The beginning of spring is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, indicating the arrival of spring. Because of the different number of revolutions of the earth, the time when the beginning of spring arrives is different every year. So on which month and day is the beginning of spring in 2017? Let’s find out with the editor of ClearView now.

The date of the beginning of spring in the 2017 calendar: The beginning of spring in 2017 Gregorian calendar (solar calendar): February 3, 2017

Lunar calendar (lunar calendar): the beginning of the first month of the Dingyou year Seventh, Friday

Calculation method for the beginning of spring Calculation formula: [Y*D+C]-L

Interpretation of the formula: multiply the last 2 digits of the year by 0.2422 plus 3.87, take the integer and subtract the leap year. C value in the 21st century = 3.87, C value in the 22nd century = 4.15.

Example: The calculation steps for the date of the beginning of spring in 2058 are [58?0.2422+3.87]-[(58-1)/4]=17-14=3, then the beginning of spring is February 3.

The origin of the beginning of spring. The ancients designated the beginning of spring as the first of the 24 solar terms. On the day of the beginning of spring, when you look up at the starry sky at seven o'clock in the evening, you can see that the handle of the Big Dipper is pointing northeast, that is, at an azimuth angle of 45 degrees, a direction that the ancients called Gen (one of the Eight Diagrams).

The beginning of spring means the beginning, and the spring means the season, so the beginning of spring means that the spring festival has begun. Farmers' proverbs say "spring comes sixty-nine", "when does frost fall and when winter comes, spring comes in forty-five days". From the winter solstice to nine, five-nine and forty-five days, so the beginning of spring happens to be "sixty-nine". start. From this day to the beginning of summer, we have always called it "spring".

Customs of the Beginning of Spring 1. Chunniu Pasting

The custom activity of Chunniu Pasting begins before the Beginning of Spring. According to the traditional practice, the county government (county government) hires paper makers Skilled craftsmen gathered in the county before the beginning of spring to carefully create images of spring cows. Generally, bamboo strips are tied to form the skeleton of a cow, spring wood is used as the legs, then paper is pasted on it, and paint is applied to create an image of a cow. As the saying goes, if there is more red and yellow paper, the harvest will be good that year; if it is covered with black paper, the harvest will be poor that year. Therefore, the county magistrate arranged to use more red and yellow paper to win the support of the people. After the spring ox is pasted, a consecration and eye-dotting ceremony will be held, an incense table will be set up, and the incense table will be set up to pay homage.

2. Spring Cow Hunting

There are spring cows made of mulberry wood as the skeleton, which are specially used for the customary activity of "Spring Cow Hunting". On the day after the winter solstice, the earth is taken from the earth and made into a clay body, which is carved into a shape similar to the size of an ox. On it are four o'clock and eight sections, 12 o'clock patterns on 360 days. On the day before the beginning of spring, officials and people first offered sacrifices at the agreed farm altar. Afterwards, the county deacon (county magistrate) personally holds the plow and whips the "spring ox" to indicate the beginning of spring plowing. Then the masses plowed the land. While plowing, they beat "spring cows", shouting: "One dozen" means good weather and good weather; two dozen means "Guotai and people's peace"; three dozen means "good harvest" and other auspicious words.

3. Welcome the Spring

In order to welcome the Spring, first choose a land with good Feng Shui in the suburbs of the county and set up a "spring shed" to prepare for the Spring. Spring sheds are usually erected on traffic thoroughfares where people can gather easily. Put colorful flags around.

The Spring Festival activities are held on the day of the Beginning of Spring. The specific time is based on the almanac. Sometimes it is at the hour of the day, sometimes at midnight. The Spring Festival activities usually involve a huge procession of ceremonial guards, carrying the Spring Festival Official Parade to show their power, crowding in front and behind, and it is extremely majestic. There are also Baozi, Ma Bian and others wearing long robes, mandarin jackets, or various fancy costumes, sitting on a single wooden pole carried by two people, performing tricks while doing it, making fun of the fight and making people laugh.

