Vernal equinox solar terms custom

The customs of the spring equinox and solar terms are: eating spring vegetables, laying eggs and sending spring cattle.

1, eat spring vegetables

In the past, there was an unbroken custom on April 1st, called eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox. Spring vegetable is a kind of wild amaranth, which the villagers call Hao Chunbi. On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually cooked with fish fillets at home, which is called spring soup.

2, vertical eggs

Every spring equinox, thousands of people in Qian Qian do vertical egg tests all over the world. At present, it is difficult to verify how this China custom became a world game. However, the game is simple and interesting: choose a smooth and symmetrical fresh egg that has just been born for four or five days, gently stand it up and put it on the table.

Step 3 send spring cattle

The vernal equinox is coming soon, and there will be a picture of spring cattle delivered door to door. The picture is printed with red paper or yellow paper on the lunar solar terms all the year round, and also printed with farmers' farming patterns, which is called the Spring Cattle Map. The people who send pictures are folk singers, who mainly say things like spring ploughing and auspiciousness that are not against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they say whatever they see until the owner is happy to give money.

The significance of vernal equinox

On the vernal equinox, the sun shines directly on the equator, which is almost equal to the length of day and night in the world, that is, the time of day and night is equal, which is 12 hour. At this time, after half a year of darkness, the North Pole saw the sunshine for the first time on this day, and the corresponding South Pole will also bid farewell to the sunshine on this day. If the period from the beginning of spring to the long summer is regarded as spring, then the vernal equinox is the midpoint of spring, which just divides spring equally.

It is exactly ninety days from beginning of spring to Changchun, and the vernal equinox is divided into two, hence the name vernal equinox. The vernal equinox is the midpoint of 90 days in spring. On this day, the sun shines directly at the equator of the earth, and the world is almost as long as day and night. Since then, the direct point of the sun has continued to move northward, so the vernal equinox is also called the rising equinox. In ancient times, it was also called Japan-China, day and night, and mid-spring moon.

Since then, the days have been longer than the nights in all parts of the northern hemisphere, but the opposite is true in the southern hemisphere. In terms of climate, it also has obvious characteristics. In addition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Northeast China, Northwest China and North China, China has entered a beautiful spring. The significance of the vernal equinox, first, refers to the equal division of day and night, each with 12 hours.