Folk activities in spring

Beginning of spring's traditional customs and activities include welcoming the spring, seeing off the spring, pasting Yichun calligraphy and painting, hometown ceremony and pasting spring cattle.

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival is an important activity that begins in spring, and it must be prepared and rehearsed in advance, commonly known as spring performance. Then we can officially celebrate the Spring Festival in beginning of spring. The Spring Festival was held the day before beginning of spring, with the aim of bringing back spring and Ju Mang. After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.

2, send spring

On the day of spring, folk artists will make many small mud cows, called "spring cows", and send them to every household, called "seeing off the spring". In some places, there is a yellow paper with a picture of spring cattle on the wall. Yellow stands for land, and spring cattle stands for farming.

3. Paste Yichun calligraphy and painting

Spring is coming, and it is the custom of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty to stick Yichun calligraphy and painting on the door wall. According to records, at the beginning of spring, Chang 'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted calligraphy and painting on their doors, with the words "Yichun" and "Yichun painting" on them.

4. Sacrifice ceremony to heaven

In ancient times, the ceremony of native land was held at the beginning of spring, and the content of native land included prayers to Mother Earth. Drinking together after the native ceremony is a prototype ritual custom of "group worship" and "New Year greetings" in later generations.

5, 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.

It is said that a lot of red and yellow papers were posted on it, and that year was a "bumper harvest"; Paste on black paper, the harvest was not good that year. So the magistrate arranged to win people's hearts with red and yellow paper. After the spring cattle were pasted, a ceremony was held to make the finishing point, that is, an incense table was set up and a bow was made to worship.