What are the traditional activities at the beginning of spring?

The traditional activities in beginning of spring include: hanging spring ears, offering sacrifices to ancestors, welcoming the Spring Festival, posting spring cows and holding the Spring Festival.

1, hanging spring ear

Hanging spring ear is a traditional custom, which spreads in Chengcheng area of Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of each spring, women weave tassels with various colors of cloth, or wind colored threads into various forms of "ears of wheat". Then it can be hung on children or young people, and it can also be hung on animals such as donkeys, horses, cows, etc., in order to wish a good weather and a bumper harvest in the coming year.

2. ancestor worship

In many areas, beginning of spring offered sacrifices to his ancestors. For example, Guangdong's "Xin 'an County Records" says: "People are related to ancestral temples. "When I was in beginning of spring, the food for my ancestors was also very special." Henan Ruyang County Records said: "Have a spring banquet, spit spring cakes and recommend pears. In some places, beginning of spring's sacrifice is called "biting the spring".

3. Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is held on the same day in beginning of spring. In the mighty ceremonial procession, Spring Festival travel rush officials marched on the stage, jostling before and hugging after, commanding. And there are steamed stuffed buns and Marco, dressed in robes and jackets, or all kinds of strange clothes, sitting on the wooden poles carried by the two of them, playing and playing, which makes people laugh.

4, paste spring cattle

The custom of sticking spring cattle began before the beginning of spring. According to the traditional practice, the county government (county government) hired experts and craftsmen in paper binding to get together in the county town before the spring, and carefully made images of spring cattle. Generally, bamboo sticks are tied into the skeleton of a cow, spring wood is used as legs, paper is pasted and paint is applied, and the image of a cow is successfully made.

5. Spring society

The Spring Club is a day of offering sacrifices to the land gods in ancient spring. The Zhou Dynasty was the first day of junior high school, and most of them were held on the fifth day after beginning of spring. "The Book of Rites of Mingtang": "It is a big wax because of Hagar, autumn flavor, Dongcheng, Chunshe and autumn province, and it is also a sacrifice of the son of heaven." Before the Han dynasty, there were only spring festivals, and after the Han dynasty, there were spring festivals and autumn festivals, which were held around the vernal equinox and autumn equinox.