March 20
spring
divide
Solar terms
《Vernal Equinuts Day》
Don Seo Hyun
On the fourth day of the first half of spring, the spring color is in the middle.
The green fields linger in the moon, and the clouds break on sunny days.
Yan Fei was still one by one, and the flowers had fallen one after another.
Si Woman is tall and late, and the song cannot be heard.
origin
The vernal equinox is the fourth of the 24 solar terms,
It is an important season for farming.
On the day of the vernal equinox, the sun shines directly at the equator,
The hours of day and night are equal throughout the earth,
So
The ancient spring equinox and autumn equinox are also known as "day and night equinoxes",
There is a folk proverb that "the spring equinox and autumn equinox, the day and night are equally divided".
Three Marquises
A migratory bird arrives
The second waiting for Lei Nai to speak
Three waiting for the first electricity
mores
Vertical egg
On the day of the spring equinox every year, thousands of people around the world are doing "erect egg" experiments. Choose a smooth, well-proportioned fresh egg that has just been laid for four or five days and gently put it up on the table. The spring equinox has become the best time for the egg game, so there is a saying that "the spring equinox arrives, and the eggs are pretty".
Eat spring vegetables
"Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, which the townspeople call "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, the whole village goes to pick spring vegetables. There is a smooth mouth: "Spring soup is dirty, washing the liver and intestines." Family, young and old, safe and healthy. Slowly, it also became a custom.
Send spring cattle
During the spring equinox, there is a custom of sending spring cattle pictures. It is necessary to print a pattern of the farmer's ploughing field, called "Spring Cow Diagram". The people who send the pictures are all folk good words and singers, mainly saying some words of spring ploughing and auspiciousness that do not violate the agricultural time. Although the words come out of the mouth, the sentences have a beautiful rhyme. It is commonly known as "saying spring", and people who say spring are called "spring officials".
Sticky sparrow mouth
On the day of the spring equinox, the peasants are on holiday according to the custom, and each family must eat soup yuan, and they must also cook more than ten or twenty or thirty soup yuan that do not have a heart, and use a thin bamboo fork to put them on the outdoor field edge of the ground, known as sticking finches, so as not to destroy the crops.
proverb
Vernal equinion, day and night flat.
There is rain from the spring equinox to qingming, and there is no way to go when it rains in the early morning.
Spring sowing snowfall Spring sowing cold, spring equinox rain is a good year.
During the spring equinox, melons and fruits are grafted.
Ate the spring equinox meal, a long line a day.
Image source 丨 network
Hai Bao 丨Sang Boyan, Shi Ke, He Xiaochen
Editor 丨 Li Jiaxin
Made 丨 Wang poetry
Responsible editor 丨 Mu Hongyu
Review 丨 Wu Xuhang
Instructor 丨 Wu Di