Beginning of spring is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, and it was included in the first month solar terms in the official yearbook of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The arrival time is on February 3-5 of the Gregorian calendar every year (around the first day of the first lunar month), when the sun reaches 3 15.
Beginning of spring is one of the important traditional festivals of the Han nationality. "Li" means "start". Since the Qin Dynasty, China has always regarded beginning of spring as the beginning of spring.
Second, the custom of solar terms
1. Spring ploughing: spring ploughing and autumn hunting. Emperor Zhou Li personally led the princes and doctors of the three public officials and nine public officials to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and hold a ceremony to worship the God Ju Mang (see Li Yue Ling). The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. The history of sacrifice in the later Han Dynasty: the continuation of later generations.
2, spring: folk spring cattle, with a whip, called spring.
3. Spring Club: Folk parades and dances with dragons, paste spring cows and offer sacrifices to social gods, occupying the climate, wind direction and clouds of the Spring Festival.
4, Chaohe: "Dream of Liang Lu": In the early spring, Japanese Zaichen entered North Korea to meet him. Hundreds of civil and military officials, meet the son of heaven, long live together.
Zhou Li has set up a spring official. Emperor Zhou Li personally cultivated symbolically that spring will return to the earth and the world can resume production and farming.
5, spring outing: people want to go to spring, women wear spring life.
6, bite spring: eat spring plates, spring cakes, spring rolls, spring boxes, eat lettuce, eat radish, called "bite spring."
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Solar term health:
In health care, it is mainly to protect the liver. In terms of work and rest time, people should also conform to the laws of nature and go to bed early and get up early. In terms of mental health, we should try to avoid rage and depression, be open-minded and keep a happy mood.
For healthy people, the diet should be light and don't eat too much dry and spicy food. At the same time, because the sun be the spirit rises in beginning of spring at this time, it will often be cold and hot for a period of time, so be careful of the intrusion of "cold in spring", especially for people who are weak, it is common to catch a cold and have a fever.
According to this expert, if you want to sterilize and prevent cold, you can increase the frequency of eating garlic, onion, celery and other "flavor" foods in your diet, which is of great benefit to prevent respiratory infections such as typhoid fever and colds in spring, and it is easy to hurt the yin, so you should pay special attention to nourishing yin, and you can choose more foods such as lily, yam, lotus seeds and medlar.