Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Holiday customs in early spring

Holiday customs in early spring

Customs include welcoming the spring and biting the spring.

Spring Festival is an important activity that begins in spring, and it must be prepared and rehearsed in advance, commonly known as spring performance. The Spring Festival can only be officially celebrated on that day in beginning of spring. The Spring Festival was held the day before beginning of spring, with the aim of bringing back spring and Ju Mang. Yingchun set up a spring official, whose post is held by a beggar, to announce the arrival of beginning of spring.

Beginning of spring also has its own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes and spiced dishes. In the south, it eats spring rolls, and there are many vendors selling spring rolls in the market. There are two points worth noting here: first, I used to think that biting spring meant eating radish, but actually it also included eating spring cakes; Second, the so-called begging for spring means welcoming the spring.

Beginning of spring introduced in detail.

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. Standing means "beginning" and stands for warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches longitude 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, and the festival will be held from February 3 to 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Beginning of spring marks the end of the winter when everything is hidden and begins to enter the warm and sunny spring. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. As far as beginning of spring is concerned, you can obviously feel the breath of early spring in the Tropic of Cancer (Huangchi Jiao Jiao) and its south.