Since the Qin Dynasty, China has been using Spring Rising as the beginning of spring. A long time ago, people only know how to hunt, do not know how to plant, and often ate the first meal without the next meal. Later, Shen Nong's tasted a hundred herbs and divided the five grains, people then began to learn to plant crops, and the day slowly became better. Since then, the first three queens and five emperors were very concerned about agriculture, in the spring when the son of heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers, with the feudal lords and feudal lords to go to the eastern suburb to welcome the spring, praying for a good harvest. After coming back, he would reward his ministers and give the people a favor by giving them the order of virtue. This activity affected the common people and became a universal spring festival for generations to come.

Second, the customs of spring

1. Bite spring

In the spring of this day, China's folk have eaten radish, ginger, green onion, noodle cake custom, known as the bite of spring. But different local customs are different, so eat will be different, in the south when spring is popular to eat spring rolls. On the day of spring, another food that our folk bite spring is radish. Because the radish flavor spicy, take the bite of grass roots broken, then a hundred things can do the moral.

The Origin and Customs of the Spring Festival

2. Welcoming Spring

Welcoming Spring is also a traditional custom at the time of the Spring Festival. In the olden days, the day before the first day of spring, two artists wore headdresses and shouted along the street that spring had come, which is the traditional way of announcing spring. After the first day of spring, people can go out to spring in the days of spring blossoms, commonly known as out of the city to visit the spring, spring trekking, which is also the main form of spring tour.

3. Playing spring

Playing spring is said to whip the spring cattle to urge farming. Spring bulls have a paper cow and mud cow points, dressed up as the god of the man with red silk wrapped whip to whip the spring bull three times, that is, to play the spring bull, meaning to beat away the laziness of the spring bull, urging people to return to the ground in the spring when the time to hurry up the plow.