What are the folk customs of the spring

Traditional customs and activities in the spring: welcoming spring, sending spring, posting Yichun calligraphy and paintings, Jitian rituals, paste spring tiger.

1, welcome spring

Welcome spring is an important activity in the spring, must be prepared in advance, preview, commonly known as the spring. Then only on the day of spring officially welcome spring. Welcoming spring is carried out on the day before the first day of spring, the purpose is to pick up spring and the Jumang God. After the first day of spring, people like to go out for spring tour on the warm spring days, commonly known as going out of the city to explore the spring and trekking in the spring, which is the main form of spring tour.

2, send spring

The day of spring, folk artists will make a lot of small clay tiger, called "spring tiger", sent to each household, called "send spring". There are also places to put a painting on the wall of the yellow paper with a spring tiger, yellow on behalf of the land, the spring tiger on behalf of the agricultural industry.

3, posting spring paintings

Spring is here, to the door wall posting spring paintings, this custom in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. According to records: spring day, Chang'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted on the door to welcome spring wish auspicious words and paintings, the word called "Yichun word", painting called "Yichun painting".

4, Cidian ceremony

Anciently held on the day of the spring Cidian ceremony, Cidian's content contains the mother of the earth's prayers. The ceremony was followed by a drinking party, which was a prototype of the later rituals of "reunion" and "New Year's greetings".

5, paste the spring tiger

Paste the spring tiger this customary activity is in the spring before the start, according to the traditional way, by the county government (county office) to hire paper machete good craftsmen, in the spring before the party to the county, elaborate spring tiger image. Generally tied with bamboo gabions into the skeleton of the tiger, with the spring wood to do legs, and then paste the paper, paint, a tiger image on the production of success.