What are the customs of spring?

Customs of Spring: Biting Spring, Welcoming Spring, Playing Spring.

1, bite the spring

"Spring" this day, Chinese folk used to eat radish, ginger, green onions, flour cakes, known as "bite the spring". But different customs in different parts of the world have different performance, in the south is popular to eat spring rolls. "Spring" this day, China's folk bite spring another food is radish. Because the radish flavor spicy, take the ancient "bite the grass roots broken, then all things can be done" meaning.

2, welcome spring

The spring "welcome spring" is also a traditional custom. The old custom of the day before the spring by two artists top crown decorated with shouting along the street: "spring is coming", is the traditional "spring". After the spring, people in the spring blossom days, like to go out in the spring, commonly known as out of the city to explore the spring, spring, which is also the main form of spring tour.

3, playing spring

"Playing spring", is to "whip the spring cattle" to "urge farming". Spring bulls have a paper cow and mud cow points, dressed as the god of the man with red silk wrapped whip to whip the spring bull three times, that is, "playing the spring bull", meaning to beat away the laziness of the spring bull, urging people to return to the ground in the spring when the time to hurry up the plow.

Spring meteorological changes

Spring season, East Asia, the south branch of the westerly rapids have begun to weaken, but the north branch of the westerly rapids strength and location of the basic did not change, the Mongolian cold high-pressure and the Aleutian low pressure is still relatively strong, but in the strong cold air impact of the gap, the frequency of southerly winds increased, and accompanied by a significant rise in temperatures process.

From the beginning of the Spring Festival, the time sequence has entered the spring, in the natural world as well as in people's minds, "spring" means the wind and warmth of the day, means that everything is recovering. In the spring, in the natural world, the most significant feature is that everything began to have signs of recovery.

The spring, China's winter and spring demarcation line (the average daily temperature for five consecutive days of 10 degrees Celsius or more counted as spring), in Guangxi Guilin to Jiangxi Ganzhou line. The area south of that line, spring has the breath of spring, but 93% of China's land area is still winter, to Heilongjiang, often in the valley of the rain when the summer into spring. The so-called spring, but also just some "intention".

During spring, temperatures begin to rise, sunshine and rainfall begin to increase. But for most of the country, it's just a prelude to spring.