Folk activities of solar terms in beginning of spring

The folk activities of solar terms in beginning of spring are as follows:

1, biting spring

On the day when spring begins, China people are used to eating carrots, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring". However, different local customs have different manifestations, and eating spring rolls is popular in the south. On the day when spring begins, another food that our people eat is radish. Because radish is spicy, it means that the ancients "bite the grass roots, they can do anything."

2. Spring Festival

It is also a traditional custom to "welcome spring" at the beginning of spring. The day before in beginning of spring, two artists put on ribbons and shouted "Spring is coming", which is the traditional "Welcome to Spring". After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.

3. Spring

To "spring" means to "whip the spring cattle" to "urge the ploughing". Spring cattle can be divided into paper cattle and mud cattle. A person who pretends to be a fairy whips a spring cow three times with a whip wrapped in HongLing, which is called "beating a spring cow". It means to drive away the laziness of spring cattle and urge people to farm quickly when spring returns to the earth.

Beginning of spring solar terms

Beginning of spring, the first of the 24 solar terms, stands for "beginning" and spring stands for warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches the longitude of 3 15, it is beginning of spring, which is celebrated every year from February 3 to 5 in the Gregorian calendar.

In the era of cadres and branches, silver moon is spring, beginning of spring is the beginning of a year, and beginning of spring is the beginning of everything, which means all self-renewal, which means the beginning of a new cycle. In the traditional concept, beginning of spring has auspicious meaning. Beginning of spring marks the end of the winter when everything is hidden and begins to enter the warm and sunny spring. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-beginning of spring