Why do we eat spring rolls on the first day of spring? What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

With the passage of time, people for the traditional festival seems to gradually fade away, but also gradually ignored, even if it is now close to the Spring Festival, but still do not feel a little taste of the New Year, it seems that China's traditions have been forgotten by the world, but the spring is the first of the twenty-four festivals, it is never to be forgotten, February 4, 2018 is the spring, so what are the customs of the spring?

1, spring eating spring rolls biting spring

Every year around February 4 is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, spring, spring in people's minds means the arrival of warmth, but also means that everything grows, farmers sow seeds. On the day of spring, folk have the custom of eating spring cakes and spring rolls. In the Guanzhong Ji written by Pan Yue of the Jin Dynasty, it is recorded: "(Tang people) made spring cakes on the day of spring, wrapped in spring artemisia, yellow leeks and polygonum sprouts." The time of spring in 2018: 2018 February 4, Sunday.

In fact, the custom of eating spring rolls on the first day of spring originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "biting spring". Because the spring, spring, everything is recovering, all kinds of vegetables send out shoots, people taste fresh, the ancients will be wrapped in seasonal vegetables, rolled into a roll steamed or deep-fried, named spring rolls, implying that the five grains, and the dough made into a round, is a symbol of the family reunion, celery and leek stuffing, but also implies that people are more industrious (celery) labor, life is more long (leek).

The spring will come, we may wish to eat at home to eat spring rolls, both stomach, refreshing, but also to taste the taste of spring. Spring to eat spring rolls, is the people of "a year's plan in the spring" of the good wishes. Spring rolls are a festive food often eaten on the day of spring. This food is a thin crust filled, deep-fried and made. The specific production method is: flour and paste, put some in the bottom of the pan, burn with the fire, when rotating the pan, made of thin spring rolls like cicadas skin, and then wrapped with filling, rolled into a long tube about two inches long, the ends to the batter to stick to the floating oil to fry to the outside of the burnt, tender, colorful and flavorful. Spring roll skin is usually wheat flour, but also used egg skin, tofu skin.

Recommended practice of a spring roll:

Raw materials: spring roll skin, capers, dried tofu, carrots, asparagus, wet starch, ketchup;

practice:

1, capers, dried tofu, carrots, asparagus, cleaned and cut into cubes standby;

2, the pot into a moderate amount of oil and heat. Put dried tofu, carrots, asparagus, capers fried, sheng out;

3, the spring pancake skin on the board, put the filling, rolled together, folded at the ends, and finally rolled into about two inches and six minutes long, eight minutes wide small rectangular packet, and finally sealed with wet starch;

4, the pan into the oil boiled to seventy-five mature, will be spring rolls into the pot frying with chopsticks and constantly flipping, about two minutes after the golden brown, pick up! Plate;

5, a plate of crispy fresh, crispy and tender, excellent taste of chestnut spring rolls came out, eat with sweet sauce, ketchup and so on can be.

Using chopsticks to clip the hot spring rolls to the mouth to savor, then, lips and teeth, tongue, heart, must be the warmth of spring flavor. Spring will come, and family members in the hot air in the dense eating fried spring rolls, really body warmth, the joy is also melting ah.

2, what are the customs of spring

Welcome spring

Welcome spring is an important activity of spring, must be prepared beforehand, preview, commonly known as acting spring.

Welcoming spring is carried out on the day before the first day of spring, the purpose is to bring back the spring and the god Jumang. The spring officials, who are either beggars or prostitutes, are appointed to the position and foretell the time of 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 Spring Festival over the important activities of the day.

Ancestor Sacrifice

In many areas, the Spring Festival is to worship ancestors. For example, the Guangdong Xin'an County Record states, "Folks have something to do at the ancestral shrine on this day."

The food offered to ancestors in the spring is also more special. Henan "Ruyang County Zhi" contains: "set spring feast, eat spring cake, recommended divination, pear."

Lingying County Records of the spring festival is called "Bite Spring".

Bite spring

The spring also has its own food, mainly spring cake, radish, five Xin plate, etc., in the south is popular to eat spring rolls, there are a lot of vendors selling spring rolls on the market. 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; two is the so-called spring is to welcome the meaning of spring. Why eat radish? The more common saying is that it can solve the spring sleepiness. In fact, the bite of spring is not limited to this, in addition to the relief of sleepy, mainly through 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.

