What are the customs in beginning of spring and beginning of spring?

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. As the saying goes, "A year's plan lies in spring", and China is a country with profound traditional culture. What are the customs in beginning of spring? What is suitable for eating in spring?

Welcome ceremony

In ancient times, beginning of spring, on this day, from the Emperor to Shu Ren, was sent to the eastern suburbs for the Spring Festival. Why choose the eastern suburbs? This is because Ju Mang worshipped during the Spring Festival is the God of the East. After the Spring Festival ceremony, Emperor Tiandi wanted to reward his ministers and show kindness to the people. This kind of activity had a great influence on civilians, so it later developed into a Spring Festival activity for generations.

In addition to this national celebration, the ancients also had the custom of playing spring cattle, drinking spring wine and eating spring cakes in beginning of spring that day.

Beat spring cattle

Playing spring cattle is to drive cattle in the loess every day in the spring and whip them with a whip, which means urging them to work hard. After the spring cattle in the palace are finished, move the yellow cattle to the courtiers' home to let the courtiers play spring, and pedestrians passing by the door can also play spring cattle. Because of this custom, beginning of spring is also called "Da Chun" among the people.

Drink spring wine

Drinking spring wine has existed in China since ancient times, and it still continues this traditional custom in Taiwan Province Province. In 20 14, the Kuomintang in nine provinces of Ma Ying held a special spring wine dinner for the Kuomintang Central Committee, while enterprises in Taiwan Province had the tradition of entertaining their employees with spring wine when they went to work in the New Year.

Eat spring pancake

In ancient times, at the beginning of spring, there was a folk custom of eating spring cakes and spring rolls. Spring pancake is a pancake baked or steamed with wheat flour and covered with a mixture of bean sprouts, leeks and vermicelli. I used to eat spring cakes, paying attention to ordering lunch boxes from the sauce meat shop, and the store delivered them to my door. Box meals are packed with smoked pot belly, pine nut pot belly, oven meat, sauce meat and smoked elbow, cut into filaments when eating, and served with several home-cooked dishes, such as fried shredded leek and scrambled eggs, and rolled into spring cakes to eat together.

Eating spring cakes pays attention to wrapping the dishes and eating them from beginning to end. It is called "beginning and ending", which means good luck.