Go outing and fly kites, eat spring vegetables, lay eggs, send spring cattle, and stick sparrows in their beaks.

1. Outing and flying kites. After the Spring Equinox, people begin to go outing one after another. Among outdoor activities, kite flying is an important item.

Kite was called "Harrier" and "Kite" in ancient times. "Harrier" and "Kite" are both hawks and raptors. In ancient times, kites were mostly made of silk or paper in the shape of an eagle, so kites are also called "paper kites".

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Later, kites came in different shapes, and most of them were swallow kites flown in spring.

2. Eat spring vegetables. As the name suggests, spring vegetables are spring vegetables.

In the Lingnan area, there is a custom of eating spring vegetables on the vernal equinox.

"Chuncai" is a kind of wild amaranth, which the locals call "Chunbi Artemisia".

On the vernal equinox, the whole village goes to pick spring vegetables.

When searching in the fields, most of them are green and thin, about as long as a palm.

The collected spring vegetables are usually boiled in soup with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup".

3. Egg erecting "The spring equinox arrives, and the eggs look pretty." On the day of the spring equinox every year, tens of millions of people around the world do the "egg erecting" experiment.

How this so-called "Chinese custom" became a "world game" is still difficult to verify.

However, the gameplay is simple, easy and fun.

4. To send a Spring Ox, the Spring Ox Picture is to print the lunar solar terms for the whole year on two sheets of red or yellow paper, and then print the pattern of farmers plowing the fields, which is called the "Spring Ox Picture".

The people who send pictures are usually eloquent and good at singing. They mainly talk about spring plowing and auspicious sayings that are consistent with the farming season. Every time they visit a house, they are immediately moved by the scene, and they say it until the owner is happy and gives money.

Although these words come out casually, they have a beautiful rhyme to them.

It is commonly known as "Shuo Chun", and people who talk about spring are called "Chun Guan".

5. On the vernal equinox, farmers all eat glutinous rice balls at home. They also cook more than ten or twenty or thirty unfilled glutinous rice balls, cut them with thin bamboo forks and place them on the ridge of the field outside.

It is said to stick to the beaks of sparrows to prevent sparrows from destroying crops.