After the beginning of spring, people like to go out for spring tour in the warm days of spring, commonly known as going out of the city to explore spring and trekking in spring, which is the main form of spring tour.

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's body, enforcing the rules and mastering spring affairs. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was the East Hall to welcome spring, indicating that the sacrifice of Jumang has a long history. Qing people let Lian wrote the "Kyoto Customs" said: "spring ceremony one day before welcoming the spring cow Mang God into the government office, build reed shed two, east and west each southward, east set Mang God, west set the spring cow, the image of colorful, all according to a thousand branches, allowed to make men and women look longitudinally, to the spring of the service to play the burning, so it is called to play the spring." Then, people will snatch the pieces of the spring bull home, considered auspicious.

The day before the spring in Zhejiang region have to welcome the spring. On the day before the first day of spring, the god Jumang was carried out of the city to the mountain, and at the same time, the god was sacrificed to the year of the tiger. Welcome to the god held more than a large class drumming, lifting the cabinet, theater, rice-planting songs, playing cattle and other activities. Carried from the countryside into the city, people gathered to watch, scrambling to throw grains, so-called look at the spring. Shandong spring festival Jumang, according to Jumang's clothing to predict the year's climate conditions: wearing a hat is a sign of spring warmth, bald head is a sign of spring cold, wearing shoes is a sign of spring rain, barefoot is a sign of spring rain less. In other areas, they put up New Year's paintings such as "Spring Breeze". In Guangzhou, before and after the Spring Festival, drums are beaten to drive away epidemics and pray for peace.

Whip the spring cattle

Whip the spring cattle, also known as whip 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 the Song Renzong promulgated the "soil cattle scripture" after the whip the cattle custom spread more widely, as an important element of folk culture. The significance of whipping spring cattle, not limited to send cold, promote spring plowing, but also has a certain witchcraft significance. Shandong folk to break the earth cow, people scramble for spring cattle soil, called 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 are full of grain. In addition, there are tea picking and sacrificing to the spring cow activities, Hubei region also held a turtle to report spring activities. Nowadays, in some rural areas still have "whip spring cow" custom.

Zhejiang region to welcome the spring cow has its own characteristics. Welcome spring cow, kowtow to the spring cow in turn. After worship, the people swarmed up, the spring cow broken, grab the spring cow soil home, scattered in the cattle pen. This shows that the whip spring bull or a breeding witchcraft, that is, after welcoming the spring bull soil, sprinkled in the cattle pen can promote the reproduction of cattle.

The spring season, folk artists will also make many small clay cow, known as the "spring cow", sent to the family, known as "send spring". There are also places in the wall to paste a picture of the yellow paper with a spring cow. Yellow on behalf of the land, the spring bull on behalf of agricultural affairs, commonly known as the "spring bull map". Later, according to the calendar, people projected the time of the year spring, in the spring ox figure expressed, to help farmers understand the early and late spring.

Hiding Spring

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

"Hiding spring" is actually "hiding the year of the year", most of the people who are guilty of the year of the year need to hide spring. For example, in 2015, the day of spring at 11:59 am, officially entered the year of the sheep, in terms of mythological color, is the year of the horse in 2014, the star of the year Zhang word generals formally out of office, as well as the year of the sheep in 2015, the star of the year of the star of the year of the Yang Xian generals formally took office of the time of the alternation. Folklore that, for example, the Year of the Sheep Chinese Zodiac belonging to the sheep, cattle, rats, dogs and other offenders of the Year of the Year of the Ox, is the need to "avoid the spring" of the list, is to avoid the Year of the Year of the Sheep with the Taiyi positive conflict, and ease the relationship with the Taiyi Xingjun, and so the year more favorable luck.

_Chun

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

Worshipping Tai Sui

Taiwan's main Taoist temple, the Xuanyi Palace, pointed out that there were originally 60 jiazi gods in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and that because of the close relationship between Tai Sui and jiazi, the 60 jiazi gods were replaced by 60 tai tao, which are now enshrined in temples throughout the world.

The first time a temple was built, it had a history of being a place of worship, and it is now a place of worship.

