In 2022, the solar term in beginning of spring is 4: 50: 36 on February 4, 2022, on Friday, January 4, 2022.
Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. Beginning of spring is divided from astronomy, that is, when the sun reaches 315.
Beginning of spring is one of the important traditional festivals in China. "Li" means "start". Since the Qin Dynasty, China has been taking beginning of spring as the beginning of the Meng Chun season. The so-called "a year's plan lies in spring", spring is warm, birds and flowers are fragrant; Spring is growth, cultivation and sowing.
It has been more than 3,000 years since beginning of spring celebrated the Spring Festival, and China attaches great importance to it from the official to the folk. When he was in beginning of spring, the Emperor of Heaven personally led three officials and nine ministers, and the vassal doctors went to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and pray for a bumper harvest. When you come back, you should reward the ministers and make Bude order to show kindness to the people. This kind of activity influenced the common people, making it a spring festival activity for the whole people for generations to come.
Beginning of spring is one of the "Four Stands", which reflects the change of winter and spring seasons. Spring grows in summer, autumn harvests in winter, and beginning of spring marks that the winter when everything is closed has passed, and it has begun to enter the spring when everything is warm and sunny. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. As far as beginning of spring, the breath of early spring can be clearly felt in the Tropic of Cancer (Huang Chi Jiao Jiao) and its south. Because China has a vast territory, a large span from north to south, and the climate varies greatly from place to place, the calendar "beginning of spring" indicating seasonal changes is not applicable to all parts of the country, but it is only a reference for many areas.
What are the symptoms of beginning of spring?
According to records, the solar terms in beginning of spring mainly have "three periods", and the specific analysis is as follows:
As soon as the east wind thaws. It refers to that after beginning of spring, the spring breeze warms up, spring returns to the earth, the ice and snow melt, and the earth slowly begins to thaw.
"the second time the sting insect starts to vibrate." This refers to the insects that have been dormant in winter, and have already felt the warmth of spring, and have slowly awakened in the cave and started to move.
"Three times, the fish will be cold." Bloom is warm in spring, and the ice in lakes and rivers begins to melt with the warm weather. Fish also began to play in the water, and it looked like swimming in the water with ice cubes on their backs.
What traditional food does beginning of spring eat?
Spring pancake is also known as pancake and lotus leaf cake in Shandong. It can be eaten with roast duck in the banquet, and rolled with scallion and paste in the next. It is attached to the daily life of the people, and it is the "universal product" in the cake, which is deeply loved by the people. Green onions are spicy, which is one of the five spices. Spring cakes are eaten with five spices, which is the legacy of ancient beginning of spring diet. Spring rolls have become a worldwide food today. Where there are restaurants in China, there are spring rolls. Spring rolls are even regarded as the representative of China food in Germany. Of course, the spring rolls here have no direct relationship with beginning of spring, so they don't have to be eaten only in beginning of spring. Most people don't know that spring rolls were originally associated with beginning of spring and used to be a holiday food in beginning of spring.
In the Qing Dynasty, when the Spring Festival comes, people usually eat raw crispy radish, thinking that this can relieve the spring sleep. The custom of biting radish during the Spring Festival in Beijing is very popular. Every household should prepare a large and symmetrical radish to bite. This kind of radish, commonly known as "water radish", is only available for raw food. This kind of radish is "extremely crisp", and some poets have praised it as "biting spring radish and pear crisp", which is really attractive. And careful taste, not only tastes good, but also can lift the spirit and relieve boredom. No wonder it is so favored by people. In addition, some wealthy families also eat spring cakes and spring plates, which is also called biting spring. Compared with simply biting a radish, it is much more elegant and exquisite.
Eating lettuce every day in beginning of spring is a custom in ancient China. Many notes of people in the Jin and Tang Dynasties said, "There was an eclipse of reed, spring cake and lettuce in beginning of spring." Raphanus sativus is radish, spring cake is pancake, and lettuce is a wild vegetable born in spring. Nowadays, carrots are eaten raw in the north and lettuce is eaten raw in the south. It is said that "biting spring" can make people healthy in the new year. Lettuce is a kind of vegetable commonly eaten by Chinese and westerners. It can ripen all year round, but it is best to eat it in spring. It is both a seasonal vegetable and the most tender in taste. Lettuce is a kind of lettuce vegetable, which contains lettuce element, which has the effect of calming and reducing fire.