What's the saying about playing in spring?

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.

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.

The origin of spring:

The folk custom in China refers to the custom of whipping mud spring cattle to pray for a bumper harvest on the day when spring begins, or the custom of beating gongs and beating bamboos, singing songs and asking for money from house to house.

(1) beginning of spring (In the old days, the county magistrate greeted the clay spring cows in beginning of spring the day before and put them in front of the yamen. Beginning of spring lashed them with red and green whips every day, so it is commonly known as beginning of spring's spring.

Old customs in China. It is very popular in many parts of the country. "Spring Cattle", with Sang Mu as the skeleton, is made of clay on the second day of the winter solstice. The pattern with a height of 4 feet and a length of 8 feet and 360 days 12 hours was drawn at 4: 08.

The day before in beginning of spring, people went to the Xianjia altar to offer sacrifices, then beat them with colorful whips, and drove the "Spring Cattle" back to the county government, and set up wine and fruit sacrifices in the hall. Men, women and children hold "cows" to help "plow", sing and plant yangko, and pray for a bumper harvest.

(2) In the old days, unemployed people in Hunan beat gongs and bamboo boards. Before and after the Spring Festival, singing lyrics and asking for money from house to house is called playing spring.