Important festivals around the spring equinox in ancient times

An important festival around the spring equinox in ancient times, the Flower Dynasty Festival.

The flowers were in full bloom. The season of blossoming flowers is naturally filled with festivals about flowers. Xiao Fang, a professor at Beijing Normal University, said there is a very ancient festival around the equinox, called the Flower Festival, also known as the "Flower God Festival", commonly known as the "Hundred Flowers Birthday".

Festival revival of Flower Dynasty Festival

March 10, 2016, the second day of the second month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, is the traditional Han Chinese festival of Flower Dynasty Festival. On the day, peach blossoms, begonias and cherry blossoms bloomed in a sea of gorgeous flowers in the Flower Valley scenic area located in the core of the West Sea of Mount Lushan in Jiangxi Province. Many girls dressed in Chinese dress along the stone flower path, pick up the steps, incense to worship the flower god, for the spring blessing. At the same time, many tourists are also wandering around, taking pictures.

The customs of the spring equinox are trekking and flying kites, eating spring vegetables, setting eggs, sending spring cows, and sticking birds' beaks.

1, trekking and kite flying

After the spring equinox, people have begun to trekking, outdoor activities, kite flying is an important project. Kites, anciently known as "harrier", "kite", "harrier" and "kite" are hawk-like raptors, ancient kites In ancient times, most of the kites were made of silk or paper in the shape of eagles, so the kites were also called "paper harriers" and "paper kites". Later, the shape of the kite varies, and most of the kites flown in spring are swallow kites.

2, eat spring vegetables

Spring vegetables, as the name suggests, is the spring vegetables. In the Lingnan area, the spring equinox has the custom of eating spring vegetables. "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the villagers called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, thin, and about as long as the palm of your hand. The harvested spring vegetables are usually home and fish slices "rolling soup", the name is "spring soup".

3, standing eggs

"Spring Equinox, eggs are pretty", in the spring equinox day every year, there are tens of millions of people around the world in the "vertical egg" test. This is called "Chinese custom" play, how to become a "world game", it is difficult to prove. But it is easy and fun to play.

4, send the spring cow

Spring cow map is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the lunar calendar throughout the year, and then printed on the farmer plowing patterns, the name is "spring cow map". The sender of the map are generally able to speak good at singing, mainly to say some spring plowing and auspicious not against the farming season of the proverb, each to a family is more of a scene, said the owner of the joy and give money until. These words are spoken casually, but every sentence has a rhyme and sound. Commonly known as "say spring", say spring people will be called "spring official".

5, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox this day farmers will eat dumplings at home, but also more than ten or twenty or thirty not wrapped in the heart of the dumplings boiled, with a fine bamboo fork cuttings placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the sticky finch mouth, so as to avoid the finch to destroy the crops.