What customs do people have on this day in early spring?

The customs in early spring are as follows:

1, eat spring cakes.

Eating spring cakes and lettuce in beginning of spring is one of the customs in beginning of spring, commonly known as chewing, biting or tasting spring. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring means welcoming spring. According to records, the shepherd's purse spring cake in the court of the Song Dynasty is "green HongLing, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite, each worth ten thousand yuan."

Spring cakes are as thin as cicadas. What is recorded here is the spring rolls (also called spring rolls) made by smearing fine flour on a 1 flat pan to make extremely thin and transparent cakes, which are used to wrap shepherd's purse stuffing and then fried. Spring cakes and spring rolls were symbols of spring in the eyes of the ancients.

2. beginning of spring plays spring.

Beginning of spring is also called "spring beating", and here "spring beating" refers to beating spring cattle.

China is a big agricultural country. People have always attached importance to agricultural production and insisted on not violating the farming season. Cattle is a symbol of farming and a representative of productivity. Therefore, China has used Niuchunzhu since ancient times. It is said that "the Duke of Zhou began to decide the local cattle in the spring" and it became a custom.

Therefore, the custom of beating spring cattle in the early spring has continued to this day.

3, whip spring cattle.

Also known as whipping cattle and beating cattle.

It originated earlier and has been preserved since then, but it was changed to spring, which prevailed in Tang and Song Dynasties. Especially after Song Renzong promulgated the Cattle Slaughtering Classic, the custom of whipping and slaughtering cattle spread more widely and became an important part of folk culture. The significance of whipping spring cattle is not limited to sending air conditioning and promoting spring ploughing, but also has certain witchcraft significance.