What are the characteristics and customs of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival season is characterized by a weakening of the south branch of the westerly rapids in East Asia, but the strength and location of the north branch of the westerly rapids remain basically unchanged. The Mongolian cold high pressure and the Aleutian low pressure are still relatively strong, but in the intervening period of the influence of the strong cold air, the frequency of the southerly windsincreases, and is accompanied by an obvious process of temperature rise.

The customs are as follows:

1. Welcoming the god Jumang

Jumang is the god of spring, i.e., the god of grass, trees and life. Jumang's image is a human face, bird body, the rules, the main spring. When welcoming the god, many activities are held, such as drumming and blowing in a large class, carrying a pavilion, playing on the ground, rice-planting songs, and beating cows.

2, spring tour

Compared with the ritual sacrifices, local folk more lively and celebratory atmosphere. The activities on this day are called welcoming spring. After the beginning of spring, people like to go out in the spring blossom days, commonly known as out of the city to explore the spring, spring trekking, which is also the main form of spring tour.

3, whip spring cattle

Zhejiang region to welcome spring cattle has its own characteristics. When welcoming the spring cow, kowtow to the spring cow in turn. After worship, the people swarmed up, the spring cow broken, grab the spring cow soil home, scattered in the cattle pen. This shows that whipping the spring bull is also a kind of propagation witchcraft, that is, after welcoming the spring bull soil, sprinkled in the cattle pen can promote the reproduction of cattle.

History

Lichun, the first of the 24 solar terms, also known as the first month of the festival, the Festival, the Festival of the year, the change of the year, the first day of the year, and so on. The word "spring" means "beginning", and spring represents warmth and growth. In nature, the most notable feature of spring is that everything begins to show signs of recovery.

The beginning of spring is the day when everything starts to grow, which means that a new cycle has begun. Spring is the beginning of spring, the chronology into the spring. At this time, although the spring is still cold, but the cold winter is over, spring back to the earth, everything is revived, nature is full of vigor. Therefore, the ancients attached importance to the spring, in ancient times, there is the ritual of welcoming the spring.