When is spring break?

Playing spring is the common name of beginning of spring, and it is the solar term of spring returning to the earth. Therefore, the spring break on 202 1 is the beginning of spring. It's 2021February 3 at 22: 58: 39.

Beginning of spring is the 1 solar term every year, and the calendar year of the main branch begins on this day. Beginning of spring usually falls between February 3rd and 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year. Beginning of spring, "Li" means beginning, and beginning of spring is the beginning of spring. "Yang and thorns make everything spring." There are three seasons in beginning of spring: the east wind thaws; The stinger began to vibrate; Fish lose ice.

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. Beginning of spring is divided from astronomy, that is, when the sun reaches longitude 3 15.

Beginning of spring is one of the important traditional festivals in China. "Li" means "start". Since the Qin Dynasty, China has always regarded beginning of spring as the beginning of the Meng Chun season. The so-called "a year's plan lies in spring", spring is full of flowers, birds and flowers are fragrant; Spring is growth, cultivation and sowing.

It has been more than 3,000 years since beginning of spring celebrated the Spring Festival, and China attaches great importance to the Spring Festival from the official to the folk. When he was in beginning of spring, Emperor Tiandi personally led three officials and nine ministers, governors and doctors to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and pray for a bumper harvest. When you come back, you should reward the ministers and make a Bude order to show your kindness to the people. This kind of activity has influenced the common people and made it a national Spring Festival activity for generations.

Beginning of spring, as a festival, existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, there were eight festivals in a year, namely beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn, beginning of winter, Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. Twenty-four solar terms were recorded only in the Book of Rites and the Monthly Order by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty and the Xunzi of Tian Zi in Huainan.

Before the Han Dynasty, the calendar had been changed many times. At that time, beginning of spring among the 24 solar terms was designated as the Spring Festival, which meant that spring began. This title lasted for more than 2000 years, until 19 13, when the national government officially issued a document, making it clear that the first day of the first month of the first month of each year was the Spring Festival.

Since then, beginning of spring has only existed as one of the 24 solar terms, and it has been passed down to this day.

The custom of beginning of spring

Beginning of spring is also called "Da Chun" and "Bite Spring", and also called "Embrace Spring". Like many festivals, this festival has many folk customs, including celebrations and activities to welcome spring, the custom of "shooting cows" in spring, and the custom of eating spring cakes, spring vegetables and radishes.

According to historical documents, the Spring Festival ceremonies in China were all grand. At this time, beginning of spring has surpassed the function of only marking festivals and climate in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, and has been regarded as a festival, so many activities and folk customs around beginning of spring have evolved in history, such as "Spring Baby", "Spring Whip", "Spring Roll", "Playing Spring", "Spring Wine" and "Spring Cattle".

Biting spring refers to the custom of eating spring plates, spring cakes, spring rolls and radishes every day in the early spring, and the word "biting" reveals many seasonal food customs. Spring cake is a dish filled with vegetables, fruits and cake bait to feed relatives and friends or eat, which is called spring cake.