The beginning of spring in 2020 is February 4th. You can visit relatives, but it varies from place to place. Returning to my parents' home has no impact.
Welcoming the Spring Festival is an important activity at the beginning of spring. Preparations must be made in advance and a rehearsal is carried out, commonly known as spring performance. Then we can officially welcome the spring on the day of Beginning of Spring. The Spring Festival is held on the day before the beginning of spring, with the purpose of bringing back spring and the God of Jumang. The Spring Festival cattle in Zhejiang have their own characteristics. When welcoming the spring ox, kowtow to the spring ox in turn. After paying homage, the people swarmed forward, smashed the spring cattle into pieces, took the soil from the spring cattle back home, and spread it in the cattle pens. It can be seen from this that whipping the spring cattle is also a kind of breeding witchcraft, that is, after the spring cattle soil has been used to welcome the spring, spreading it in the cattle pen can promote the reproduction of cattle.
The activity of whipping spring oxen embodies the people's beautiful yearning for spring, just like the words read by the state officials when whipping spring oxen: one dozen will bring good weather, two dozen will make the land fertile, three will bring prosperity, four will bring prosperity. May you have peace in all seasons, good harvests in five, good spring in six, seven stars in seven, auspiciousness in all directions, peace in nine states, and perfection in ten. The activity of whipping spring cattle not only brings the joy of spring to the people, but also plays a positive role in organizing agricultural production and achieving a bumper harvest in the coming year.