The teams welcoming the Spring Festival gather in front of the spring shed from all directions, and then go to the county government (county government) to announce the good news and welcome the Spring Festival.

4. Spring Outing and Spring Annunciation

The Spring Outing begins after the Spring Festival announcement. The gongs and drums teams and honor guards from each village and community walk in front, and a huge spring ox is carried by four or eight people. The statue walked behind. Walking and dancing, gongs and drums roared, and firecrackers blasted. The parade was huge and spectacular. Visit the surrounding villages and streets.

After the spring outing team enters the spring field (inspection venue), they swim twice around the field, and then each line up and stand on the arranged venue. At this time, the county magistrate is respectfully invited to sit in the spring shed and hold a spring heralding ceremony. According to traditional customs, there is a Spring Announcement Platform, with newspapermen dressed in strange clothes and holding red and yellow flags. The first one announces good weather, and the crowd echoes in unison; the second announces a good harvest, and the masses also respond in unison. "Thirdly, to report the country's peace and prosperity to the people", the masses once again echoed in unison. Everyone who comes to report will be rewarded.

5. Chunshe

Chunshe is the day for worshiping the earth god in spring in ancient times. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was held on Jia day, and later it was usually held on the fifth Wu day after the beginning of spring. "Li Mingtang Wei": "This is the reason why Xia_, Qiuchang, Dongcheng, Chunshe, Qiu Sheng, and then Dachang are sacrifices to the emperor." ?Before the Han Dynasty, there was only the Spring Society. After the Han Dynasty, there were the Spring Society and the Autumn Society, which were held around the spring and autumnal equinoxes. Social Day is mainly about worshiping gods and also means gathering with neighbors. Liang Zongmao of the Southern Dynasty wrote in his "Records of the Years of Jingchu": On the day of the commune, the neighbors formed a comprehensive commune, sacrificed mash, and built a house under the tree. They first offered sacrifices to the gods, and then feasted on them. ?The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jia's poem "Social Day": ?The shadows of mulberry trees are slanting in the spring when the community disperses, and every family helps people to return intoxicated. ?It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to worshiping social gods. It later became a custom and was passed down to future generations. It became a sacrificial activity, which means that the earth multiplies all things. Prayers and sacrifices are made to pray for the prosperity of livestock and abundant grains.

6. Paste Yichun calligraphy and painting

When spring comes, people post Yichun calligraphy and painting on the door wall. This custom existed in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. According to records: On the first day of spring, people in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty often posted calligraphy and paintings on their doors to welcome the spring and wish good luck. The characters were called "Yichun characters" and the paintings were called "Yichun paintings". Such as "Welcome Spring", "Pleasant Spring", "Bright Spring", "Warm Spring Flowers", etc. Some people also post a blessing message on the lintel to express their wish to welcome the Spring Festival. People who can draw often paint a "Picture of Wintersweet" on the lintel.

7. Dai Chunji

Dai Chunji is an ancient custom of the people in Tongchuan, Shaanxi. Every year on the first day of spring, the mother makes a rooster about 3 centimeters long out of cloth and sews it on the top of the child's hat to express her wishes for Chunji (rooster). It is believed that this can prevent young children from getting measles. The former is called rash, and the latter is called rash.

8. Wearing swallows

Wearing swallows is an ancient custom of the people in Chang'an and Guanzhong. Every year at the beginning of spring, people like to wear "swallows" cut from colored silk on their chests. This custom started in the Tang Dynasty and is still popular in rural areas. Because swallows are messengers of spring and a symbol of happiness and good luck. Therefore, many wealthy families build swallow's nests in the middle of their living rooms or under the eaves. As long as you can put up a small page under the purlins of the courtyard or on the wall of the eaves, and write the four words "Chun Yan Lai Chao" on it, Swallows can build their own nests. Swallows are migratory birds, flying to the north in spring and south in autumn. ?I won’t eat your millet, I won’t eat your millet, I will only hold a litter of sons in your house. ?So people in Xiangyang like to invite swallows to breed in their courtyard houses. Every year on the day of the beginning of spring, people like to wear "swallows", especially children. Their parents have already prepared them for them. They wear them on their chests, dance with their hands and feet, and are happy and excited. .

