What are the customs of the spring equinox

Spring Equinox Customs What are the customs of the spring equinox

1, sun sacrifice

Zhou Dynasty, the spring equinox sun ceremony. Qing Pan Rong ah, "the emperor of the capital of the year and the times of record": "the spring equinox sacrifice of the sun, the autumn equinox sacrifice of the moon, is the state of the ceremony, the people shall not be trespassing on the rituals." Most of the ancient emperors of the day place in the suburbs of Beijing, the Yuan Dynasty, built the altar of the sun, since then the Ming and Qing emperors in the spring equinox this day in the altar of the sun to sacrifice to Daming God (the sun). Chaozhi fixed in the spring equinox of the d quarter, every A, C, E, G, non years, the emperor himself sacrifice, the rest of the years by officials on behalf of the sacrifice.

Beijing's current Temple of the Sun was built in the ninth year of the Ming Jiajing (1530) is the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed to the Sun God (the ancient name of the "God of the Great Ming") place. From the first year of the Ming dynasty Longqing (1567) from more than four hundred years, there have been five emperors such as Tianqi, Chongzhen, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, etc. to the sun altar pro-sacrifice. Qing Daoguang 23 years (1843) after the "festival" activities gradually died out, has been interrupted for more than 160 years.

Nutritional advice, spring equinox, you can eat more dates and other spleen nourishing sweets, as well as honey, leeks, spinach, etc., and eat less acid and spicy food. In addition, at least 3 times a week should be supplemented with nut foods, such as walnuts, peanuts, almonds, peach kernels, etc., which helps to refresh and remove dryness, in addition to itching and so on.

2, spring eggs

It is said that every year on the day of the spring equinox, tens of millions of people around the world in the "vertical egg" test. As early as 4,000 years ago, China had a tradition of erecting eggs on the vernal equinox to celebrate the arrival of spring. It evolved into a tradition of praying for good luck.

To do this successfully, you can choose a smooth, well-proportioned, fresh egg that's just four or five days old, and try to put it up on a flat table. Although there are many failures, but there are also many successes. Some people explain, this is with the "equinox" the earth's axis is 66.5 degrees tilted and the earth's orbit around the sun plane is just in a state of relative balance of forces, is very conducive to the "vertical egg". It is said to stand stable eggs in the absence of external interference, can be maintained for more than ten days.

3, eat spring vegetables

Some areas in the south of the ridge, the equinox there is a custom not festival, called "spring equinox eat spring vegetables". "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, people go to pick spring vegetables. When you search in the field, you will see that it is young and green, thin, and about as long as the palm of your hand.

Picked back to the spring vegetables are generally home and fish slices "rolling soup", the name is "spring soup". There is also a folk jingle on this account: "spring soup irrigation dirty, wash the liver and intestines; the whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." A year's plan is in spring, in the spring equinox arrival. In the face of all things sprouting, people naturally want to pray for peace and quiet at home, strong and healthy.

4, spring festival

February equinox, began to sweep the tomb ancestor, also known as spring festival. Folk sweeping the tomb before the ancestral hall to hold a grand ancestral rites, killing pigs, slaughtering sheep, please drummers playing, by the ceremony read the text, with the introduction of the three dedication ceremony. When tomb-sweeping starts at the spring equinox, the first thing to do is to sweep the graves of the founding ancestor and the distant ancestor, and the whole clan and the whole village will be mobilized on a very large scale, with the team often amounting to several hundred or even thousands of people. After sweeping the graves of the founding fathers and distant ancestors, then they are divided into houses to sweep the graves of the ancestors of each house, and finally each family sweeps the private graves of the family.

How to set up eggs on the spring equinox

1, pick eggs

First of all, you should pick eggs that are big on one end and small on the other, and when you set up the eggs, you should put the big end down, so that the center of gravity will be lower, just like an inverted doll.

2. Finding a support surface

To find a suitable support surface, we did a small experiment, coated the desktop with sealing clay, and then stand the egg on the desktop coated with sealing clay, you can find that the egg can be stood, the bottom of the egg, there will be a hard to see with the naked eye plane, once gravity can be passed through the line of action of the plane, the egg will be able to stand up.

3, the hand should be stable

Standing egg hand to try to keep still, so that the yolk can slowly precipitate to the lower part of the egg, so that the center of gravity can be low enough to keep the egg balanced.