Custom activities of vernal equinox and solar terms
Stand an egg
"When the vernal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful." Every year on the vernal equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world are doing "vertical egg" experiments. How this toy, which is called "customized by China", became a "world game" is still difficult to verify. However, its gameplay is really simple and interesting.
the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year
The vernal equinox is also the beginning of the Spring Festival. Spring Festival, that is, the beginning of sweeping graves to worship ancestors, is also called Spring Festival. Before sweeping the grave, a grand ancestor worship ceremony should be held in the ancestral hall, pigs and sheep should be slaughtered, drummers should be invited to play, and the ritual students should read the eulogy and quote three praises. At the beginning of the spring equinox grave sweeping, the first thing is to sweep the graves of ancestors and distant ancestors. The whole family and the whole village have to be dispatched on a large scale, and the team often reaches hundreds or even thousands. After the ancestral graves of Kaiji and Yuanzu were swept, they were divided into rooms to sweep the graves of ancestors in each room, and finally each family swept the graves privately.
Eat spring vegetables
Confucius said, "From time to time, I don't eat." Food has its own season. As the name implies, spring vegetables are spring vegetables.
In Lingnan area, there is a custom of eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox. "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup". There is a jingle that says, "Spring soup is dirty, and it washes the liver and intestines. The whole family is safe and healthy. "
Send spring cattle
It's the vernal equinox, send a picture of spring cattle. Spring cattle map refers to printing the solar terms of all seasons on red paper or yellow paper, and then printing the patterns of farmers ploughing the fields. People who send pictures are generally good at singing. They mainly say some common sayings that spring ploughing and good luck do not go against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they improvise, make the host happy and give money. Although these words are spoken casually, they are melodious. Commonly known as "spring", spring people are called "spring officials".
Sticking sparrow's mouth
On the vernal equinox, farmers will eat jiaozi at home, cook a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi without heart, and put them in the outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks, which are called sticky birds' mouths to prevent birds from harming crops.
Go for an outing and fly kites
After the vernal equinox, people began to go for an outing one after another. Flying kites is an important outdoor activity. In ancient times, there was also the custom of drinking sanhua at the vernal equinox. On this day, people of all ages, men, women and children will spend flowers.
Kite, called "kite" in ancient times and "kite" in the north, has a history of more than 2000 years. Both "kite" and "kite" are eagles. In ancient times, kites were mostly made of silk or paper in the shape of eagles, so kites were also called "paper kites" and "paper kites". Later, kites took on different shapes, and most of them were released in spring.
Drink spring wine
China, Zhejiang and Shanxi's Vernal Equinox Wine-making Custom. It is recorded in an ancient book: "The wine brewed by the vernal equinox is stored in an urn, and the dross melts after three days. Its color is red, and its taste will not be bad for a long time. This is the so-called vernal equinox wine. "
worship
The folk festivals around the vernal equinox are February 15, Zhang Kai's birthday: Wang Sheng, also known as "Chen", was a warrior of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, who made great contributions to Zhangzhou and became the patron saint of Zhangzhou after his death. February 19 is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every birthday, many believers will go to Guanyin Temple to worship. On February 25th, Sanshan King Sacrifice Day: Sanshan King refers to Dushan, Mingshan, Jinshan and other mountain gods in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. In the early years, Chaozhou Hakka immigrants were the patron saint, so the believers were mainly Hakkas.
The health secret of vernal equinox
First, the spirit of aftercare
Spring is sunny and sunny, and the spirit should be relaxed, open-minded, optimistic, restrain depression and anger, and nourish nature. Going for a walk on holidays, traveling around mountains and waters, and cultivating temperament will make the blood flow smooth and energetic.
Second, keep out the cold.
Go to bed late and get up early in spring, do more outdoor activities, stretch your body and make your day more energetic. In spring, special attention should be paid to keeping out the cold, nourishing yang and astringing yin. According to the characteristics of cold and warm weather in early spring, clothes cannot be reduced, and winter clothes are taken off too early, which is easy to catch cold and hurt the lungs, causing respiratory diseases. According to the principle of "covering spring and freezing autumn", clothes must increase or decrease with the change of temperature to adapt to the changeable climate in spring.
Third, adjust diet.
