What are the customs of Spring Equinox

Customs of the equinoxes, as an important part of traditional culture, have always had a unique cultural charm. Spring equinox has a lot of interesting customs, these customs not only have a profound cultural meaning, but also and the unity of man and nature of the health of the idea of connection. What are the customs of the spring equinox, what are the customs of spring, today I will introduce you one by one.

Spring equinox custom 1, eat spring vegetables

Once upon a time, Siyi had a custom that was not a festival, called "spring equinox eat spring vegetables". "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, everyone in the village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, thin, about as long as the palm of your hand. The picked spring vegetables are usually "rolled in soup" with sliced fish at home, called "spring soup". 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 has become a custom. Since the spring of the year, people are still praying for a peaceful home, strong and healthy.

Spring Equinox custom 2, vertical egg

In the spring equinox day every year, there are millions of people around the world will do "vertical egg" test. This is called "Chinese custom" play, how to become a "world game", it is difficult to prove. However, it is simple and fun to play: choose a smooth, well-proportioned, just four or five days after the birth of a fresh egg, gently on the table to put it up. There were many failures, but 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 so beautiful.

Spring Equinox Customs 3, send the spring cow

Spring Equinox with the arrival of the spring, then appeared to send the spring cow picture from house to house. 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 not against the farming words, 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. It is commonly known as "say spring", say spring people will be called "spring official".

Spring Equinox Customs 4, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox day farmers are customary vacation, each family to eat soup yuan, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the soup yuan more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed outside the field side of the ground, the name is sticky bird mouth, lest the bird to destroy crops. During the equinox is also a good time for children to fly kites. Especially on the day of the spring equinox. Even adults participate. The kites are Wang Zi Kites, Chub Kites, Misty Moth Kites, Thunder Bug Kites, Moonlight Kites, the big ones are two meters high, and the small ones are two or three feet high. The market sells kites, more small, suitable for small 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.

Spring Equinox Customs 5, Spring Festival

February Spring Equinox, the beginning of the tomb sweeping ancestor, also known as the spring festival. Before sweeping the tomb to hold a grand ancestral ceremony in the ancestral hall, killing pigs, slaughtering sheep, please drummers playing, by the ritual student read the text, with the lead in the line of three offerings. At the beginning of the Spring Equinox Tomb Sweeping, 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. There is a saying that the door to the tomb will be closed after the Qingming Festival, and the spirits of the ancestors will not be utilized.

Spring Equinox Customs 6, worship

Folk festivals around the spring equinox are February 15, the birth anniversary 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, martial arts scholar, Zhangzhou, after his death, became the guardian deity of Zhangzhou. February 19th is the birth anniversary of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On this occasion, believers go to the Guanyin temples to pay homage to the Bodhisattva. February 25th King of the Three Mountains Festival Day: The King of the Three Mountains is the god of the three mountains of Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Dushan, Mingshan and Towel Mountain, which in the early years were guarded by the Hakka immigrants from Chaozhou, Chun, and therefore the believers are mainly Hakka people.

Spring Equinox Customs 7, Day Sacrifice

In the Zhou Dynasty, the spring equinox has a day sacrifice ceremony. The Book of Rites: "Sacrifice the sun on the altar." Kong Yingda: "is also called the spring equinox." This custom has been passed down through the generations. Qing Pan Rong ah, "the Imperial capital of the times of record": "the spring equinox sacrifice of the sun, the autumn equinox sacrifice of the moon, is the country's great ceremony, the people are not allowed to trespass on the ritual."

The Temple of the Sun is located in Beijing, Chaoyangmen, southeast of Ritan Road East, also known as the sun altar, it is the Ming and Qing emperors in the spring equinox this day to worship the Daming God (the sun) place. Chaori is scheduled for the dawning of the vernal equinox, and in every year of A, C, E, G and N, the emperor himself sacrificed, while the rest of the years were sacrificed by the officials on behalf of the emperor.

Spring Equinox Customs 8, treat the plow ox

Jiangnan region is popular treat the plow ox, the custom of sacrificing birds. Vernal 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, one is to thank them for reminding the agricultural time, and the second is to hope that the birds do not peck the grains, praying for a good year of meaning.

Spring equinox health knowledge

1, spring equinox health should be living regularly

Daily life should be living regularly, work and rest, so that the rhythm of life with the change of time, space and the four seasons of the climate and adjustments to take advantage of the vitality of the good time, more outdoor activities, relaxation of the body and mind.

2, spring equinox health should regulate emotions

This time the body's blood and hormone activity is at a relative peak, and sudden changes in the climate will lead to imbalance in the body's equilibrium, induced hypertension, heart disease and menstrual disorders, and prone to vertigo, insomnia and other disorders, is a disease of the most common time, so to avoid emotional fluctuations, emotional conditioning is very important.

3, spring equinox health can be Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine theory that spring should be in the liver, summer should be in the heart, long summer should be in the spleen, autumn should be in the lungs, winter should be in the kidney. Spring is the season of high incidence of liver disease, health care focuses on liver, harmonize the balance of yin and yang of the liver. Appropriate selection of some herbal decoction is also a very effective way to choose to apply some of the liver, liver, heat-clearing herbs, effective prevention of disease.

