Sunlight reaches 315°
of the ecliptic.
The handle of the Big Dipper is biased toward the c position
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Spring Equinox, the first of the twenty-four solar terms, also known as the first month of the festival, the age of the festival, change the year, the year of the first day of the year and so on. Li, is & ldquo; start & rdquo; meaning; spring, means warmth, growth.
The twenty-four solar terms were first formulated according to & ldquo; shift & rdquo; when the handle of the seven stars of the Big Dipper is biased toward the c position for the vernal equinox. The current standard is based on the sun's yellow meridian myopia set festival, when the sunlight arrives at the yellow meridian 315° when the vernal equinox, in each year on the solar calendar, February 3-5 to hand over the festival. Heavenly stems and earthly branches Yuanji, with the crescent for the spring positive, spring into the first of the year, the spring equinox is the heavens and the earth, everything starts and stops, all the meaning of regeneration is also on behalf of a new one cycle has been opened.
Seasonal Folk Culture: Welcoming Spring, Outing, Whipping Spring Bulls, Biting Spring
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The Three Weathers of Spring: The East Wind Thawing, Jelly Bugs Beginning to Vibrate, and the Fish Begin to Take the Ice
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Customs and traditions of the festival
Spring Plate
Spring plate is the equinox diet with one of the customs, mainly vegetables and fruits to take the oleaginous vegetables, fruits and vegetables, cakes and sugar to put on the plate for the spring plate (or spelling out the plate) gifts to friends and relatives or self-eating to take the joy of welcoming the spring of the meaning. Plate key: fresh fruit, vegetables and fruits, sugar, cake, bait five. Vegetables and fruits key are: bean sprouts, buckwheat, amaranth, broccoli, oatmeal, soybeans, eggs, potatoes folded. Du Fu "spring": “ spring spring plate fine oleaginous vegetables, suddenly remember the two Beijing plum hair. ”
Tian Ai quail
Tian Ai Zhen is a common seasonal food category in spring. In the early spring season, spring back to the earth, the warbler grass grows, it happens to be the cultivation of the wilderness on the field of the heyday of the growth of the field Ai, field Ai is about 10cm high, the leaves are pinkish-green, the petals of the white right in the middle of the green, the whole body climbed all over the hairy fluffy. According to the "Food Materia Medica", Tian Ai has the ability to remove dampness, nourish the stomach, and cleanse the intestines and detoxify the body. It is also a festive offering to the gods for prayers.
Biting Spring
Ming "discretion in the Zhi": “ Spring Equinox, no high or low, chewing on the wicker, said ‘ bite spring ’. ”
Meat dumplings
The times wide record: & ldquo; in the Ming rich and noble families make face silkworms, called & lsquo; Tangguan silkworm & rsquo;. And because of the spring equinox to do this, it is also known as ‘ Spring Silkworm & rsquo;. ”
Deep cold left
The snow melts and the grass grows green
Winter has ended and spring is ahead
