What is the content of the spring folklore activities

One of them is to welcome spring

Welcoming spring is an important activity of the spring, which must be prepared beforehand and previewed, commonly known as the performance of spring. Then only on the day of spring officially welcome spring. It is carried out one day before the first day of spring, with the aim of bringing back the spring and the god Jumang. Spring officials are appointed to welcome spring, and the time of spring is foretold. In the past, there were pictures of the Jumang god and the spring bull on the annual imperial calendar, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the "turtle reporting spring" and "copper drums to drive away epidemics" on the "Point Stone Zhai Painting" were important activities on the Spring Festival Day of the Rising of the Spring Festival at that time.

Two, the spring community

Spring community is the ancient spring day of sacrifice to the gods of the land. Zhou Dynasty for the A day, and then more in the spring after the fifth E day held. "Rites - Mingtang bit" recorded: "is why the summer _, autumn taste, the winter prime minister, spring society, autumn province, and then the big wax, the sacrifice of the son of heaven." Before the Han Dynasty, there was only the Spring Society, but after the Han Dynasty, there were the Spring and Autumn Societies, which were held around the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. Social day to worship the gods, and also has the meaning of the gathering of neighbors. In the Southern Dynasty, Liang Zong懔《荆楚岁時记》, there are: "On the day of the society, the four neighbors and the combination of society, livestock and mash, for the house under the tree, the first sacrifice to the gods, and then entertained their yesterday." Tang Dynasty poet Wang Dai "social day" poem said: "mulberry and cudgel shadow slanting spring community scattered, home to help the drunken return." It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to the worship of the gods, and later became a custom passed on to future generations, becoming a sacrificial activity, meaning that the earth reproduces all things, prayers and sacrifices, in order to pray for the prosperity of the six animals, grains and cereals.

Three, playing spring

Playing spring that is playing spring cattle, also known as "whip spring cattle" "whip soil cattle", the spring will be clay spring cattle broken, which is the era of agricultural civilization of the legacy. By playing the custom of spring bull, remind farmers, spring has come, should not be against the farming season, timely sowing grain, praying for a year of bumper crops, the country and the people in peace.

The custom of whipping the spring is related to praying for a good harvest, and it is a more ancient custom. There is a spring bull made of mulberry wood as a skeleton, and it is a "bull" used exclusively for the customary activity of "beating the spring bull". In order to welcome the spring, first choose a piece of good Feng Shui land, set up a "spring shed", surrounded by colorful flags.

Playing spring cattle, also known as whip spring cattle, whip cattle, the origin of the earlier, prevalent in the Tang and Song dynasties, especially after the Song Renzong promulgated the "soil cattle scripture" to make the whip cattle custom spread more widely, as an important element of folk culture.