Tai Sui culture has been integrated with fortune-telling, feng shui and Chinese zodiac since ancient times. For example, in the Song Dynasty, it was written in the book "Abyssinian Sea Ziping" that "Tai Sui is the son of heaven in the year, so you can't commit the crime, and if you do, it will be bad". Ming Dynasty "three life" said: "the real taiyou, also known as the turn of the toe brake, to the main day and taiyou and smooth, the year is auspicious; if the value of the criminal rushing broken harm, and taiyou and the war will be fierce." With the taiyue smooth is auspicious, contrary to the vicious. Also said, "The Tai Sui, is a year of the master, the leader of the gods. Tai Sui when the head of a disaster, torture and destruction of ghosts push mill, the current year, if also meet the jealousy of God, head broken and blood can not be avoided." Yuan Shushan, a fortune teller in the late Qing Dynasty, said, "The taiyou, the supreme, non-fatal also." In the south of the Yangtze River, there is also the custom of enshrining Tai Sui, mainly to improve the feng shui of the home. As the saying goes, "the head of the tai tao does not move the earth", which is often found in books on feng shui and other subjects. Due to the fear of the Han people on the Tai Sui disaster, when the Tai Sui runs to the position of a certain zodiac, belonging to the zodiac and its relative zodiac, fear of anger in their own bad, in order to worship the Tai Sui God, in order to pray for blessings to eliminate the disaster, this activity is known as the An Tai Sui.

Officially, on the first day of spring every year, the gods of spring, the spring ox, the god of man and the year of the tiger are worshipped in the ceremony of welcoming spring. Folks also pay attention to the spring festival and worship the god of the year, for example, in Zhejiang Province, on the day before the spring festival, the god of the year carries the Jumang God out of the city to the mountains, and at the same time sacrifices to the god of the year. Tai Sui is the god of the year, sitting in charge of the year, in charge of the year's faults, so the folk also offer more. Bazi feng shui and other fields of art also believe that to worship Tai Sui on the day of spring, the media reported every year. Of course, the folk will also be in the first day of the first month of the New Year, the eighth, fifteenth and other times to worship Tai Sui.

Janqi

Lichun is the first of the twenty solar terms, and the belief of janqi was already formed during the Spring and Autumn period. Kong Yingda sparring: "Where the spring and autumn equinoxes, the winter and summer solstice, the spring and summer for the opening, the autumn and winter for the closing, with the eight sections of the day, will be mounted on the Observatory, the book of the clouds they see the color of the air. If there is a cloud variation, it is the age of the demon of auspicious both see, it will be tested afterward, the book, for the sake of preparedness." Thus, the Spring and Autumn period in the spring of the folk festival, ascent to watch the clouds, divination and calculation has been as a custom began to take shape.

The folk is to spring day and hour for the beginning of the year's agricultural activities, the common thought that the spring should be clear and not cloudy. If the day is clear on behalf of the future of the year is a bumper harvest of the year, the country, the people, the wind and the rain; if it is cloudy or rainy, on behalf of the future of the year is not too smooth, the crops will not have a good harvest, so the folk have a "sunny all things are auspicious, Yin Nai everything is worrying," the saying. This is a folk saying.

In addition, in ancient China, there is a way to predict the new year's agricultural harvest from the spring. Ancient books, "accounting for the spring of good and bad luck" of the song: "rich and valuable in God's day, ten years close together, but look at the spring day, A B is a year of abundance, C Ding partial drought, E He is a good harvest, Geng Xin people and horses diligently, Nong Kui water in the sky." Meaning that, from the day of the spring day of the day pillar of the heavenly stem, can be seen in this year's agricultural harvest of good or bad. In the traditional farming society, the agricultural harvest is good or bad, will determine the year's good or bad luck. Specifically: if the spring day of the day column of the heavenly stem is a wood, ethyl wood, then, this year is a year of harvest; and if it is c fire, ding fire, then, there may be a big drought; if it is wu earth, hexadecimal earth, then, there is a good harvest; if it is geng gold, xin gold, then, it is also a year of harvest, men and horses are not allowed to leisure; but if it is non-non-water, decanter, then, it is possible to suffer from a big flood.

