When is the beginning of spring? What are the customs and taboos in beginning of spring?

February 3rd, 20021year is the arrival of the solar term in beginning of spring. As the first of the 24 solar terms, beginning of spring represents the official start of the new year, and the weather in beginning of spring will gradually get warmer. So what does beginning of spring stand for? What customs and concerns does it have? Let's take a look together.

What is the date of early spring? 202 1 Feb. 3, 2008.

Beginning of spring, the first of the 24 solar terms, is also known as the first month festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day. Standing means "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable 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 longitude 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, and the festival will be held from February 3 to 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

What to eat in beginning of spring during the Spring Festival? Spring Festival is one of the dietary customs in beginning of spring. Lettuce, melons, fruits, cakes and sugar are mainly given to relatives and friends (or eaten during the New Year) on a plate as vegetables. 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": "In spring, the lettuce in the spring vegetables is fine, and I suddenly think of the time when Beijing plum blossoms."

Spring cake: Spring cake is a pancake baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. At first, spring cakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring vegetables". The Song Dynasty's Chronology quoted the Tang Dynasty's Four Seasons Mirror as saying: "There will be an eclipse of radish, spring cake, lettuce and a spring dish in beginning of spring." Spring Roll (Spring Silkworm): At the Age of Years, Guangji: "A rich family in the capital works as a flour silkworm, which is called an official silkworm. It is also called "exploring spring silkworm" because it is carried out at the beginning of spring. " Bite spring (eat radish): Zen Heart in Ming Dynasty: "beginning of spring, no one chews radish, saying' bite spring'.

Beginning of spring solar terms customs 1, Spring Festival In order to welcome the spring, we first choose a piece of land with good geomantic omen in the suburbs of the county and set up a "spring shed" to prepare for the Spring Festival. Spring sheds are generally set on major traffic routes to facilitate the gathering of people. Put colorful flags around.

The Spring Festival is held on the same day in beginning of spring. The specific time is based on the almanac, sometimes during the day and sometimes at midnight. Spring Festival activities are generally carried on the parade of Spring Officials in the mighty ceremonial procession, which is unparalleled in the style of demonstration. There are also steamed buns and Emma, dressed in robes and jackets, or all kinds of strange clothes, sitting on the wooden poles carried by the two of them, playing and playing, which makes people laugh.

2. Go for a spring outing, and start to go for a spring outing after announcing the good news of 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 jumping, gongs and drums are loud and firecrackers are ringing. The parade was huge and spectacular. Go through villages, streets and alleys.

After entering the spring outing field (review field), the spring outing team swam around the field twice, and then lined up to stand on the arranged field. According to the traditional custom, there is a newspaper station, wearing strange clothes and holding a red and yellow flag. The first newspaper on the stage-"Good weather", the masses echoed in unison; The second newspaper, The Harvest of Grains, was echoed by the masses. The third newspaper, Peace and Prosperity, was echoed by the masses again. Everyone who comes to the newspaper has a reward.

3. Avoid Spring In traditional folklore, you should avoid spring when you arrive in beginning of spring. Because the climate in beginning of spring has begun to change, the new aura will have a negative impact on some people, and more importantly, it will affect the luck of a year, so the custom of hiding from spring has emerged. In the folk, different places have different customs and taboos, which also extends a variety of methods and customs to avoid spring.

The customs left over from tradition should not quarrel with each other on the day of early spring, but should meet in harmony and calm. In some places, it is not appropriate to take activities, visit seriously ill patients or attend funerals on the day of Tibetan spring, so as not to provoke bad luck and affect the luck of the whole year.

4. beginning of spring is the first solar term among the 24 solar terms, and the belief of occupying qi was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period. "The Book of Confucius and Ying Da": "Every spring and autumn equinox, winter and summer solstice, beginning of spring is long and summer is open, and beginning of autumn beginning of winter is closed. Take advantage of these eight days, you must go to the observatory and write about the clouds and things you see. If there is any change in the cloud, it is a demon of the old times, and it will be tested later. The person who wrote this book is also preparing for this. " Therefore, in the Spring and Autumn Period, at the beginning of the folk solar term in spring, climbing clouds and divination calculation have begun to become a custom.

