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When will spring start in 2019? What's the custom of spring

What day of the lunar calendar is spring in 2019? If you don't know the time of the lunar calendar, which day of spring in 2019? What's the custom of spring? Let's learn about it with Xiaobian.

What day is the lunar calendar in 2019

Monday, February 4, 2019 (the year of 1898 (the year of the dog) December 30

Spring is the first solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar. The beginning of spring is divided from astronomy, that is, when the sun reaches the Yellow longitude 315-deg.

Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. "Li" means "start". Since the Qin Dynasty, the beginning of the season of mengchun has been in China. The so-called "one year's plan lies in spring". Spring is warm, with birds singing and flowers fragrant; spring is growth, cultivation and sowing.

It has a history of more than 3000 years since the beginning of spring, and China attaches great importance to it from the official to the folk. At the beginning of spring, the son of heaven went to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring with his three gongs and nine Qings, and the princes and officials, praying for a good harvest. When you come back, you should reward all the officials and give orders to help the people. This kind of activity affects the common people and makes it the spring welcoming activity of the whole people for generations to come

There is also an interesting legend about the beginning of spring. It is said that in ancient times, when spring is coming, the county magistrate will take the local gentry and celebrities to dig a pit in the land, and then put the feather and other light things into the pit. At a certain time, the feather will float up from the pit. This time is spring time, and start to set off firecrackers to celebrate. I wish the next year good weather and good harvest.

Spring custom

(1) spring cattle

Mr. Wang Zengqi described the situation of sending spring cattle by Gaoyou, his hometown: "on the spring day, there are poor people who make mud cows to each house, about five or six inches of the cattle, painted with color, and some little mud man, who is the God of mang & middot; & middot; & middot; & middot; & middot; when they are sent, they use suona to play short songs, and they can get a little reward for God's case & middot;"; &Middot; & middot; & middot; & middot; & middot; 'by extension, the ceremony of delivering spring cattle in Jiangnan is almost the same. I haven't seen it in my hometown.

(2) Picture of spring cattle

In some places, a picture of a spring ox on yellow paper is pasted on the wall of the hall. Yellow stands for land and spring cattle for farming. In the past, in the countryside, at the beginning of spring, farmers like to buy an old yellow calendar as a reference for working and living places. The old yellow calendar usually has a picture of the ox in spring printed on it.

(3) biting spring

Some places in the North want to eat radish on spring day, which is called "biting spring". Eat lettuce and spring dishes. "Broad sense of the moon" volume V: 'the Tang people set up spring day, eating spring cakes and lettuce, No. spring plate. Du Fu's Li Chun, a dish of lettuce in spring, suddenly remembers the time when the plum blossoms in Beijing and Beijing. 'the lettuce here is the leek we often eat. In the south, they eat spring rolls. Spring can bite and eat, interesting and poetic.

(4) Dai Chunsheng

"Sheng", a head ornament of ancient people, can be made of various materials, such as Rensheng, Huasheng, Fansheng, etc., of which paper is the most convenient. Chunsheng has its own local characteristics.

In Tang and Song Dynasties, spring flags were popular, which was called "spring wins". Spring flags are long strips, like the wings of a Phoenix. Women cut black gold paper or cloth into patterns of swallows, chickens, willows, flowers, butterflies and other flowers, birds, insects and flowers. Men and women of all sizes wear one branch in the head, in order to avoid evil and seek good luck. Song xinqiji's "spring in the palace of Han & middot; the beginning of spring" said: 'spring has returned. Look at the beauty's head, curling spring flags. 'adults and children can also wear spring flags on their arms, left for men and right for women, as a sign of spring.