What are the ancient customs of Spring

What are the ancient customs of Lichun

What are the ancient customs of Lichun? Twenty-four seasons is a unique Chinese traditional culture, and the spring in our view is a special one, different seasons have different customs. The following take a look at the spring what ancient customs.

What ancient customs of the spring 1

1, paste spring cow: paste spring cow this customary activity is in the spring before the start, according to the traditional practice, by the county government (county office) to hire the paper tie good craftsmen, in the spring before the party to the county, carefully made spring cow image. Generally tied into the skeleton of the bull with bamboo gimlets, with spring wood for legs, and then paste the paper, paint, a cow image on the production of success.

2, playing the spring bull: there are made of mulberry wood for the skeleton of the spring bull, is dedicated to "playing the spring bull" customary activities with the "cow". After the winter solstice festival, we take the soil and synthesize the clay blank, and carve it into the shape of a similar size of a cow. Painted on the four times eight sections, 360 days 12 hours pattern. The day before spring, the government and the people first agreed to sacrifice on the farm altar.

3, welcome spring: in order to welcome spring, first in the county suburbs to choose a good Feng Shui land, set up a "spring shed" ready to welcome spring. Spring shed is generally built in the main traffic, easy to concentrate on the crowd place. Surrounded by colorful flags.

4, spring tour, spring: welcome spring after the start of the spring tour, the villages and societies of the drums and gongs and honor guards in the front, by four or eight people to carry a huge statue of the spring bull to go in the back. While walking and dancing, the gongs and drums are noisy and the firecrackers sound. The procession is very spectacular. It traveled all around the village, the streets and alleys.

Lichun is not only the first of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, Lichun is divided from the astronomical, and in nature, in people's minds, spring means the wind and the sun, the birds and flowers; spring also means that everything grows, the farmers sow seeds.

Spring is one of the important traditional festivals of the Han Chinese folk. "Li" is the "beginning" of the meaning, since the Qin Dynasty, China has been to Li Chun as the beginning of the spring season. As the saying goes, "A year's plan lies in the spring", since ancient times, the spring is a traditional festival.

The late Warring States period of the book "Lu Shi Chunqiu" "December period", there is a spring, the spring equinox, the summer, the summer solstice, the fall, the autumn equinox, the winter, the winter solstice and other names of the eight seasons. These eight festivals are the most important of the twenty-four.

The Story

A long, long time ago, one year before spring, when people are ready to meet the spring, unexpectedly, the plague rose, making everyone infected with an indescribable disease. This disease is very strange, that look really like a drunk, everyone is heavy-headed, even lift the hands of the strength is not.

The day before spring, an old man dressed as a Taoist came to a village. He saw that the village was so quiet that he couldn't hear the chickens and dogs barking, not to mention that no one was moving around, which made him feel very strange. He rushed forward to inquire, the middle-aged man raised his eyelids, closed his eyes with a weak voice, said in a broken voice: "The whole village has a disease like me."

The Taoist broke into several houses, but the situation was the same. The Taoist was puzzled. So, he came to the east end of the village under an ancient tree, face south disk sitting, pick up a single palm, close the eyes meditation, mouth reciting words. Originally, he prayed to the Goddess of Mercy in the South China Sea for a cure for the plague. At this time, it was the next morning, the Taoist from the village of a family to find a large reed rooster, plucked a few chicken feathers, tied on the ground.

The plague was solved, and people lived a peaceful life again. From then on, the townspeople will eat a few slices of radish on the day of spring, in order to be safe. The custom of "biting the spring" was also formed, and continues to this day.

Taboo

1, married girls can not go back to her mother's house. Why? First of all, spring is the beginning of the year, the ancient woman is married to the in-laws, then can not bring the luck of the in-laws back to the mother's home. Moreover, if she went back to her mother's house in spring, she would have to marry again in the next spring. All of this seems to make no sense nowadays, and men and women are independent personalities, so there is no need to stick to it. The first thing you need to do is to go back to your mother's house in the spring, and then you can kiss your mother's house as well as your mother-in-law's house.

2, do not see the doctor. If you go to the doctor on the first day of spring, it means that you will have no good luck for a year. This argument is just to get a good luck, just like the first day of the year do not see a doctor, small problems delayed a little bit is nothing, that big disease do not see? People by the five elements of the gas, the day of the transition to spring, people are sick is a normal phenomenon, go to the doctor that is responsible for the body.

3, do not get a haircut, a haircut represents bad luck. For this taboo, it is worth considering, hair is a person's grass and trees, spring warming, grass and trees were born, just born of grass and trees to damage, which is not the operation of heaven and earth grass and trees to grow the reason, and then again, 365 days a year, why must choose to go to the haircut on this day? This habit should adhere to, this is to remind the world to follow the natural way of the five elements!

What are the customs of spring

1, wear spring chicken

Wearing spring chicken is an ancient custom of the people around Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province. Every year on the first day of spring, mothers use cloth to make a rooster about 3 centimeters long, sewn on the top of the child's hat, expressed wishes "Chunji (chicken)" on the first day of spring, women with threaded beans hanging on the horn of the cow, or with hemp beans withdrawn in the cow's body, that is to say, it can be made toddlers free from measles. The former is called "sacrifice child rash", the latter is called "scattered rash".

