What did beginning of spring stand for before the Spring Festival?

Beginning of spring doesn't celebrate the Spring Festival, or beginning of spring in the lunar calendar is before the Spring Festival. Generally speaking, we all arrive in beginning of spring after the Spring Festival. Such a year is also what we often call a year without spring, an widowed year.

"No spring year" refers to a year without beginning of spring in the lunar calendar. In order to adapt to the changes of cold and summer, the ancients added seven leap months every 19 years in the lunar calendar, resulting in no beginning of spring for seven years in 19 years.

There is a popular folk saying that "I am not suitable for marriage without spring", but there is no scientific basis. For example, there was no spring in year of the snake in 2005, 2008, 20 10, and 20 13. According to the China lunar calendar, the 21st day of the twelfth month of the Year of the Ox is also beginning of spring, that is, February 4th of 20 10.

Significance of beginning of spring: beginning of spring, like Changchun, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter, is a solar term reflecting the changes of the four seasons. 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.

After beginning of spring, the sun be the spirit rises and everything forms. In line with the characteristics of spring, we should pay attention to protecting yang in health preservation.