Tour of Spring, Spring Report

Tour of Spring begins after the Spring Report, and the drums and gongs and honor guards of each village and community walk in front, and a huge statue of a spring bull carried by four or eight people walks behind. Walking and dancing, drums and gongs, firecrackers. The procession is very spectacular. Touring the surrounding villages, streets and alleys.

The procession of spring into the spring field (parade ground), around the field swim two laps, and then each stand in formation in the arrangement of the field. At this time, the governor is invited to sit in the spring shed, the spring ceremony. According to traditional custom, there is a spring platform, dressed in fancy dress newspaper, hand-held red and yellow colored flags, the first newspaper on the field - "good weather", the masses echoed; the second newspaper - "a bumper crop", the masses also echoed; the third newspaper - "national peace and prosperity", the masses and then echoed in the same voice. Every person who comes to the newspaper are rewarded.

Chunshe

Chunshe is the ancient spring day to worship the land god. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was held on the A day, and later it was mostly held on the fifth E day after the beginning of spring. Rites - Mingtang bit": "Therefore, summer _, autumn taste, winter Excel, spring society, autumn province, and then the big wax, the son of heaven's sacrifice." 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《荆楚岁時記》："Social day, 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: "mulberry and cudgel shadow slanting spring community scattered, home help get drunk people 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, the five grains.

Posted Yichun calligraphy and painting

Spring is here, to the door wall posted Yichun calligraphy and painting, this custom in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. According to records: spring day, Chang'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted on the door to welcome the spring wish good luck calligraphy and painting, the word called "Yichun word", painting called "Yichun painting". Such as "welcome spring", "spring color is pleasant", "spring is bright", "spring blossoms" and so on. There are also people who post a message on the lintel of the door to express their willingness to welcome spring. If you know how to paint, often give the lintel painting a "plum picture".

Wearing Spring Chickens

Wearing spring chickens 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 the wish "Chunji (chicken)" on the first day of spring, women with a line through the beans hanging in the cow's horn, or with hemp beans withdrawn in the cow's body, that is, you can make the young children free from measles. The former is known as "avoid child rash", the latter is known as "scattered rash".

Pei Yanzi

Pei Yanzi is an ancient custom of the people in Chang'an and Guanzhong. Every year on the day of spring, people like to wear "swallows" cut out of colored silk on their chests, a custom that began in the Tang Dynasty and is still popular in the countryside. Because the swallow is the messenger of spring, but also a symbol of happiness and good fortune. Therefore, many rich people build swallows' nests in the center of their own halls or under the eaves, as long as you can build a small page of matting under the purlins of the court room or on the walls of the eaves, and write the words "Spring Swallows" on it, the swallows can build their own nests. Swallows are migratory birds, flying to the north in spring and to the south in fall. "They don't eat your grain, they don't eat your millet, and they only hold a nest of sons in your house." So sunny people like to invite swallows to breed in their courtyards and houses. Every year on the day of spring, people like to wear "swallows", especially children, parents have long prepared for him (her), they wear in front of the chest, the hands of the dance, the feet of the dance, excited, jumping more than.

Hanging Spring Spike

Hanging Spring Spike is a traditional custom, which has been passed down in the area of Chengcheng, Shaanxi Province. Every year, on the day of the first 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 they 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.

Single paste on the wall, used to suppress and kill poisonous scorpions. Such as writing: "rain in March, the heavenly master to the door. Holding the seven-star sword in his hand, he kills the scorpion spirit." The people of Baishui County had similar activities on the Grain Rain Festival, such as writing on the yellow sheet, "On the day of Grain Rain, in the morning of Grain Rain, we invite the Great General of Grain Rain. Three cups of tea, three rounds of wine, and the scorpion immediately turns into dust." It was used to drive away poisonous scorpions. People in the Xixiang area of Shaanxi Province whip the four walls with willow branches every year at dawn on Guyu Day to avoid poisonous scorpions.

Maybe a lot of people have forgotten the custom of Lichun, but Lichun is to send the winter to welcome the spring, in fact, many people will remember, after all, after the winter, the weather will become warmer, which is really good news for us, but in addition to knowing this, I should also follow the tradition, pick up the traditional customs, the Lichun Spring Festival weather will be taken seriously.