The origin and custom of solar terms in beginning of spring

Since the Qin Dynasty, China has always regarded beginning of spring as the beginning of spring. Beginning of spring has the custom of farming and eating spring cakes and vegetables.

Beginning of spring is one of the important traditional solar terms of the Han nationality. "Li" means "start". Since the Qin Dynasty, China has always regarded beginning of spring as the beginning of spring. Beginning of spring is divided from astronomy, with spring flowers and flowers; Spring is growth, cultivation and sowing. The period from the beginning of the Spring Festival to the long summer is called spring.

The customs in beginning of spring season mainly include ancestor worship, praying for the New Year, exorcising evil spirits, getting rid of the old and replacing the new, welcoming the spring, stepping in the spring, biting the spring, spring cakes, spring plates, spring cattle and spring rolls. After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing. On the day of spring, folk artists will make many small mud cows, called "spring cows", and send them to every household, called "seeing off the spring". In some places, there is a yellow paper with a picture of spring cattle on the wall. Yellow stands for land, and spring cattle stands for farming.

Solar term phenomenon

The geographical boundary of "beginning of spring" in the "Twenty-four Solar Terms" is on the line from Guilin, Guangxi to Ganzhou, Jiangxi. When beginning of spring celebrates festivals, the area south of this line already has the breath of spring. Beginning of spring is a slightly turning solar term. This turning point is not obvious in the whole country. However, after beginning of spring, the days are getting longer and longer, which means that the coldest period has basically passed, the weather is getting warmer and everything is gradually recovering.

South of Lingnan, the breath of early spring has come to my face; And in the north, beginning of spring, more can only be said to be the prelude to spring, and did not enter the spring.