Historical scholars, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences researcher Luo Shuwei introduction, February 3 to 5 each year for the "spring", also known as "playing spring", it is the first of the twenty-four seasons, but also the beginning of the four seasons of the year! It is the first of the twenty-four solar terms and the beginning of the four seasons of the year. "Li" has the meaning of the beginning, "Li Chun" opened the prelude to spring, marking the arrival of the spring of the recovery of all things.

China's folk some of the "spring" customs are still preserved, such as rural areas are still whipped clay oxen "playing spring" move, intended to prepare for plowing at the beginning of the year, and look forward to a good wind and rain. In addition, the family will eat spring plate, eat spring cake, eat spring rolls or eat radish "bite spring", welcome the spring atmosphere can be seen everywhere.

Playing spring is one of the customs of the Spring Festival. Spring is the first of the twenty-four seasons, is the beginning of the year of the dry calendar, is the end of all things into the beginning of the end and into the beginning, on behalf of the beginning of all things, the meaning of all the more life. In the old days, people in the spring the day before the beginning of the year made of clay spring bull, spring day with red and green whip whip, so the customary activities known as "playing spring".