2, Pei Yanzi

Pei Yanzi is Chang'an, Guanzhong area people's ancient custom. Every year on the day of spring, people like to wear in front of the chest with colored silk cut into the "swallow", this custom from the Tang Dynasty, is still popular in the countryside. Because the swallow is the messenger of spring, but also a symbol of happiness and good fortune. So many rich people, are in their own hall room in the center or under the eaves, construction of the swallow nest.

3, hanging spring cob

Hanging spring cob is a traditional custom, circulating in Shaanxi Chengcheng area. Every year, on the day of spring, women use various colors of cloth locks to weave into cloth spikes, or use colorful threads to wrap into various forms of "wheat spikes". Then hang them on the bodies of children or young people, or on the bodies of livestock such as donkeys, horses and cows, in order to bless the coming year with good weather and a good harvest.

What are the customs of spring

Heat spring

This spring across the fire of the traditional ceremony, that is, "heat spring". "Heat spring" is a very ancient custom of the Chinese nation, according to historical records, as early as the pre-Qin period has been prevalent in the folk. Because of the spring will be out of the ground, burning firecrackers, burning camphor tree branches can dispel the yin gas, declared Yang Qi, help Yang Qi born, have to drive away evil and welcome the auspicious meaning, and children across the fire, it is more implies a safe growth of the good wishes. "After the ceremony of "scorching spring" is over, children will eat "spring tea", which is made of six ingredients such as red beans, red dates, cinnamon, Chenpi, cinnamon, brown sugar and other boiled ingredients. According to folk customs, after the spring, the child has grown a year, and ate "spring tea", in the new year, not only pray for life red-hot, but also to protect the children's healthy growth, peace and good luck.

Hiding spring

In traditional folklore, to the spring of this day should hide spring. Because of the spring this day, the climate began to change, the new atmosphere will have a negative impact on some people, or worse, will affect the luck of the year, so the custom of hiding spring appeared. In folklore, different places have different customs and taboos, which also extends a variety of `hiding spring methods and customs. Traditionally, it is customary not to have verbal disputes on the first day of spring, but to welcome the day in peace and harmony. There are even some local customs inside, hiding spring this day should not move, visit the sick and seriously ill patients and participate in the funeral, so as not to attract bad luck, affecting the luck of the whole year.

Whip Spring Cow

Whip Spring Cow, also known as the whip of the cattle, the origins of the earlier, and then has been preserved, but changed in the spring, prevalent in the Tang and Song dynasties, especially after the Song Renzong promulgated the "Cattle Scriptures," so that the whip of the cattle custom spread more widely, as an important element of folk culture. The significance of whipping spring cattle is not limited to sending cold air and promoting spring plowing. Shandong folk to break the earth cow, people scramble for the spring cattle soil, known as the spring, to grab the head of the cow for good luck. Plastic spring cow, often in the stomach stuffed with grains, when the cow was broken, the grains flowed out. People laughed and picked up the grains and put them back into their own barns, signaling that the barns were full of grain. Many rural villages have these customs today.

Jumang God

Jumang is the god of spring, i.e., the god of grass and trees and the god of life. The image of Jumang is a human face with a bird body, and he is in charge of the rules and regulations of spring. In the Zhou Dynasty, there are set up the East Hall to welcome the spring, indicating that the sacrifice of Jumang has a long history. Qing people let Lian wrote the "Kyoto Customs Zhi" said: "spring ceremony one day before ...... to welcome the spring cow Mang God into the Office of the House, built two reed shed, east and west each southward, east set Mang God, west set the spring cow, the image of colorful, all according to the thousands of branches, allowed to make men and women look at the time of spring ... ... ...the crowd of servants to beat and burn, so it is called playing spring." Then, people will snatch the pieces of the spring bull home, as auspicious.

Bite spring

Spring also has its own food, mainly spring cake, radish, five Xin plate, etc., in the South is popular to eat spring rolls, the market are a lot of hawkers selling spring rolls. Here are two points worth noting: one is that the past is considered to bite the spring is to eat radish, in fact, also includes eating spring cake; the second is the so-called spring is to welcome the meaning of spring. Why eat radish? The more common saying is that it can relieve spring sleepiness. In fact, the bite of spring is not limited to this, in addition to the relief of sleepiness, the main thing is to pass the gas, so that people stay young and not old. Wuxingpan is made up of five kinds of spicy food, blended with onion, garlic, pepper, ginger and mustard, and is used as a condiment for dining.

Welcoming Spring

Welcoming Spring is an important event of the Spring Festival, which should be prepared beforehand and then performed. It is performed on the day before the first day of spring to bring back spring and the god Jumang. A spring official is appointed to welcome the spring, and the position is filled by a beggar, or by an inferior person, and foretells the time of the spring. In the past in the annual imperial calendar, there are mang god, spring bull figure, the late Qing dynasty "point stone Zhai painting" on the "tortoise spring", "copper drums to drive away the epidemic", are the important activities of the Spring Festival day.

Ancestor worship

In many areas, the Spring Festival to worship ancestors. For example, Guangdong "Xin'an County Zhi" contains: "folk to be the day something in the ancestral ancestral shrine". In the spring of offering ancestors food is also more special. Henan "Ruyang County Zhi": "set spring feast, eat spring cake, recommended divination, pear."