring ranks third in cold degree among all solar terms. According to the seasonal standard of meteorology, 93% of China is still in winter.