Customs and diet in early spring

Beginning of spring's customs and diet: welcome spring, paste spring cattle, eat spring vegetables, Tian Ai, spring cakes, spring rolls and bite spring.

First of all, the customs in beginning of spring.

1, Spring Festival

Beginning of spring is the beginning of spring, and the time sequence enters spring. At this time, although it is still chilly in spring, the cold winter has passed, spring has returned to the earth, everything has recovered, and nature is full of vitality. Therefore, the ancients attached great importance to beginning of spring, and had the instrument of welcoming the spring.

Spring Festival is an important activity that begins in spring, and it must be prepared and rehearsed in advance, commonly known as spring performance. Then we can officially celebrate the Spring Festival in beginning of spring. The Spring Festival was held the day before beginning of spring, with the aim of bringing back spring and Ju Mang. In the past, there were pictures of gods and spring cows in the imperial calendar every year, as well as "turtles reporting spring" and "bronze drums expelling epidemics", which were all important activities at the beginning of the Spring Festival at that time.

2, paste spring cattle

The custom of sticking spring cattle began before the beginning of spring. According to the traditional practice, the county government (county government) hired experts and craftsmen in paper binding to get together in the county town before the spring, and carefully made images of spring cattle. Generally, bamboo sticks are tied into the skeleton of a cow, spring wood is used as legs, paper is pasted and paint is applied, and the image of a cow is successfully made.

As the saying goes, there is a lot of red and yellow paper on it, and then there is a "bumper harvest". Paste on black paper, the harvest was not good that year. So the magistrate arranged to win people's hearts with red and yellow paper. After the spring cattle were pasted, a ceremony was held to make the finishing point, that is, an incense table was set up and a bow was made to worship.

Second, the beginning of the spring diet

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival is one of the eating customs in the beginning of spring, which mainly refers to vegetables with lettuce, melon, fruit, cake and sugar, which are given to relatives and friends or eaten by themselves to welcome the Spring Festival. There are five kinds of dishes: fruit, vegetables, candy, cake and bait. Vegetables mainly include: bean sprouts, radishes, leeks, spinach, lettuce, beans, eggs and shredded potatoes.

2. Tian Ai

Yellow is a common seasonal food in spring. Everything revives in spring, and the grass grows and the warblers fly. This is the heyday of Tian Ai's growth in the field of spring ploughing. Tian Ai is about 65,438+00 cm tall, with pink leaves, white flowers in the middle and green hairs all over.

3. Spring pancake

Spring pancake is a pancake baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. At first, spring cakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring vegetables".

4. Spring rolls

Guangji at the age of: "A wealthy family in the capital made silkworms, which were called' official silkworms'. It is also called "exploring spring silkworm" because it is carried out at the beginning of spring. "

Step 5 bite the spring

Zen Heart in the Ming Dynasty: "beginning of spring, no one chews radish, saying' bite the spring'."

The beginning of daily life in spring

The climate changes greatly in spring, and the weather is cold and warm. In early spring, the elderly and infirm should be extra cautious when changing clothes, and they should not suddenly reduce their clothes. In daily life, human qi and blood, like nature, need to stretch freely. Pay attention to the circulation of indoor air, and moderately open the window for ventilation.

Before and after beginning of spring, the spring breeze is blowing, which is a good time for people to walk outdoors, but many people are allergic to pollen, so they should avoid close contact with pollen when going out.