What are the customs and activities of the vernal equinox?

The custom activities of the vernal equinox include laying eggs, offering sacrifices to ancestors, eating spring vegetables, sending spring cattle, sticking birds' mouths and so on.

1, lay eggs?

"When the vernal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful." Every year on the vernal equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world are doing "vertical egg" experiments. How this toy, called "China Custom", became a "world game" is still difficult to verify. However, its gameplay is really simple and interesting.

2. Ancestor worship? ?

According to the Book of Rites, "Sacrifice to the Sun on the altar" has been handed down from generation to generation. "Ritan is located in the east of Ritan Road in the southeast of Chaoyangmen, Beijing, also known as Asahi altar. It is the place where emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties offered sacrifices to Daimyojin (the sun) at the vernal equinox.

3. eat spring vegetables?

As the name implies, spring vegetables are spring vegetables. In Lingnan area, there is a custom of eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox. "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables.

When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup". There is a jingle that says, "Spring soup is dirty, and it washes the liver and intestines. The whole family is safe and healthy. "

4. Send spring cattle?

It's the vernal equinox, send a picture of spring cattle. It is to print the annual lunar solar terms on red paper or yellow paper, and then print the farmer's farming pattern, which is called "Spring Cattle Map".

People who send pictures are generally good at singing. They mainly say some common sayings that spring ploughing and good luck do not go against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they improvise, make the host happy and give money. Although these words are spoken casually, they are melodious. Commonly known as "spring", spring people are called "spring officials".

5. Stick the sparrow's mouth?

On the vernal equinox, farmers will eat jiaozi at home, cook a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi without heart, and put them in the outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks, which are called sticky birds' mouths to prevent birds from harming crops.

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