"Spring equinox arrives, eggs are pretty", the spring equinox festival erection egg game derived from Chinese cultural customs, has spread to many countries. After people have successfully erected their eggs on the table, they can make good wishes and pray for good luck for the year.
People plow in the fields in spring. People's Daily Photo by Liu Haitian
March 19 is the day before the 2022 Spring Equinox. A group of young people from Chengdu city came to Yigeng Farm in the People's Village of Hongyuan Town, Jianyang City, to celebrate the spring equinox. According to records, as early as 4,000 years ago, people had the traditional custom of spring equinox eggs in order to celebrate the arrival of spring. The ancients believed that the moderate temperature and beautiful environment during the spring equinox made people feel comfortable and peaceful, so it was easy to erect eggs.
Spring equinox vertical egg activity. People's Daily Photo by Liu Haitian
After putting up the eggs, everyone started to make pastries again. Half of the ingredients are made of white yam and half of it is made of black sesame seeds, which together look like a traditional culture of yin and yang tai chi diagram. This pattern also contains the astronomical meaning of equalizing the time of day and night on the day of the spring equinox. Then use the mold to press the pattern, and a beautiful and delicious and learned "spring equinox cake" is made. "Yam has the beauty of 'ginseng from the poor family', has the effect of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, and black sesame seeds are also good for strengthening the kidneys." In the team, Wang Hongfu, who has taught himself Traditional Chinese medicine, explained the nutritional effect of the "Spring Equinox Cake" material. He also led everyone to dig wild vegetables on the field, while digging and explaining the medicinal value of dandelions, plantains and other wild vegetables, targeting diseases. This small research activity made the original boring and boring labor of digging wild vegetables also become interesting.
The "Spring Equinox Cake" was made. People's Daily Photo by Liu Haitian
"Grandma was afraid that we would forget how to farm and often took us to farm work." Zhang Juan, a young man in bazhong, has been doing social work in Chengdu for a long time. She said that her grandmother's teachings were very meaningful. Today's young people should inherit the farming culture of the motherland and promote the development of rural revitalization on this basis.
Fan Huaqiao, the person in charge of Yigeng Farm, introduced that he registered this name to spread a concept and tell people that farming culture is not complicated and scary, but actually quite easy and interesting. Chinese has a profound tradition of farming culture, and everyone should not forget the ability to plant in spring and harvest in autumn. Even urban people can often come to the countryside to experience the joy of the countryside.
Beautiful countryside scenery. People's Daily Photo by Liu Haitian
"The essence of rural revitalization is that people must return to the countryside." One young man believes that rural revitalization is of a better quality if talents, population and resources are promoted to return to the countryside. To this end, a group of like-minded people, although they have their own jobs in the city, but they also set their sights on the countryside together and want to contribute to the revitalization of the countryside.
The I Ching has deep roots in Chinese culture. Yi means replacement and transformation, which is intrinsically related to Chinese farming culture. Spring planting, long summer, autumn harvest, and winter hiding are all agricultural actions carried out according to the changes of the day. Agricultural labor according to the twenty-four solar terms reflects the close connection between the change of time and the change of work. The name Yi Geng, which integrates Chinese culture with Chinese agriculture, implicitly shows the importance of the process of rural revitalization Chinese revitalization. After in-depth discussion, everyone more deeply understood the cultural significance of participating in rural revitalization, and also better understood the responsibility of the times they shouldered.
Group photo of participants. People's Daily Photo by Liu Haitian
Lay up eggs, rural revitalization depends on hard work; the spring equinox cake is formed, and the rural undertakings must be balanced. Everyone discussed and decided that in the future, Yigeng Farm cannot simply do agricultural products, but also inherit the farming culture and Traditional Chinese medicine culture, develop online and offline at the same time, promote rural revitalization, and drive the comprehensive development of the surrounding masses.