Customs of Spring Equinox:

1, Spring Eggs

It is said that on the day of the Spring Equinox every year, tens of millions of people all over the world do the test of "erecting an egg". As early as 4,000 years ago, China had a tradition of erecting eggs on the vernal equinox to celebrate the arrival of spring. It evolved into a tradition of praying for good luck.

2, worship

Folk festivals around the spring equinox include February 15, the birthday of the Sage King of Zhangzhou: the Sage King of Zhangzhou, also known as the "Sage King of Chen", for the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, a scholar of the martial arts, Zhangzhou, after his death became the guardian deity of Zhangzhou. February 19th is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On this day, believers go to the Guanyin temples to pay homage to the Bodhisattva. February 25th King of the Three Mountains Festival: The King of the Three Mountains is the god of the three mountains of Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Dushan, Mingshan and Towel Mountain, which was patronized by the Hakka immigrants from Chaozhou in the early years of their lives, and thus the believers are predominantly of Hakka origin.

3, sticky bird mouth

Spring Equinox this 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 fine bamboo fork skewer placed outdoors in the field edge of the ground, the name of the sticky bird mouth, lest the bird to destroy the crops.

The origin of the equinoxes:

The equinoxes are the midpoint of the ninety days of spring. One of the twenty-four solar terms. The day when the sun is located in the yellow longitude 0 (vernal equinox). Spring equinox this day, the old direct Earth's equator, the northern and southern hemisphere seasons are opposite, the northern hemisphere is the spring equinox, in the southern hemisphere is the autumnal equinox

According to the "moon order seventy-two wait collection": February in the middle of the month, the points of the half is also, this is when ninety days said the half, so it is called the points. Another "Spring and Autumn flourish dew? Yang in and out of the upper and lower parts" said: "the spring equinox, yin and yang half also, so the day and night perch and cold department flat. Phew have "Ming history? Calendar a" said: points, yellow and red intersection of the point, the sun line to this, is the day and night evenly divided.