What are the folk customs in beginning of spring?

1, biting spring

On the day of "beginning of spring", people in China are used to eating radishes, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring". However, different local customs have different manifestations, and eating spring rolls is popular in the south. On the day of "beginning of spring", another food that people in China eat is radish. Because radish is spicy, it means that the ancients "bite the grass roots and can do anything."

2. Spring Festival

It is also a traditional custom to welcome spring at the beginning of spring. In the old custom of beginning of spring, the day before, two artists put on ribbons and shouted "Spring is coming" along the street, which is a traditional way to "herald spring". After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.

3. Spring

To "spring" means to "whip the spring cattle" to "urge the ploughing". Spring cattle can be divided into paper cattle and mud cattle. The man pretending to be a headstrong god whipped the spring cow three times with a whip wrapped in HongLing, which means "whipping the spring cow", which means to drive away the laziness of the spring cow and urge people to plant the land quickly when spring returns to the earth.

4. Dai Chun chicken

Dai Chun Chicken is an ancient custom of Tongchuan people in Shaanxi Province. Every year on beginning of spring Day, the mother will make a 3 cm long cock out of cloth and sew it on the child's hat to express her wishes for the "spring chicken". Women hang beans on horns or pull them off cows with thread, thinking that this can prevent children from getting measles. The former is called "barnyard grass rash" and the latter is called "scattered rash".

Step 5 wear a tuxedo

Wearing swallows is an ancient custom of people in Chang 'an and Guanzhong areas. At the beginning of every spring, people like to wear "swallows" cut with colored silk on their chests. This custom began in the Tang Dynasty and is still popular in rural areas. Because the swallow is the messenger of spring and a symbol of happiness and good luck. So many wealthy families build bird's nests in the middle of their own halls or under the eaves.

6. Hang the spring ear

Hanging spring ear is a traditional custom, which spreads in Chengcheng area of Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of each spring, women weave tassels with various colors of cloth, or wind colored threads into various forms of "ears of wheat". Then it can be hung on children or young people, and it can also be hung on animals such as donkeys, horses, cows, etc., in order to wish a good weather and a bumper harvest in the coming year.