What are the customs of spring equinox Spring Equinox Customs

The customs of spring equinox include erecting eggs, eating spring vegetables, sending spring oxen, spring festival, sticking bird's mouth, flying kites, and worshipping God.

1, erect eggs

"Spring equinox, eggs are pretty", the spring equinox has also become the best time to erect eggs game. Eggs that stand up are so beautiful.

2, eat spring vegetables

"Spring equinox eat spring vegetables", "spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the equinox, many people go to pick spring vegetables. Picked back to the spring vegetable general home and fish "rolling soup", called "spring soup". The name is "spring soup". There is a jingle: "Spring soup to fill the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy."

3, send the spring bull

Spring equinox is coming, then there will be sent from house to house spring bull figure. The figure is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the lunar calendar throughout the year, but also printed on the farmer plowing patterns, the name is "spring oxen figure".

4, spring festival

February equinox, the beginning of the tomb sweeping ancestors, also known as the spring festival. Spring ancestor sweeping, all from the spring equinox or earlier, the latest Qingming to sweep the end.

5, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox this day farmers are customary vacation, each family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the sticky finch mouth, lest the finch to destroy the crops.

6, kite flying

Spring equinox or children flying kites is a good time. Especially on the day of the spring equinox. Even adults participate. The kite categories are king kite, chub kite, squint moth kite, thunder bug kite, moonlight kite, the big one is two meters high, and the small one is two or three feet. There are kites for sale in the market, more small, suitable for children to play, and most of them are still their own paste, larger, and also compete with each other to see which one can fly high.

7, worship

Folk festivals before and after the equinox are February 15, the birthday of the Sage King of Zhangzhou: the Sage King of Zhangzhou, also known as the "Sage King of Chen", for the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, a scholar of the martial arts, Zhangzhou has been a success, and after his death, he became the guardian deity of Zhangzhou. February 19th is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On this day, believers go to the Guanyin temples to pay homage to the Bodhisattva. February 25th King of the Three Hills Festival: The King of the Three Hills is the god of the three hills in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Dushan, Mingshan and Towel Hill, which was patronized by the Hakka immigrants from Chaozhou in the early years, and therefore the believers are mainly Hakka people.