4, spring equinox diet to change

Spring liver, it is appropriate to eat more pungent warm dispersal of food, such as more edamame, green onions, ginger, leeks, shrimp and other favorable Yang qi hair growth of food to seasoning; but also less acidic and more sweet, more to consume sweet flavored sweet and moist foods such as jujubes, lilies, pears, cinnamon, silver fungus, turnips and so on. Spicy hot pot to eat less, mutton, dog meat, and too spicy and fried food should be eaten less, because these foods may be loss of yang, leading to fire.

Spring Equinox Classic Wishes

1. Spring thunder, waking up the hibernation of the earth. The warbler sings and swallows dance, bringing the breath of spring. Peach red and plum white, blooming the beauty of life. The hibernation season, to give you greetings of the heart: spring harvest belongs to their own new world!

2. A year of good scenery in the spring equinox, peach blossom and apricot blossom to the colorful competition, day and night equally in the spring equinox, happy to accompany the blessing of the door, a word of good luck to the spring equinox, happiness to the people who have the heart, I wish the spring equinox happy.

3. The spring equinox is here, everything is recovering and people are laughing, I wish you a bright sunny mood! I wish you good luck and happiness! Flowers smile, joyful spring, I wish you health and happiness! Spring Equinox is a good time, I wish you happiness and joy every second of the day.

4. Eat a variety of diets, a great benefit; balanced meals, more vegetables, less greasy; coarse and fine with meat and vegetables; early to bed and early to rise, exercise; open mind, not angry; full of joy, beautiful face, on the vernal equinox blessing quotes. Spring Equinox is here, may you always be happy!

5. Spring equinox, flowers are pretty, spring color full of spring light, may you be more than flowers, joy straight to the clouds, worry about the melancholy hasten to throw, happy happy lucky star light, spring breeze blessed to open the road, text message to send blessings to, tomorrow life is better!

6. Spring Equinox Spring Equinox, share away your worries, leaving you happy; share away your bad luck, leaving you good luck; share away your frustration, leaving you successful; share away your poverty, leaving you wealth; share away your sorrow, leaving you happy.

7. The spring equinox to, everywhere the scenery is good; and sleep day, blessings busy to. Sending you the infinite beauty of spring, hypnotizing all the worries in your heart, whisking away all the fatigue in your body, I hope you sleep well tonight!

8. The time of the year lies in spring, and the spring equinox is full of joy. May you fall asleep with peace, dream with health, get up with happiness, go on the road with happiness, hold wealth, pull good luck, and stride on the straight road to success.

9. Spring equinox equinox, send you one hundred percent good luck, one hundred percent happiness, one hundred percent as you wish, one hundred percent good, one hundred percent health, one hundred percent sweet, one hundred percent wealth, one hundred percent peace!

10. New Year's greetings, I'm not the first, that equinox greetings, I want to grab to do the first, I want to grab in the new year's first festival, so that you in the first time to listen to my sweet voice, in order to achieve my goal, you set my voice into your wake up ringtone bar, hehehe ~

11. The most is a year of spring to early, green grass green scenery is good. The most important thing to remember is that it's a good time for you to go out and enjoy yourself, and you'll be able to do it without any worries. The best thing is that you can't forget to take care of your friends. Let greetings build a bridge, wish happy long embrace, happy equinox!

12. Spring and scenery, again to the spring equinox, sheer thoughts such as grass; birds and flowers, peach and willow green, blessings sound show spring. I am with my heart, writing sincere, spring equinox good season, may the mood is infinitely bright, career icing on the cake.

13. The spring equinox, the egg is pretty, the yin and yang half cold and summer flat; flowers bloom colorful, the grass is green, the mood is comfortable day and night. The time of year lies in spring, twenty-four seasons count spring equinox, spring equinox, I wish you a happy spring, exceptionally beautiful!

14. Listen carefully to the spring rain ding-dong, you will find the most beautiful melody echoes in the ear; look carefully at the hundreds of flowers in bloom, you will find the most beautiful picture in front of you. The spring equinox is coming, joyful, I trust the rain to send you peace.

15. Welcome the spring wind, show the chest, full of spring is really wonderful. The sunrise is poetic and the sunset is picturesque. The birds are singing, and the sound of their voices is auspicious. Flowers are budding, and I wish you well. The spring equinox is here, may your spring flowers blossom with joy!

16. Drinking half-healthy is just right, the flowers bloom half the time most colorful, the horse puts half the reins to seek stability, the sail opens half the fan does not turn upside down, the equinox is half yin and half yang, half clear and half the night, the bitterness and happiness of life should be mixed in half, and the equal share of fame and fortune half a minute of idleness. I wish you a happy equinox!

17. The spring equinox to, spring equinox ten. A green mountain green, two points of clear blue water, three peach blossoms, four points of flowers and grasses, five points of willow, six points of smoke and rain, seven points of the return of the swallow, eight points of the heart of the idea of the nine points of blessing attachment, ten points of unlimited spring light.

