Which customs and activities belong to beginning of spring?

Bite the spring, greet the spring, fight the spring, Dai Chun chicken, watch the swallow and hang the spring ear.

On the day of "beginning of spring", people in China are used to eating radishes, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring". In the old custom of beginning of spring, the day before, two artists put on ribbons and shouted "Spring is coming" along the street, which is a traditional way to "herald spring". Every year on beginning of spring Day, the mother will make a 3 cm long cock out of cloth and sew it on the child's hat to express her wishes for the "spring chicken". Women hang beans on horns or pull them off cows with thread, thinking that this can prevent children from getting measles.

How to pronounce the vernal equinox? In fact, there are two explanations, one is meteorological, and there is a saying in the proverb: "Wait for the arrival of the mysterious bird; Second, wait for Lei Nai to make a sound; Third, wait for electricity. " The weather changes in this period can be clearly observed. The other is the corresponding flower letter: "first-class begonia, second-class pear flower, third-class magnolia flower."