What is the spring ploughing homework?

Before sowing in spring, cultivate the land first.

Before sowing in spring, cultivate the land first. After beginning of spring, spring ploughing will begin, and the custom of trial ploughing has been handed down in some areas of China. However, due to the different environmental and natural conditions, the ways and times of traditional customs of spring ploughing production are also different.

The origin of spring ploughing:

China was founded on agriculture in ancient times, and agriculture paid attention to the integrity of festivals. Spring ploughing, summer harvest, autumn harvest and winter storage are all seasonal. The change of seasons can only be judged by the change of phenology, while wizards with astronomical knowledge can judge by observing the astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, observation was usually carried out when it was just dark (called "fainting"), the observed star was called "fire", and the western astronomical term was Scorpio A.

When the ancient "fire" star was dim, it happened to be at the vernal equinox. On this day, Vulcan observed that Mars was located in the middle of the south, so he announced to the public that it was the vernal equinox and it was time to sow spring. The ancestors of Chu people used to be the ancient Fire King, which is the origin of Shen Rong's name and the first duty of Fire Zheng.

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Some customs of spring ploughing:

1. Farmers in all parts of Tibet should hold traditional spring ploughing ceremonies according to the auspicious day chosen by the Tibetan calendar. The ceremony usually begins in the morning, with men rushing with bulls decorated with red tassels and hada (and driving tractors), and women and children gathering in the farmland with "chariots and horses" on their backs, some carrying herbs, carrying highland barley wine jugs and wearing festive costumes. Mulberry is lit in the middle of the farmland, and green wine keeps coming. I wish you a good harvest in the new year.

In cigarettes, the plowman sticks the rice cake on the "chariots and horses" with his thumb and forefinger, draws it back into the air for three times (to worship Buddha, protect Buddha and monk), then puts it in the mouth of farm animals, sprinkles highland barley wine for three times and feeds it to the animals. After accepting the blessings of the villagers, the plowmen drove the plowmen to plow the fields, and the women danced by the cigarette-filled fire. According to relevant data, this spring ploughing ceremony has a history of 1600 years.

2. In Yaoshan, each responsible person has to dig several hoes in the field with hoes on his back, or dig several hoes in rice fields and vegetable gardens. That is to say, in spring, in addition to breaking ground, he has to go up the mountain to cut some bamboo and insert it in the field, that is, insert it in the field and bury a few seeds in the field, which means a bumper harvest.

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