In spring, the metabolism is vigorous, and the diet should be warm and nutritious. The principle of strengthening the spleen and strengthening yang is to avoid being too sour, light and delicious, greasy and cold, especially not to add more spicy and hot products, such as ginseng, velvet antler, aconite, spirits, etc., so as not to help the heat get angry. In spring, you should eat more foods rich in minerals and vitamins (especially B vitamins) in protein. Especially all kinds of yellow-green vegetables, such as lean meat, bean products, eggs, carrots, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, sweet pepper, celery, spinach, leeks and so on. In addition, you should also be careful not to overeat cold drinks and other foods too early to avoid hurting your stomach and yang.
Fourth, exercise.
A year's plan lies in spring, which is the best season for physical investment. The air is fresh in spring, and this environment is most conducive to expelling the old and absorbing the new and nourishing the viscera. More exercise in spring will enhance the epidemic situation and disease resistance of rabbits, reduce the occurrence of influenza and other diseases in a year, and make people think quickly and not be tired easily. People can choose outdoor activities according to their age and physical condition, such as Tai Ji Chuan, jogging, flying kites and spring outing.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) prevents drowsiness in spring.
It's sunny in spring, but many people feel sleepy. Tired and dizzy, I don't wake up in the morning. This phenomenon is what everyone calls "spring sleep". Sleepiness in spring does not need more sleep, but is due to seasonal differences in internal circulation. In spring, the climate gets warmer, the blood vessels in the skin relax, the function of the circulatory system is enhanced, the blood supply to the skin tip increases, sweat secretion increases, and the load on various organs increases, so the blood supply to the brain is relatively reduced, and the oxygen in the brain will feel insufficient, so you will feel sleepy and weak.
So how to reduce and prevent spring sleepiness? First, we must ensure sleep, go to bed early and get up early, and overcome negative and lazy thoughts and emotions; Second, we should actively participate in exercise and outdoor activities to improve blood circulation; Third, we should increase nutrition appropriately. Studies have proved that the lack of B vitamins and overeating are important reasons for sleepiness in spring, so it is advisable to eat more foods rich in B vitamins instead of being full. Fourth, keep indoor air circulation and smoke less. If it is not too cold, reducing some clothes or washing your face with cold water will eliminate drowsiness as soon as possible.
Weather characteristics of vernal equinox and solar terms
(1) During the vernal equinox, cold air continuously invades the south of China, and there will be low temperature weather in spring. At this time, continuous rainy days will have a great impact on crops. If the average temperature is lower than 10 ~ 12℃ for more than 5-7 days, it may cause serious rice seedling rot. Because rice and cotton are both thermophilic crops, when the temperature is above 10 ~ 12 and the minimum temperature in sunny days is above 5℃, it is beneficial to all seedlings. Conversely, if there is low temperature and rainy weather, you can imagine. First frost is the product of cold wave and strong cold air in spring. In the case of warmer climate, cold waves are relatively rare, but we should not be careless.
(2) In late spring and early spring, when the temperature rises rapidly, it will remain low for a period of time. This weather phenomenon is called late spring cold. In the south, the main influence of late spring cold is the rotten seedlings of early rice. In the north, it will affect the growth of peanuts, vegetables and cotton, and seriously cause the phenomenon of wheat seedling death. A very serious late spring cold occurred in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which happened at the vernal equinox from late March to early April of 1976. The loss of grain seeds in Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces alone reached 700-800 million Jin.
(3) The spring drought in the north, especially in the northwest and north China, is said to be "the spring drought in nine years" and "the spring rain is as expensive as oil". When there is little rain and snow in winter, winter wheat is in the wintering period and is not sensitive to water shortage. After March, the soil thawed and the wheat turned green; In spring, crops are sown from south to north. If the precipitation continues to be less at this time, the drought will be clearly reflected, and the situation of seedlings can be imagined.
(4) In the vernal equinox season of sandstorm, most of northwest China, northern North China and northeast China are still in the transitional stage of winter and spring. It's windy on a sunny day, and it's warm and cold at first. According to the statistics of dusty weather in recent years, April is the most frequent, followed by March, and the vernal equinox is 15 days, that is, from the end of March to the beginning of April. In these areas, dust blown by strong winds and floating dust from high altitude, especially the air pollution caused by dust storms, have always been the focus of attention and become a hot topic for some time.
(5) There are two rainfall concentration periods in the first flood season in South China, one is from April to June, and the other is from July to September when typhoon rainfall forms. The first flood season begins in early April and reaches its peak in mid-May, with an average of 20 rainstorms per year, with the most in June, accounting for more than half of the total rainstorms. It lasts for a long time and the rain is fierce. Because the "vernal equinox" only touches the beginning of the flood season, I won't go into details here.