#Folk Customs and Customs of Lichun # Every festival has its own traditional customs, and lichun is certainly no exception. Li Chun is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, which means that the four seasons of the year will begin.
Spring is the time when all things are revived, and at this time it is necessary to observe its traditional customs.
1. Bite the spring
On the day of "Lichun", Chinese folk are accustomed to eating radish, ginger, green onions, and flour cakes, called "biting spring".
However, different customs in different places have different manifestations, and in the south, it is popular to eat spring rolls.
On the day of "Lichun", another food for mainland folk to bite the spring is radish.
Because the radish tastes spicy, take the meaning of the ancients "bite the grass root, then Pepsi can be done".
2. Welcome spring
"Welcoming spring" is also a traditional custom.
The day before the old custom of spring, two artists shout along the street with crowns and belts: "Spring is coming", which is the traditional "primrose".
After the spring, people like to go out to travel in the spring on the days of warm flowers, commonly known as going out of the city to explore spring and step on spring, which is also the main form of spring travel.
3. Play spring
"Fighting spring" is to "whip spring cattle" to "urge farming.".
Spring cattle are divided into paper cattle and mud cows, and people dressed as mangsemies use red silk-wound whips to violently smoke spring cattle three times, that is, "beating spring cattle", which means to beat away the laziness of spring cattle and urge people to quickly cultivate when spring returns to the earth.
4. Dai Chun Chicken
Dai Chun chicken is an ancient custom of the people around Tongchuan in Shaanxi Province.
Every year on the spring day, the mother makes a rooster about 3 cm long with cloth and sews it on the top of the child's hat to express her wishes for the "Chunji (chicken)" spring day, and the women wear beans with thread to hang on the horns of the cow, or use the beans to withdraw from the cow's body, thinking that doing so can save the child from measles.
The former is called "childhood rash" and the latter is called "loose rash".
5. Pei Swallow
Pei Yanzi is an ancient custom of the people around Chang'an and Guanzhong.
Every year on Spring Day, people like to wear "swallows" cut from colored silk on their chests, a custom that originated in the Tang Dynasty and is still popular in the countryside.
Because the swallow is the messenger of primrose and a symbol of happiness and auspiciousness.
Therefore, many rich families build swallow nests in the middle of their halls or under the eaves.
6. Hanging spring spikes
Hanging spring spikes is a traditional custom that spreads around Chengcheng in Shaanxi Province.
Every year on spring day, women weave various colors of cloth into cloth ears, or use colored threads to form various forms of "ears of wheat".
It is then hung on the bodies of children or young people, or on the bodies of livestock such as donkeys, horses, and cattle, so as to bless the coming year with smooth winds and rains and abundant grain.
How to read the three days of the vernal equinox?
In fact, there are two interpretations, one refers to the meteorological, the proverb has a saying: "one weather bird to the end; two wait for thunder is to sound; three wait for the first electricity." ”
From this, it can be clearly observed that the weather changes during this period.
The other is saying the corresponding flower letter: "One waits for begonias, two waits for pear blossoms, and three waits for mulan." ”
What flower letters do they represent?
In a year, there are twenty-four flower trade winds, referred to as flower trade winds, from small cold to eight seasons of valley rain, a total of one hundred and twenty days, every five days are divided into one season, a total of twenty-four seasons, each weather should be a kind of flower.
There is a folk saying that "the wind has a letter, and the flowers are not wrong." ”
It means that every year the flowers bloom at this time, people will choose a flower with the most accurate flowering period as the representative, called the flower trade wind in this festival, which means the wind that brings the sound of flowering, and the flower letter at the spring equinox is begonia, pear blossom and magnolia.
What are the specific characteristics?
At the time of the spring equinox, you can admire many plants, so here is a brief introduction to the three flower letters mentioned above.
Among them, the posture of the begonia flower is very dashing, and when it blooms, it is a famous flower that is appreciated by the common customs since ancient times, and is known as "national beauty".
Pear trees are deciduous trees with round leaves like large-leaved poplars, thick skin on the stem, branches like umbrellas, usually blooming in the spring, the flowers are white, like snowflakes, with a strong fragrance.
The magnolia tree is up to 5 meters high, proud of the branches when it opens, because it belongs to the plant that first flowers and then grows leaves, so it has attracted people's attention, and the flowers are full of trees when they bloom, there is no variegated color, and they will slowly sprout and appear green leaves after withering.
Bai Juyi once wrote a poem describing: "The purple room is demolished by the sun and rouge, and the plain wind blows greasy powder." Strangely, Mulan once came as a girl. ”
