What does it mean to swing in Hexi Spring Festival?

The meaning of swinging in Hexi Spring Festival is to welcome the New Year and be healthy and happy.

1. Swing can bring happiness and good luck to people. A high swing means a good life, so everyone is fighting for it and playing the swing happily. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

People in some places believe that swinging can drive away diseases. Swing is the favorite of people along the Weihe River. As the saying goes, "It's not long to walk around." It means to swing in spring and not to attract plague in autumn.

Therefore, after the Spring Festival every year, the custom of swinging has arisen in rural areas, which has a history of more than 2,000 years.

In the first month of the lunar calendar, a game of swinging began among the trees in Linxia mountain village. Swing, there are two basic postures, one is sitting on the crossbar, someone behind, swinging, flying not too high, this posture is suitable for children; The second is to stand on the horizontal board and use your own strength to make the swing fly quickly. This posture is most popular with adults.

The process of swinging:

All day long, swings are the positions of dolls. They suddenly spread their wings like eagles and want to fly into the blue sky. Suddenly close your eyes and sit sideways, slowly swing, and make a lot of noise and laughter until the lights are bright.

At night, the swing is the world of kannika nimtragol and big girl again. They are playing on the swing. They are quiet. In the dim night, I saw a charming figure flying in the air, with short hair like a flying horse mane, elegant and elegant; With a long braid, it is like a fish swimming back and forth, which is fascinating.

After everyone had a round, they began to play tricks. They suddenly stood face to face on the crossbar and were forced in the opposite direction during the flight. One by one, they cooperated very tacitly.

In the first month in Linxia mountain village, I flew on the swing, flying day and night until the fifteenth day of the first month.

When the torchbearer went up the mountain and the fire jumper entered the door, the owner of the swing came to the edge of the autumn trunk, slowly lifted it, looked up at the cross branch of the big tree, and with both hands, whooshed, threw the swing on the cross branch and set it up.

On the 16th day of the first month, the owner of the swing climbed the tree and took off the swing, and the annual swing ended.