18. Behind everyone there is the road of the past, under everyone's feet there is the road of today, in front of everyone there is the road of the future, every spring there is a new road, on the road of flowers and green leaves of spring, I wish you a happy equinox!

19. A year in the spring, the equinox is spring, all things compete for the glory of the new, vibrant and diligent people, I wish you the heart of the sunshine, the wind blowing good luck, career buds blooming red, smile every day really happy.

20. A little you a green leaf of spring, pass my deep blessing; a little to a small text message, condensed my wish for you; equinox, a beautiful beginning, I wish happiness and sweetness will always be with you!

21. Spring equinox to, flower branch smile, bees branch haunting; peach blossom red, pear blossom white, spring fragrance to this break; wind with rain, rain news, gospel happy people; heart write heart, heart cherish, sincere pass friendship; happy together, blessed together, good luck with you to go.

22. A year's plan is in the spring, send a text message to earn points, blessing friends a good season, everyone receives all happy, forwarding friends happy. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get the best out of you, but I'm sure I'll be able to.

23. Beauty as you wish, you smile as beautiful as you wish, as if happiness stands in the spring breeze, open in the spring breeze; Happy as you wish, you smile as happy as you wish, as if happy standing in the spring rain, open in the spring rain. I wish you a happy equinox!

24. Spring equinox spring, life is colorful in the spring breeze; spring garden to send greetings, visible you and I love friendship. Send a wisp of flowers, may life be fresh and sweet, give a piece of spring color, may every day wonderful colorful.

25. It is time for the spring equinox, and the new buds are slightly probing. The grass dances with both hands, and the flowers nod slightly. The spring breeze is blowing the willow, singing a soft song. I've been thinking about you for a long time, and I'm sending this to my cell phone. Just for the sake of blessing my friend: I wish you happiness forever.

26. The lovely spring girl, with light steps to the earth, that a scene of vitality will come to all sides, the whole world like just waking up from a long sleep, spring equinox, I wish you happy!

27. Spring equinox, willow green, warbler grass, wheat plucking, rape flowers, spring equinox wheat, a moment worth a thousand gold, peach red and white to welcome the spring yellow, day and night equal division. I wish you a happy holiday!

29. Spring equinox season points cold and warm, pay attention to diet and hard workout, take care of the body is the most critical, fine water to make money, take the time to walk, do not have to say, bathe in the spring breeze mood warm, I wish the spring equinox happy.

30. Spring is there, where there are flowers blooming all over the place. The flowers where, where there are butterflies dancing and flying. Butterflies are there, where there is the heart to follow. Where the heart is, there is the beauty of blessings: Happy Equinox!

31. Grandpa Winter has just left, the spring girl with a basket of flowers, accompanied by the spring wind, with spring rain, quietly came to earth, at once, the earth everything revived, birds and flowers, showing a school of life. I wish you a happy equinox!

32. Spring flowers bloom equinox to, a thunderbolt of auspicious light. Happy raindrops moisturize the earth, auspicious flowers blossom happiness cover. The spring rain showers the beauty of pleasure, such as the wind and rain in the year of good fortune. Joyful farm family heart beautiful, full of happiness spring garden. I wish you a happy spring!

33. Bathe in the sunshine of spring, play with the fragrance of spring, spring equinox has come, let go of the mind to voyage, welcome a bouquet of elegant flowers, bathe in a wisp of golden spring light, accept a sincere blessing: I wish you the spring equinox, the mood of the most sparkling!

34. The spring equinox to, flower branch smile, bees branch haunted; peach blossom red, pear blossom white, spring fragrance to this break; wind with rain, rain news, gospel happy people; heart write heart, heart cherish, sincere friendship; happy together, blessed together, good luck with you go.

35. The spring equinox has arrived, there is a happy mood spreading in the face, there is a sincere in the heart of the rise, there is a kind of strength in the body to release, there is a ray of hope in the melody of life burning, there is a kind of self-confidence spurring you and me to go forward on the journey. May you have a full harvest on the vernal equinox.

36. Spring equinox season points cold and warm, pay attention to diet and hard workout, take care of the body most pivotal, fine water to make money, take the time to stroll around the needless to say, bathe in the east wind mood warmth, I wish the spring equinox happy.

37. The spring equinox is coming, the spring color is more intense, the east wind is more warm, the spring rain is more wonderful, the spring sun is more brilliant, the spring flowers are more fragrant, even you, the spring heart is also more rippling, right? Happy Spring Equinox!

38. The spring equinox is here, and the birds are calling. The days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter. Sleep early and get enough sleep. The day is getting longer and the night is getting shorter. The body is good and free from disease. A big and open heart, no worries. Happiness is here, peace is here. I'm always happy, I'm always happy!

39. The spring equinox is warm, blessings to the body! The birds are singing happily and wishing you good luck! Butterflies are flying, wishing you happiness! The flowers are budding, wishing you well! I wish you a happy spring equinox!

40. Growing a bud of thought, the breeze swaying in my sincere concern, blooming a flower of greetings, the aroma drifting away between my innocent expression: I wish you a happy spring equinox.