"Spring equinox to, eggs are pretty." Spring Equinox this day half of the yin and yang, the easiest to stand up the egg, the reason is: Spring Equinox is the northern and southern hemispheres, day and night days, was 66.5 degrees tilted Earth's axis and the Earth's orbital plane around the sun is just in a relative balance of forces, is very conducive to the erection of the egg. Spring equinox eggs can be prosperous luck oh.

2, kite flying

Clear air rising, the breeze, the most suitable for kite flying. We can fly a kite to move the muscles and bones, to eliminate the "spring sleepy" and "depressed".

3, eat spring vegetables

"Spring equinox eat spring vegetables"." Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox to pick back the spring vegetable general family and fish "rolling soup", the name is "spring soup".

4, send the spring cow

Spring equinox is coming, then there will be sent from home to home spring cow 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".

5, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox day farmers are customary vacation, every family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, called sticky bird mouth, lest the birds to destroy the crops.

6, spring festival

February equinox began to sweep the tomb ancestor, also known as the spring festival. Before sweeping the tomb to hold a grand ancestral rites in the ancestral hall, please drummers play, by the ceremony read the text, with the lead in the line of three offerings.

The folk custom is to start sweeping tombs for ancestors, also called spring festival. At the beginning of the spring equinox tomb sweeping, first of all, sweeping the graves of the founding ancestors and distant ancestors, and then sweeping the graves of the ancestors of each house, and finally sweeping the private graves of each family. Southern Hakka region spring ancestor sweeping, are from the spring equinox or earlier when the start, the latest Qingming to end, after Qingming, the fire in the five luck has been launched, Yang Qi obviously enhance, time and space on the field of a kind of closure, the difficulty of information traffic, which caused the ancestors are difficult to enjoy the sacrifice, not to receive the children's gratitude and thanksgiving. Abiding by the laws of heavenly operation of the degrees of faith, keeping faith is an important law of ancient Chinese folklore.

7, the festival

The spring equinox is also a traditional festival. That is to say, on the day of the spring equinox to worship the sun, thanks to the sun to give this rite of moral energy and sunlight and light to the earth, promote the growth of all things on the earth. Therefore, in ancient times, there has been such a custom to worship the sun on the vernal equinox and the moon on the autumnal equinox.

Beginning with the sacrifice of the sun on the vernal equinox, the prelude to the spring festival is drawn. We should take the initiative on the day of the spring equinox to have this expression of gratitude to the Tao, virtue, heaven, earth, country, relatives, and teachers, and this is also called our spring drinking of blessings, a thanksgiving sacrifice for spring.

8, spring equinox eat sun cake

In ancient times, the spring equinox is a very important festival, every spring equinox this day, the emperor will lead the group of ministers, to welcome the sun, worship the sun. In folklore, there is the custom of eating sun cake on the spring equinox, which means "high sun". Folk customs believe that eating the sun cake on the spring equinox, can bring you good luck.