About playing spring. What does this mean? Why have sex? Why do you want to eat radish in spring?

Playing spring is the common name of beginning of spring, and it is the solar term of spring returning to the earth. This is the first of the 24 solar terms.

This is a traditional festival in China and Zhou Dynasty. On this day, the son of heaven led the three gongs and nine ladies to worship spring in the eastern suburbs. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, cattle in spring were whipped and sent away to persuade farmers to plow their fields and pray for a bumper harvest. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been eating vegetables, welcoming local cows, washing silkworm eggs and drinking spring tea, which has a strong traditional folk custom and local flavor.

The folk custom in China refers to the custom of whipping mud spring cattle on the first day of spring to pray for the New Year, or the custom of beating drums and beating bamboo boards door to door and singing lyrics for money.

Eating radishes in spring has a long history. "The Ming Palace Good Diet" records: "In beginning of spring, everyone, regardless of rank, chewed radishes, which is called' biting spring'." In the Qing Dynasty, "Yanjing Nianji" recorded that women and others bought more radishes to eat, saying that they could be sleepy in spring.

Eating radish can not only solve the problem of spring, but also enhance women's fertility. Radish in spring is also called "radish". Chinese medicine believes that special attention should be paid to protecting the liver in spring, because spring is a feature of rising yang. Therefore, radish is the best health food in spring.