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Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, also known as the first month festival, the New Year festival, the New Year festival and the New Year festival. Stand, meaning "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. The twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "changing stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches the longitude of 3 15 degrees, it is beginning of spring, from February 3 to 5 in the solar calendar every year.
What is the date of early spring?
Spring plate: Spring plate is one of the dietary customs in beginning of spring. Mainly refers to putting vegetables, lettuce, melon and fruit cakes and sugar on a plate to make spring vegetables (or combined plates) to feed relatives and friends or eat their own dishes to welcome spring. 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. Du Fu's beginning of spring: "Lettuce in spring vegetables suddenly remembers when those two Jingmei were born."
Spring cake: Spring cake is a pancake made of flour, which is usually eaten with rolled vegetables. At first, spring cakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring vegetables". The Song Dynasty's Year of the Year quoted the Tang Dynasty's Four Seasons Mirror: "beginning of spring eats radish, spring cakes and lettuce, which is the first of spring dishes." Spring Roll (Spring Silkworm): At the Age of Years, Guangji: "A rich family in Beijing worked as a flour silkworm, named' Official Silkworm'. It is also called "exploring spring silkworms" because it is conducted in beginning of spring. " Bite spring (eat radish): Zen Heart in Ming Dynasty: "In beginning of spring, no one chewed radish, so it was called" bite spring ".
What does beginning of spring eat?
Beginning of spring solar terms custom
In order to welcome the Spring Festival, we should first choose a land with good feng shui in the suburbs of the county and set up a "spring shed" to prepare for the Spring Festival. Spring sheds are usually built on main roads, so people are easy to gather. Put colorful flags around.
Spring Festival activities are held in beginning of spring on the same day, and the specific time is subject to the calendar, sometimes in the morning and sometimes at midnight. Generally, the Spring Festival activities are held in the mighty ceremonial procession, and the spring officials are arranged in a demonstration queue, which is very imposing. In addition, there are steamed buns, Ma Jie and so on. Wearing robes and jackets, or wearing all kinds of strange clothes, sitting on the wooden barbell carried by the two of them, playing and acting, making people laugh.
1, Spring Festival
Spring outing begins after the Spring Festival. The gongs and drums teams and honor guards of the villages and clubs walked in front, and the huge statue of spring cattle carried by four or eight people walked behind. Walking and dancing, gongs and drums are loud and firecrackers are ringing. The parade was spectacular. Visit the surrounding villages, streets and lanes.
After entering the spring outing field (review field), each spring outing team swam around the field twice, and then stood in line on the arranged field. According to the traditional custom, there is a newspaper during the Spring Festival. Newspapers wear strange clothes and hold red and yellow flags. The first newspaper on the stage, Good Weather, was echoed by the masses. The second newspaper, Harvest, received a response from the masses. The third newspaper, Guotai Min 'an, was echoed by the masses. Everyone who comes to the newspaper will be rewarded.
2. You Chun and Bao Chun
In traditional folklore, when spring comes, you should hide in spring. Because the climate in beginning of spring began to turn over on this day, the new weather will have a negative impact on some people, and more importantly, it will affect the luck of the year, so the custom of avoiding spring appeared. In the folk, different places have different customs and taboos, which also extends a variety of methods and customs to avoid spring.
The custom left over from tradition is impossible every day since beginning of spring.
Step 3 avoid spring
Sticking Spring Cattle is a custom activity that started before beginning of spring. According to the traditional practice, the county government (county government) hired experts and craftsmen to bind paper, gathered in the county town before the spring, and carefully produced images of spring cattle. Generally, the skeleton of a cow is tied with bamboo strips, the legs are made of spring wood, and then the image of a cow is successfully made with paper and pigment paste.
It is said that there is a lot of red and yellow paper on ordinary paste, which achieved a "bumper harvest" that year; Paste black paper, the harvest was not good that year. After the beef sauce is made in spring, there will be a ceremony to open your eyes and close your eyes, that is, a incense table and a worship ceremony.
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There is a kind of spring cattle made of Sang Mu as the skeleton, which is a "cow" specially used for the custom of "beating spring cattle". On the second day of the winter festival, soil was taken to synthesize clay blank and carved into the shape of a cow. Draw a pattern at 4 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 360 degrees, 12 o'clock. On the day before spring, officials and people offered sacrifices on the agreed agricultural altar.
Later, the county deacon personally plowed the fields and whipped the "spring cattle" to show the beginning of spring ploughing. Next, the masses plow the fields. While plowing the land, I hit "Spring Cattle" and shouted: "More than a dozen fine weather"; 2. Play "Guotai Anmin"; "Harvest" and other three auspicious words.
From A.D. 10 10 to A.D. 10 10, the ceremonies held at the beginning of ancient spring included praying for Mother Earth. After the ceremony in the native land, it is a major ritual custom for later generations to get together and drink.
5, paste spring cattle
Spring Festival is a day to worship the land god in ancient spring. On behalf of Sunday, it will be held on the fifth day after beginning of spring. : "Because, autumn is long, Dongcheng, Chunshe, autumn province, and wax, sacrifice to Tian Zi." Before the Han Dynasty, there was only the Spring Festival, and after the Han Dynasty, there were Spring Festival and Autumn Equinox, which were held around the vernal equinox and autumn equinox.
Social day is mainly used to worship the gods, and it also means gathering with neighbors. The Book of Confucius and Ying Da written by Emperor Zongba of the Southern Dynasties: "On the social day, the neighborhood formed a comprehensive society to offer sacrifices to the mash. For the house under the tree, they worshipped God first, and then celebrated yesterday. " In the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jia's poem "Ritual Hall", he wrote: "Sang Zheying is scattered in the spring, and every family helps others to be intoxicating." It can be seen that the ancients attached importance to sacrificing the country. Later, it became a custom passed down to later generations, and it became a sacrificial activity, which implied that all things on the earth would multiply, pray for sacrifice, pray for the prosperity of six animals and the bumper harvest of grains.
6, playing spring cattle
When spring comes, it is a custom to post Yichun calligraphy and painting on the door wall of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty. According to records, in the early spring, Chang 'an people in the Tang Dynasty often put calligraphy and painting on their doors to show the Spring Festival, which is called "Yichun Word" and this painting is called "Yichun Painting".
Such as "welcome the spring", "pleasant spring", "beautiful spring" and "spring blossoms". Others put messages of wishes on the lintel to express their wishes for the Spring Festival. People who can draw often draw a picture of Jing Chu's age on the lintel.
7. Yoshida
Dai Chun chicken is an ancient custom of Tongchuan people in Shaanxi. Every early spring, the mother made a 3 cm long cock out of cloth and sewed it on the child's hat to express her wishes for "Ji Chun (Chicken)". In the spring, women hang beans on the horns of cows with thread, or take beans from cows with beans, thinking that this can prevent children from getting measles. The former is called "barnyard grass rash" and the latter is called "scattered rash".
8. Spring society
Pei Yanzi is an ancient custom of people in Chang 'an and Guanzhong areas. Every early 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 auspiciousness.
Every early spring, people like to wear "swallows", especially children, whose parents are ready. They wear them on their chests, dancing and in high spirits.
9. Paste Yichun calligraphy and painting
Hanging spring ears is a traditional custom, in which