Traditional Chinese Practices for Spring Equinox

1, standing egg: on the day of the spring equinox every year, all over the world will do "vertical egg" test. This is called "Chinese custom" play, but its play is really simple and fun: choose a smooth and proportionate, just laid four or five days of fresh eggs, gently on the table to put it up. Vernal equinox is the best time to erect the egg game, so there is a "spring equinox to, the egg is pretty" said.

2, send the spring bull: the spring equinox with the arrival of the time will appear from house to house to send the spring bull picture. The figure is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the lunar calendar throughout the year, but also printed on the farmer plowing patterns, the name is "spring oxen figure". The sender of the map are some folk good words singers, mainly say some spring plowing and good luck not against the farming season, although the words come out of the mouth, but every sentence has rhyme and sound. Commonly known as "say spring", say spring people will be called "spring official".

The vernal equinox is the fourth of the twenty-four solar terms and is an important time for farming. The sun shines directly on the Earth's equator, and day and night are almost equal. In ancient times, spring to summer was spring, and the vernal equinox is the middle of the three months of spring. The sun reaches 0 degrees of the yellow longitude and crosses the festival on March 19~22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "The equinox, yin and yang half. Therefore, the day and night are even and the cold and heat are even." Lunar calendar book records "Doo refers to non for the equinox, about the circumference of the day, the north and south hemispheres day and night are divided, but also when the spring half, so it is called the vernal equinox." From this day onwards, the position of direct sunlight gradually moved northward, the northern and southern hemispheres, the length of day and night also changed, the northern hemisphere, the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere, and the opposite of the day is long and the night is short.