The beginning of the spring solar term, which is considered to be the first of the year, has always attracted special attention, especially in agriculture, as the weather gradually warms up after the beginning of spring, it also means that the best time for sowing is coming. So, do you know the specific time of the beginning of spring in 2024?What time is the beginning of spring this year?Let's take a look.
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The specific time of the beginning of spring in 2024 is February 4, 2024, and the lunar calendar is the 25th day of the lunar month. The beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, which marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Because this day is the beginning of the four seasons and the spring begins to fall, it is called "the beginning of spring". People will carry out some celebrations on this day, such as worshipping ancestors, pasting couplets, eating traditional foods of the Spring Festival, etc.
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According to legend, the ancients set the beginning of spring as the first of the 24 solar terms, because on the day of the beginning of spring, looking up at the starry sky at 7 o'clock in the evening, it can be seen that the handle of the Big Dipper is pointing to the northeast, that is, the place where the azimuth angle is 45 degrees, and the ancients called it Gen (one of the eight trigrams). The "Li" of Lichun means the beginning, and "Chun" means the season, so Lichun has the meaning that the solar terms of spring have begun. There is a saying in the agricultural proverb that "spring hits six or nine heads", "when the frost falls and when the winter falls, and the spring hits in forty-five days", starting from the winter solstice into the nine, "fifty-nine" forty-five days, so the beginning of spring is just the beginning of "sixty-nine". From this day until the beginning of summer, it has always been called "spring".
Beginning of spring customs
1. Welcome spring. Yingchun, also known as Yanchun, is an important activity of the beginning of spring, and Yingchun is carried out on the day before the beginning of spring, with the purpose of bringing back spring and Jumangshen. There are also many records in ancient books about this custom, it is reported that at the beginning of spring, Zhou Tianzi personally led the princes and doctors to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring and sacrifice, praying for a good harvest in agriculture.
2. Hit spring. Beat spring is also called "whip spring cow", "whip earth cow", that is, the "spring cow" picked up from the eastern suburbs of the city the day before the beginning of spring is whipped with a colored whip on the day of the beginning of spring, which means to spur the old cow to go down to the field and plough the field. At the beginning of spring, ** three times whipped the "spring cow" by the farmers to break it, so that the spring cattle in the production of the belly of the grain sprinkled on the ground, people scramble, the grain picked up into their own granary, meaning that the warehouse is full of grain.
3. Bite spring. The custom of biting spring refers to eating foods such as spring cakes, spring rolls, and lettuce on the day of the beginning of spring. Among them, spring cake is a typical seasonal food in spring, spring cake is a kind of thin flour cake, take lettuce, fruits, cakes, sugar, etc. and put it on the plate, take the meaning of welcoming the new year, when it is called "spring plate", it can also be given to relatives and friends to taste.
4. You Chun. After welcoming the good news of spring, the spring tour begins, the gong and drum teams and honor guards of each village and society walk in front, and the huge spring cow statue carried by four or eight people walks behind. Dancing as you walk, gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are ringing in unison, and the procession is magnificent and spectacular, paradling through the streets and alleys of the surrounding villages.