There is a saying in the folk proverb that "a year's plan lies in spring".

The ancient custom in beginning of spring is not only an ancient solar term, but also an important festival.

Beginning of spring is one of the 24 solar terms, also known as Spring Festival and New Year's Day.

"Li" means "beginning", and China takes beginning of spring as the beginning of spring.

After beginning of spring, it means the end of winter and the beginning of spring. "

Beginning of spring is also a traditional folk festival, which is called "Spring Festival". China has been an agricultural country since ancient times, and the key is spring.

"On February 4th or 5th every year, when the sun reaches the longitude of 3 15 degrees, it is beginning of spring.

Beginning of spring, as a festival, existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

Shuo Wen Jie Zi records: "Duke Zhou began to make beginning of spring native cattle, and unearthed them to show the time of farming."

At that time, there were eight festivals in a year, namely, beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn, beginning of winter, Spring Equinox, Autumn Equinox, Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. The Moon Order and Huainanzi written by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty? Astronomical training records only 24 solar terms.

Before the Han Dynasty, the calendar had been changed many times. At that time, beginning of spring among the 24 solar terms was designated as the Spring Festival, which meant that spring began.

This term lasted for more than two thousand years, and it was not until 19 13 that the national government officially issued a document.

First, the origin of solar terms in beginning of spring

China has been an agricultural country since ancient times, and the key is spring.

There is a saying in the folk proverb that "a year's plan lies in spring". The ancient custom in beginning of spring is not only an ancient solar term, but also an important festival.

At the beginning of spring, the son of heaven will personally lead the prince and the doctor to welcome the spring in the eastern suburbs and issue a kind order.

Shuo Wen Jie Zi records: "Duke Zhou began to make beginning of spring native cattle, and unearthed them to show the time of farming."

Feudal rulers of later generations held a whipping ceremony on this day to encourage farming and develop production.

Since the Qin Dynasty, beginning of spring has been the beginning of spring in China.

Feudal rulers of later generations held a whipping ceremony on this day to encourage farming and develop production.

For example, beginning of spring coincides with the first day of the first month. As the saying goes, "a year's plan lies in spring", once in a hundred years. People think that this year's harvest must be very good. There is a folk proverb, "It's hard to meet spring in a hundred years."

Second, [the custom of spring-a married girl can't go back to her family]

It has been handed down from ancient times that girls who get married in beginning of spring can't go back to their parents' home.

According to legend, the Spring Festival is a busy day for farmers, and a year's work will start today.

During the solar term in early spring, farmers made a big cow out of paper and gave it to the government. County officials flogged it three times, which meant that every family's cow worked. After the ceremony, every family took the cow to the field.

Girls who get married on this day can't go back to their parents' home.

First of all, when a girl comes home, her parents have no leisure to wait on her. She came back to make trouble for her parents, and it would be troublesome to delay farm work.

Second, parents are afraid that girls will go home to borrow cattle, delay farming, and the government will find trouble if they don't pay taxes.

There is an old saying-I went to my mother's house in spring and stepped on my poor brother-in-law.

Now it is all mechanized production, and there is no need for cattle to come forward. It would be ridiculous to go back to spring without leaving the custom of one's mother's family.

Third, [beginning of spring Customs]

(1) Youchun (tanchun, cruise):

Refers to people spontaneously forming a parade to welcome the arrival of spring.

First, the team announced that the man dressed as a rooster was at the front.

Later, a group of people carried the image of a giant (spring cow), and later some people dressed as cowboys and cows, and big-headed dolls gave spring peaches and swallows.

(2) Give each other the worship of spring:

During the solar term in beginning of spring, people will greet each other, which is called spring worship. Mainly present the following small items: spring cow, spring cow map, spring baby.

(3) Paste Spring Cattle: Paste Spring Cattle with rice or paper at home and put it at home.

(4) Planting Winter jasmine: Winter jasmine is named after its earliest flowering among hundreds of flowers, and then it will usher in the spring when all flowers bloom.

Iv. [beginning of spring Customs and Activities]

(1) Chuntai Opera:

Various recreational activities are held in various places to welcome spring, which bodes well. People set up a stage in an empty place, raise funds to invite troupes to perform, and pray for good luck in agriculture. This is the so-called spring stage play.

After selling beginning of spring in the spring, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, which often makes people fall asleep easily and feel lazy easily.

Beginning of spring's children had to get up early that day, shouting "Selling Spring Sleepiness!" Cheer up. In the Song Dynasty, Lu You wrote the poem "Old Potato": "Don't sell it from now on, sleep until the sun rises three feet."

(2) Walking:

Riding a horse in beginning of spring custom is riding a horse, which prevailed in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty.

At that time, someone said, "You don't need to read when you are born. Fighting cocks is better than reading."

Northerners like riding horses since ancient times because of their geographical terrain.

(3) Whip spring:

Now, spring whipping activities are no longer held in cities, but some rural areas still have the custom of beating spring cattle.

Before the beginning of spring, a cow was made of clay, which was called a spring cow. Women take their children around the spring cow three times. The old saying that they can't get sick has now become entertainment. At the beginning of spring, an old man was selected from the village to symbolically whip the cattle in spring three times, which means the beginning of a year's agriculture.

Then the villagers smashed the mud cows, returned the soil to the fields and scattered it in their respective farmland.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) [beginning of spring Proverbs]

Spring competes for the sun, summer competes for time, and the major events of the year cannot be delayed.

The ship waits for no one, and time waits for no one.

One day wrong, one year wrong.

There are thousands of measures to increase production, and it is most important not to miss the farming season.

When it rains in early spring, get up early and go to bed late.

If the crops are good, it will be early all the year round.

Spring breeze versus autumn rain.

Looking forward to the summer rain under the spring breeze.

It is cold in spring, muggy and rainy in summer, cold in autumn and dry and windy in winter.

It is cold in spring and rainy in summer.

It's cold in spring and rainy in summer.

August 15th, Yun Zheyue, the 15th day of the first month.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, it snows and lights up, and it rains in succession during the Qingming Festival.

No flowers, but see three eighties in the first month.

The snow in early spring melted to a depth of ten feet, and there was no place for wheat.

Beginning of spring overheated and turned to Leng Xue.

No one feels warm in two springs and one winter.

Short neck in spring, early recovery, often cold in spring.

I have a long neck in spring. When I return to the Spring Festival Evening, I seldom catch a cold in spring.

Frozen people do not freeze water in spring.

One day in early spring, hundreds of herbs germinated.

A year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in morning.

At the end of the year, beginning of spring plans to farm early.

One person has no intention in mind, and three people sing a play in their bellies.

A year's plan lies in spring, and a lifetime's plan lies in diligence.

People are diligent but not lazy, and people are lazy to start soda.

People are diligent and not lazy, and the granary is full after autumn.

Reading never leaves the desk, farming never leaves the field.

Children's faces change three times a day in spring.

The season waits for no one, and spring blossoms.

Beginning of spring that day, it was raining, and it was wet until Qingming.

Thunder represents the Spring Festival, and it never stops raining.

Spring comes early and Qiu Lai is full.

Fat but spring rain, bitter but autumn frost.

If the spring breeze does not blow, the grass buds will not sprout.

It thundered in spring, leaving ten pigsty and nine empty places.

Spring takes the lead all the year round.

Beginning of spring longs for spring.

In the spring rain, the bull's head, seven seven forty-nine days of sorrow.