The custom of posting spring cattle began before the beginning of spring. According to the traditional practice, the county government (county government) hired experts and craftsmen in paper binding in front of beginning of spring to get together in the county town and carefully make images of spring cattle. Generally, bamboo sticks are tied into the skeleton of a cow, spring wood is used as legs, paper is pasted and paint is applied, and the image of a cow is successfully made.

As the saying goes, there is a lot of red and yellow paper on it, and then there is a "bumper harvest". Paste on black paper, the harvest was not good that year. After the spring cattle were pasted, a ceremony was held to make the finishing point, that is, an incense table was set up and a bow was made to worship.

6. Playing with Spring Cattle There are spring cattle made of Sang Mu as the skeleton, which are specially used for the custom activities of "playing with spring cattle". On the morning after the winter solstice, people use clay to synthesize clay blank and carve it into the shape of a cow. Draw a pattern at 4: 08 and 360 days 12 hours. The day before the start of spring, officials and people offered sacrifices on the agreed agricultural altar.

Later, the county deacon personally whipped the "spring cow" to show the beginning of spring ploughing. Then, the masses began to plow the fields. Playing "Spring Cattle" while plowing, shouting: "A dozen good weather"; Two dozen copies of National Peace and Security; There are three dozen auspicious words, such as "the grain is abundant".

7. The ceremony of native land held at the beginning of ancient spring, the content of native land includes prayers for mother earth. Drinking together after the native ceremony is a prototype ritual custom of "group worship" and "New Year greetings" in later generations.

8. Chunshe Chunshe is a day to worship the land god in ancient spring. The Zhou Dynasty was the first day of junior high school, and most of them were held on the fifth day after beginning of spring. "The Book of Rites of Mingtang": "It's summer _, autumn flavor, winter sincerity, spring society, autumn province, and then big wax, offering sacrifices to the heavenly son." Before the Han dynasty, there were only spring festivals, and after the Han dynasty, there were spring festivals and autumn festivals, which were held around the vernal equinox and autumn equinox.

Social day is mainly about offering sacrifices to gods, and it also means gathering with neighbors. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Zonggu wrote Chronicle of Jingchu Age: "On the social day, the neighborhood became a comprehensive society, offering sacrifices to mash, living under a tree, offering sacrifices to the gods first, and then celebrating the past." Wang Jia, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Society Day": "Sang Zheying leaves the Spring Society and everyone is intoxicated." It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to offering sacrifices to the country, and later it became a custom passed down to later generations and became a sacrificial activity, which implied the multiplication of all things on the earth, praying and offering sacrifices, so as to make the six animals flourish and the grain harvest plentiful.

9. Posting Yichun calligraphy and painting Spring has arrived, and posting Yichun calligraphy and painting on the door wall has become a custom in Chang 'an in the Tang Dynasty. According to records, at the beginning of spring, Chang 'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted calligraphy and painting on their doors, with the words "Yichun" and "Yichun painting" on them.

Such as "Spring Festival", "Happy Spring", "Beautiful Spring" and "Blooming in Spring". Others put messages of wishes on the lintel to express their wish to welcome the spring. People who can draw often draw wintersweet on the lintel.

10, 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 with thread, or tear them off cows with beans, thinking that this will save children from measles. The former is called "barnyard grass rash" and the latter is called "scattered rash".

1 1. It is an ancient custom for people in Chang 'an and Guanzhong areas to wear swallows. 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.

In early spring every year, people like to wear "swallows", especially children. Their parents are ready for them. They put them on their chests and danced with their hands and feet, jumping with joy and joy.

12, it is a traditional custom to hang the spring ear and hang the spring ear, which is spread in Chengcheng, Shaanxi. 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.

13, ancestor worship In many areas, beginning of spring has to worship ancestors. For example, Guangdong's "Xin 'an County Records" says: "People are related to ancestral temples. "When I was in beginning of spring, the food for my ancestors was also very special." Henan Ruyang County Records said: "Have a spring banquet, spit spring cakes and recommend pears. In some places, beginning of spring's sacrifice is called "biting the spring".