What to do on the spring equinox, what to do on the spring equinox, spring equinox folk activities

Spring equinox folk activities:

1, send the spring cow

Spring equinox is coming, then there will be sent from house to house to send the spring cow picture. The figure is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the lunar calendar throughout the year, but also printed on the farmer plowing patterns, the name is "spring oxen figure". Sent to the map are some folk good language singers, mainly say some spring plowing and auspicious words do not violate the farming season, each to a family is a scene, see what to say what, said the owner of the joy and give money until. Although the words come out of their mouths, but every sentence has a rhyme and sound. Commonly known as "say spring", say spring people will be called "spring official".

2, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox day farmers are customary vacation, each family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the sticky finch mouth, so as to avoid the finch to destroy the crops.

3, spring festival

February equinox, began to sweep the tomb ancestor, also known as spring festival. Before sweeping the graves, a grand ceremony of ancestor worship is held in the ancestral hall, pigs are killed, sheep are slaughtered, drummers are invited to play, the rituals are read by the students, and three offerings are made by the band leader. When tomb-sweeping starts at the spring equinox, the first thing to do is to sweep the graves of the founding ancestor and the distant ancestor, and the whole clan and the whole village will be mobilized on a very large scale, with the team often amounting to several hundred or even thousands of people. After the graves of the founding ancestors and distant ancestors are swept, then the ancestors' graves are swept in different houses, and finally the private graves of each family are swept. In most Hakka areas, spring ancestor sweeping starts at the spring equinox or earlier, and is completed by Qingming at the latest.

4, worship

Folk festivals before and after the equinox are February 15, the birthday of the Sage King of Zhangzhou: the Sage King of Zhangzhou, also known as the "Sage King of Chen", for the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, a scholar of the martial arts, Zhangzhou has been a success, and after his death, he became the guardian deity of Zhangzhou. February 19th is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On this day, believers go to the Guanyin temples to pay homage to the Bodhisattva. February 25th King of the Three Mountains Festival: The King of the Three Mountains is the god of the three mountains, Dushan, Mingshan and Towel Mountain, in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, which was patronized by the Hakka immigrants from Chaozhou in the early years of their lives, and thus the believers are predominantly of Hakka origin.

5, day sacrifice

In the Zhou Dynasty, the spring equinox has a day ceremony. The Book of Rites: "Sacrifice the day at the altar." Kong Yingda Shu: "It is also called the spring equinox." Temple of the Sun is located in Beijing Chaoyangmen outside the southeast of Ritan Road East, also known as the Chaoyang Temple, it is the Ming and Qing emperors in the spring equinox this day to worship the Daming God (the sun) place. Chaori was set at the dawning of the spring equinox, and in every year of A, C, E, G, and N, the emperor himself offered sacrifices, while the rest of the years the officials offered sacrifices on behalf of the emperor.

6, vertical egg

The play is really simple and fun: choose a smooth and proportional, just laid four or five days of fresh eggs, gently on the table to put it up. There are many failures, but there are also many successes. The spring equinox is the best time for the egg-erection game, so there is a saying that "when the spring equinox comes, the egg is pretty". The eggs that are erected are very beautiful.

7, eat spring vegetables

Once upon a time, Siyi had a custom that was not a festival, called "spring equinox eat spring vegetables". There is a jingle: "Spring soup to fill the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." Slowly, this became a custom. A year since the spring, people still pray for peace and quiet, strong and healthy.

8, kite flying

Spring equinox is still a good time for children to fly kites. Especially on the day of the spring equinox. Even adults participate. The kite categories are king kites, chub kites, squint moth kites, thunderbug kites, moonlight kites, the big ones are two meters high, and the small ones are two or three feet. There are kites for sale in the market, more small, suitable for children to play, and most of them are still their own paste, larger, and also compete with each other to see which one can fly high.

9, treat plowing oxen

Jiangnan region is popular to treat plowing oxen, the custom of sacrificing birds. The spring equinox has arrived, the plowing ox is the beginning of the year's labor, to glutinous rice balls fed to the plowing ox to show reward; sacrifices to the birds, on the one hand, to thank them for reminding the agricultural time, on the other hand, hope that the birds do not peck at the grains, praying for a good year of meaning.

10, hairpin drinking

Hairpin is a kind of Han women's headdress, used as jewelry worn on the head of the woman, adding a vibrant, lively life breath, and therefore beautiful. In addition to flowers, there are silk flowers, Luo flowers, damask flowers, satin flowers, silk flowers, bead flowers and so on. In ancient times, on the day of celebration, the court officials were hairpin flowers on their scarves and hats. The custom of hairpin has a history of two to three thousand years in China. Zhou Fang's "Hairpin Ladies" reproduces the situation of women in the Tang Dynasty who wore colorful hairpins. In recent times, there are images of women with hairpins in the woodblock prints of Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Taohuayu in Suzhou. In recent times, brides often wear flowers in their hair, but they are not limited to fresh flowers, and silk flowers are also used.

The vernal equinox is the midpoint of the ninety days of spring. One of the twenty-four solar terms, it occurs every year on the Gregorian calendar around March 20, when the sun is at 0° of the yellow meridian (the vernal equinox). On the day of the equinox, the sun shines directly on the Earth's equator, and the seasons are reversed in the northern and southern hemispheres. The vernal equinox is the New Year in Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, with a history of 3,000 years.

"Monthly Order Seventy-two Waiting Jiejie": "In the middle of February, the equinox is also half, this is when the half of the ninety days, so it is called the equinox. Autumn has the same meaning." The Spring and Autumn Fandanglu - yin and yang in and out of the upper and lower chapters, said: "Spring equinox, yin and yang half also, so the day and night are even and the cold and heat are flat."

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