The vernal equinox vernal equinox customs know how much, eight customs inventory

The vernal equinox customs have?Qingming festival customs as an important part of traditional culture, there has been a unique cultural charm.Equinox solar terms has a lot of interesting customs, the customs has not only profound cultural meaning, and also the unity of nature and healthy.The vernal equinox what customs, what are the custom of spring, today small make up is a way to introduce for everybody.

1, the egg

Each year at the vernal equinox day, there will be hundreds of millions of people around the world are doing "the egg" test.This is referred to as "China custom" sort, why a "game in the world", it is difficult to textual research.But the style is simple and full of fun: select a smooth and trim, and just give birth to the fresh of the four or five dayseggs, softly on the table to it.Although there are many losers, but many winners, too.The vernal equinox is the best time of the egg game, therefore has the "vernal equinox to, egg, qiao".Landscape of our stand.

2, eat dish spring

Former SiYi do not have a festival custom, called "vernal spring vegetables"."Spring food" is a kind of wild amaranth, fellow villager is called "spring green artemisia".Meet the vernal equinox day, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables.Search in the field, see more is pale green, tree carefully, length about slap.Taken back to the spring food generally home with the fish fillet roll "soup", called "spring soup".Have a phrase: "spring soup poured dirty, washing deeply.Family, old and young, ping an health."Slowly, it was a custom.One year since the spring, people pray for peace or home, body strong force.

3, send ChunNiu

Then that is the vernal equinox, when appeared went send ChunNiu diagram.The figure is out red paper or yellow paper printed on a second annual lunar solar terms, also printed on the farmer plow pattern, called "ChunNiu figure".Send figure who is all some kind words to sing folk, main said some spring and auspicious don't interfere with farming, every one is JiJingShengQing, see what say what, said master le and give money.Though words freely, but there are beautiful.Said commonly known as the "spring", said the spring was called "spring officer".

4, the birds have a mouth

Vernal equinox according to customs all the farmers off this day, every eat soup yuan, but also be wrapped without heart more than ten or twenty or thirty cooked soup yuan, with fine bamboo fork stand in outdoor tanabe to camp, called stick the birds have a mouth, so that the birds have to damage the crops.During the vernal equinox or the children a good time to fly a kite.Especially on the day of the vernal equinox.Even the adults involved.Kite kite categories have king word, silver carp kite, kite, narrow moth tripterygium wilfordii insect kite, kite moon light, large two metres high, small also have two or three feet.Are sold on the market of kites, much smaller, suitable forThe childThe child to play, and most or paste, larger, even when put competing to see which put too high.

5, the Spring Festival

In February the vernal equinox, began to ancestor worship, mourning also troat offerings.Before the grave to grand ancestor worship ceremony is held in the ancestral temple,Kill pig, slaughtered sheep, please play the drummer, born of the ritual read eulogy, with guide line three tribute.The vernal equinox grave at the start of the first SaoJi progenitor and ancestorThe grave, all the family and the village, large, often reach hundreds, even thousands of people.After an open face and ancestor's tomb sweeping, then time SaoJi ancestral graves, each room finally each SaoJi to add to their families.Most of the hakka region spring worship ancestors grave, from the vernal equinox or some time earlier, the most ChiQingMing to finish cleaning.Everywhere there's a saying, "after the qingming festival tomb door is closed, ancestors ghost won't apply it.

6, worship

Before and after the spring equinox folk festival has opened on February 15, get a saint king's birthday: open get st., also known as "king of Chen Sheng" king of the tang dynasty Wu Jinshi Chen yuanguang, to get a continent, after death be get a patron.On 19 February avalokitesvara's birthday, birthday, believers RuSuJi more, to the goddess of mercytempleWorship.On February 15th three mountain king death: three mountain king refers to jieyang county of guangdong chaozhou state of dushan, daming mountain, wipes the mountains three mountain god, early spring as the patron saint of chaozhou hakka immigrants, so the believer is given priority to with hakka people.

7, death in the zhou dynasty, the spring equinox has anniversary ceremony."Rites" : "death in it."Kong Yingda hydrophobic: "call the vernal equinox is also.The common past dynasties.Qing Pan Rong pursuit "at the age of emperor jing JiSheng" : "equinox memorial song, autumnal equinox, offering month is the ceremony of the sergeants may not be good at si."

Ritan is located in the southeast of Beijing ChaoYangMenWai ritan road east, also called the ritan, it is the Ming and qing dynasties emperor sacrifice to daming god on the day of the vernal equinox (the sun).Asahi at the vernal equinox every moment, every year a, c, e, g, nonyl, emperor personally sacrifice, the rest of the years by officials give offerings.

8, reward cattle

Jiangnan region popular reward cattle, sacrifice custom of birds.The spring equinox has to, cattle began a year of work, expressed as a glutinous rice ball feed cattle reward;Sacrificial birds, thank they remind a farming, 2 it is to hope the birds don't pluck the corn, and pray for good harvest.