What is playing with spring, praising the earth and playing with lotus flowers?

Playing spring is the common name of beginning of spring, and it is the solar term of spring returning to the earth. It is the first of the 24 solar terms. Praising the land is a form of celebrating the Spring Festival. Playing lotus is begging for food.

Beginning of spring is a traditional festival in China. In the Zhou Dynasty, on this day, the son of heaven personally led Sangong to wait until the eastern suburbs to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people whipped the cattle in spring and sent Koharu cattle to persuade farmers to plow their fields in spring and pray for a bumper harvest. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been eating green vegetables, welcoming local cattle, bathing silkworm eggs and drinking spring tea, which has strong traditional folk customs and local flavor.

Praising the land is a form of celebrating the Spring Festival. Every year from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth day of the first month (Lantern Festival) is called the Spring Festival. At this time, people who praise the land (also called Youchun) will take this festival to join in the fun and make some money. Most of them are poor. Props are very simple, a bowl of gongs (small gongs) and a bamboo, knock and praise, and go door to door. His compliments are all flattery, and there are some feudal superstitions in the jingle of four or six sentences.

In the past, small families gave more rice and less money, while large families gave more rice and less money. With the development and change of society, people who praise the land will always give some changes. Running dozens of shops a day can earn a considerable income during the Spring Festival.

Playing lotus is begging for food. Scattered Flowers Music, which originated in the Tang and Five Dynasties, is the first warning song to publicize Buddhist teachings when collecting money for monks. It became popular among the people in the Song Dynasty. After the Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty, professional artists appeared, and there were many opera fans among the children of the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty, so they merged with another popular folk art form "Ten Leisure" and became one of the folk flower parties. This song is called "Ten Leisure Lotus Falls", also known as "Ten Leisure Lotus Falls" or "Lotus Falls". The content is mostly folk songs that describe scenery and tell folk stories.

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