Why do people always say that a year's plan lies in spring?

The key point here is the word "plan", which means to calculate and plan. This saying is the crystallization of the valuable experience of China's thousands of years of farming civilization, which contains a whole set of institutionalism, etiquette, astronomy, calendars, climatology, and a series of related cultures about farming.

What needs to be emphasized in particular is that it is completely wrong to interpret this sentence as only the spring of the year is very important, this is a fundamental misinterpretation of traditional Chinese culture and misunderstanding, is it the spring of the year is important, summer, fall and winter is not important? Is spring the only thing that needs to be counted in a year and summer, fall and winter don't need to be counted? Such an understanding is too literal and ignorant of the traditional Chinese culture.

Why is spring the key to a year? First of all, it is the calculation of the count, to use the knowledge of ancient astronomy, to project the calendar in the spring and the equinox of the specific date, and then according to the meteorological characteristics of the year, using the knowledge of ancient climatology, to project this year's start of the spring is on the warm side or cold side, early or late. Secondly, it is the planning, after calculating the astronomical calendar and meteorology after the planning, and is the national level planning, and covers the ancient farming ritual system, agricultural management system, and agricultural customs.

Because agriculture is the foundation of the country, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, for example, every year in the middle of spring on the day of the Ohio, the emperor should rate the hundred officials to the Temple of the First Farmer to sacrifice to the God of the First Farmer, and personally down to the field of the plough ploughing to show that the whole world to open the ploughing of the period, and to pray for the abundance of the five grains. Of course, due to the different latitudes, the day of spring and plowing varies from place to place. Every year in the third month of spring, the Emperor will also lead the hundred officials in the Prayer Valley altar, to pray for the ceremony.

At the same time, all levels of provinces, prefectures, states and counties of the agricultural officials, to the jurisdiction of the farmers and farmland, timely supervision of agricultural affairs and agricultural management. In the end, after the doctor's temple counting, the emperor's altar sacrifice, and the supervision of the agricultural officials, farmers around the world began to busy themselves with spring plowing and sowing, so the world's punctuality, the Chinese civilization of the four seas and the one family, has been able to continue for thousands of years to the present day.