9. Hanging spring ears

Diaochang is a traditional custom that spreads in Chengcheng, Shaanxi. Every year on the first day of spring, women braid various colored cloths into ears of cloth, or wrap colored threads into various shapes of "wheat ears". Then hang it on a child or young person, or on an animal such as a donkey, horse, or cow, to wish for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

Affixed to the wall alone, it is used to suppress and drive away poisonous scorpions. For example, it is written: In the middle of the third month of Grain Rain, the Heavenly Master came to the gate. Holding the Seven-Star Sword in his hand, he killed the scorpion spirit. ?The people of Baishui County also have similar activities during the Guyu Festival. For example, they write on the yellow form: ?Gu Yu day, Guyu morning, please invite General Guyu. After three cups of tea and three rounds of wine, the scorpion immediately turned into dust. ?Used to drive away poisonous scorpions. People in Xixiang, Shaanxi Province, whip the walls with willow branches every year at dawn on Grain Rain Day to drive away poisonous scorpions.

Traditional food at the beginning of spring. Folks eat some fresh spring vegetables on the day of the beginning of spring, not only to prevent diseases, but also to welcome the new year. The "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" of the Tang Dynasty records: "At the beginning of spring, people eat reeds, spring pancakes, and lettuce, called 'vegetable plates.'" It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty had already begun to try spring dishes and eat spring pancakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot noodle pancake - use two small pieces of water, grease the middle with oil, roll it into a pancake, and peel it into two pieces after it is cooked. Spring pancakes are used to wrap vegetables, including cooked and stir-fried vegetables. In the past, when eating spring cakes, it was important to go to a box shop to order "Su Pan" (also known as box dishes). A box shop is a sauce butcher shop, and the store sends people to deliver food to your home. In the box, smoked tripe, pine nut tripe, roasted pork (a hanging oven roasted pork), clear sauce pork, smoked elbow, sauced elbow, sauced strips, smoked chicken, sauced duck, etc. need to be cut when eating. Cut into thin strips, and serve with several home-cooked stir-fry dishes (usually stir-fried leek sprouts with shredded pork, stir-fried spinach with shredded pork, mung bean sprouts cooked in vinegar, fried vermicelli, spread eggs, etc. If there is something new on the market? Pheasant neck leek? Stir-fried lean meat Shredded, and topped with eggs, it is even more delicious and delicious), rolled into spring cakes and eaten together.

Eating spring dishes

Since the Tang Dynasty, the custom of eating spring dishes at the beginning of spring has been widely spread among the people. For example, the book "Sui Shi Guang Ji" written by Chen Yuanliang in the late Southern Song Dynasty quoted the Tang Dynasty's "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" as recording: On the first day of spring, everyone makes spring cakes and lettuce, called "spring plate". The word "spring plate" is also frequently seen in poetry works of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the poet Cen Shen once wrote in the poem "Send Yang Qian to Runan County to go to the province of Runan to get married at the end of the year": "Looking at Runan in the distance, early in the morning Go to Chunpan. ?In the Song Dynasty, this custom became more common. Su Shi, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, mentioned this custom many times in his poems and works, such as "Floating milk flowers floating on the afternoon lamp, Polygonum antler and artemisia bamboo shoots on the spring plate", "Sorrow for news" Blow the reed pipe, happy to see the polygonum buds in the spring plate? The great poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty also has two words in his "[Thanks to the Emperor's Favor] Bo Li's Birthday on the Beginning of Spring" and "[Magnolia] Composition on the Beginning of Spring" respectively? Just like the spring plate of thin lettuce?, "Spring plate of spring wine, good luck every year?" Such poems. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi recorded in "The Records of the Years in the Imperial Capital, the First Month, and the Spring Dishes": "Xin Dishes are offered on New Year's Day." Even though the family was a commoner's house, they would still cut chickens and dolphins, cook noodles, and mix them with lettuce, green leeks, lamb's horns, green onions, and vegetable skins, as well as raw water and carrots, which was called "biting spring". ?

