What are the customs, activities and food in early spring?

Custom activities: hiding from spring, custom food: radish.

Avoiding spring, commonly known as playing spring, is a folk custom in China, and it is a special taboo for eight-character numerology in some areas and special people. Generally speaking, there are several Zodiac offenders in beginning of spring every year, so try to stay indoors when entering the beginning of spring solar term to reduce the influence, which is also commonly known as "hiding from tradition". When I am in early spring, I will eat radish. In some northern areas, beginning of spring has the custom of eating radishes. There are several ways to eat radish, such as chewing, slicing or filiform. Everyone will choose the way to eat radish that suits them. In fact, radish has high nutritional value and is good for health. Among them, small carrots are the best.

Beginning of spring is a traditional festival that has been handed down from ancient times to the present. In ancient times, beginning of spring was regarded as the Spring Festival, and it was also the day when people all over the country welcomed the Spring Festival. As early as the pre-Qin period, people worshipped gods and ancestors on this day, prayed for happiness and prepared some celebrations. Especially in ancient times, when agriculture was the main economic condition, beginning of spring represented the spring when agriculture could start and sow, which was a season full of vitality and hope, so there were many customs and taboos in beginning of spring.