Customs of early spring in Guangdong Province

The customs in beginning of spring, Guangdong Province are: biting spring, welcoming spring and playing spring.

Da Chun 1

To "spring" means to "whip the spring cattle" to "urge the ploughing". Spring cattle can be divided into paper cattle and mud cattle. The man pretending to be a headstrong god whipped the spring cow three times with a whip wrapped in HongLing, which means "whipping the spring cow", which means to drive away the laziness of the spring cow and urge people to plant the land quickly when spring returns to the earth.

Step 2 bite the spring

On the day of "beginning of spring", people in China are used to eating radishes, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring". However, different local customs have different manifestations, and eating spring rolls is popular in the south. On the day of "beginning of spring", another food that people in China eat is radish. Because radish is spicy, it means that the ancients "bite the grass roots and can do anything."

3. Spring Festival

It is also a traditional custom to welcome spring at the beginning of spring. In the old custom of beginning of spring, the day before, two artists put on ribbons and shouted "Spring is coming" along the street, which is a traditional way to "herald spring". After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.

Seasonal constellation:

In early spring, the starry sky is often the brightest in a year. At about eight or nine in the evening, I looked up at the starry sky. In the south, there are three stars that are very easy to identify. They are close together, in a straight line, like a shiny belt. That is Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse and Mintucker.

China folks call these three stars "auspiciousness, happiness and longevity", and regard them as three auspicious star officials, who are in charge of human longevity and longevity respectively, also known as "Fu Lushou Samsung". "Samsung is shining, and the Spring Festival is coming." When you see Samsung hanging high in the southern sky at night, it is time to celebrate the Spring Festival.