What solar term is the vernal equinox? What are the customs?

The custom of vernal equinox refers to the traditional customs during the vernal equinox and solar terms, including laying eggs, eating spring vegetables and sending spring cattle.

Every year on the day of the vernal equinox, thousands of people in Qian Qian are doing "vertical egg" experiments. Why this toy called "customization" will become a "game" is still difficult to prove. 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. Although there are many losers, there are also many winners. The vernal equinox has become the best time for vertical egg games, so there is a saying that when the vernal equinox arrives, the eggs will be beautiful. The eggs that stand up are very beautiful.

The vernal equinox is a good time for children to fly kites, especially on the vernal equinox, and even adults participate. Kites are divided into Wang Zi Kite, Silver Carp Kite, Myxomoth Kite, Leigong Kite and Moon Light Kite. The biggest kite is two meters high, and the smallest one is two or three feet. There are kites on the market, many of which are smaller than others' and suitable for children to play with, but most of them are posted by themselves, and the bigger ones have to compete with each other to see which one flies high.

In Jiangnan, the custom of watching cattle and offering sacrifices to birds is very popular. When the vernal equinox arrives, the cows will begin to work for a year, and feeding them dumplings is a reward; Sacrificing hundreds of birds, one is to thank them for reminding them of the farming season, and the other is to hope that birds will not peck at the grain and pray for a bumper harvest.

According to custom, farmers have a holiday on the vernal equinox. Every family should eat dumplings, and a dozen or thirty heartless dumplings will be made. Put a thin bamboo fork on the edge of the outdoor field, which is called sticking the sparrow's mouth, so as not to ruin the crops.