According to research, Chunpan actually evolved from the Wuxin Pan during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Zong Nao of the Southern Dynasty's "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" quoted from the "Fengtu Ji" of Zhou Chu in the Western Jin Dynasty and said: "On the first day of the year, the five-scent plate was made, and on the first day of the Zhengyuan day, the five-smudged plate was made and the shape was refined." ?There is also a sentence like "talking about opening cypress leaf wine and trying the five-sin plate" in the "Poems at the End of the Year" written by Yu Xin, a poet of the Southern Dynasty.

The so-called five pungent vegetables are five kinds of pungent vegetables. According to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica": On New Year's Day and the beginning of spring, onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum, mustard and other pungent and tender vegetables are eaten together to take the meaning of welcoming the new year, which is called "five pungent vegetables". Xin plate?, as Du Fu's poem said: "Spring plate of thin lettuce" is what it means. ?Actually, in ancient times, people ate Wu Xin Pan not only for the purpose of welcoming the new year as Li Shizhen said, but also for dispersing the energy of the five internal organs, keeping fit and preventing epidemics. According to the modern scientific point of view, during the Spring Festival, when the cold is over and spring comes, it is the time when colds are easy to catch. Using five pungents to dredge the internal organs and disperse sweat will undoubtedly play a certain role in preventing epidemic influenza. In the Tang and Song dynasties, people improved the five-spicy dish and added some seasonal vegetables, changing it from a monotonous spicy dish to a green and red dish with good color, fragrance and flavor, and named it "Spring dish".

The custom of eating spring dishes has been passed down to this day, but the content of spring dishes has undergone greater changes, becoming mainly based on New Year seasonal vegetables such as leeks, bean sprouts, and parsley, plus shredded pork. , shredded tofu, etc. are stir-fried into a plate. You can also add sea cucumber, shiitake mushrooms, shredded chicken and other raw materials. It varies from person to person and can be mixed at will.

Eating Spring Rolls

Spring rolls are also a festive delicacy that people often eat on the Beginning of Spring. This kind of food is stuffed with thin dough and fried in oil. The specific production method is: mix flour into a paste, put some on the bottom of a pan, cook over a slow fire, rotate the pan from time to time to make a spring roll skin as thin as cicada wings, then stuff it with fillings, and roll it into a roll about two inches long. It is in the shape of a tube, with both ends stuck together with batter, and fried in oil until it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Spring roll skins are generally made from wheat flour, but egg skins and tofu skins are also used. As for the fillings, they are divided into northern and southern schools. In the north, leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, etc. are mostly used, while in the south of the Yangtze River, cabbage, shredded pork, shrimp shreds, dried shrimps, celery, bean paste, fruits, etc. are mostly used.

The food name spring rolls was first seen in the book "Mengliang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. The book mentioned two types of spring rolls: "thin-skinned spring rolls" and "zimu spring rolls". By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, spring rolls had become a popular flavor food. Today, spring rolls with golden color, crispy skin, fresh meat filling and attractive aroma have become a unique and popular dish at banquets in many large hotels. Nowadays, people no longer only eat spring rolls on the first day of spring, but can also eat them often. However, spring rolls still have a different taste when eaten on the first day of spring.

As a traditional food culture, biting spring and tasting spring were originally an integral part of the customs of the Beginning of Spring Festival. However, this festival custom has faded a lot now, and even many young people no longer know this custom. Nowadays, people eat more noodles and dumplings instead of spring dishes, spring pancakes, and spring rolls to welcome the arrival of spring. Therefore, there is a widely circulated saying among the people: "Spring dumplings beat spring noodles."

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