Lichun, as its name suggests, is the time when spring begins. The temperature and precipitation are constantly changing throughout the year, and in order to delineate the turning points of the changes in temperature and precipitation, people in ancient times created the twenty-four solar terms, each of which represents a different change in temperature and precipitation characteristics.

And the first spring is the first festival of the year, representing the arrival of spring, the temperature will gradually rise, precipitation will also have a corresponding increase, the earth everything slowly began to revive, people also have to prepare for farming matters.

Folklore of the Lichun Festival

The Lichun Festival is the beginning of spring, so whenever the Lichun Festival arrives, people have to celebrate it because it represents the beginning of the four seasons of the year, which is a very important day.

And the specific folk activities to celebrate the Lichun include welcoming the spring, playing spring ox, biting the spring, grabbing the spring, Ji Tian, sending the spring, posting the spring characters, worshipping the Tai Sui (太岁), eating the spring plate, eating the spring rolls, eating the spring pancake, eating the carrots, taking care of their health and preventing the cold and preventing diseases. The ancients believed that the spring season is the time when all diseases are prone to occur, it is important to pay attention to prevent infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and so on.

The origin of Lichun

Lichun belongs to the twenty-four solar terms, so the origin of Lichun is equal to the origin of the twenty-four solar terms. In the earliest times, the twenty-four solar terms were already formed in the ancient times, when people divided the solar terms by observing the seven stars of the Big Dipper.

But it was not until the Qin and Han Dynasties that the twenty-four solar terms had specific times and names, and this form of the twenty-four solar terms has been used until the modern era, until technology flourished, people knew more astronomical knowledge, and adopted a more accurate method of calculating the solar terms, and only then did they make adjustments to the time division of the twenty-four solar terms.