Xuzhou, Spring!

February 4, 2023, the 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar

It is the Lunar New Year.

At that time, the sun will pass along the circumference of the sky and

It will reach 315 degrees of yellow longitude.

The ancient Chinese astronomical and calendrical work "Lunar Order" states.

"Lichun, the first month of the year, is also the beginning of the year.

The five elements of Qi, the past is over, the future is continued.

At this point, the spring wood Qi begins to arrive.

Therefore, it is also called the beginning."

This is the beginning of the year.

The worship of the beginning of the year originated from the ancestors' reverence for heaven and earth.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, whenever a historian recorded the "first month", he had to add the word

must add the word "Wang".

It was called "Wang Zheng Yue".

This is to say that

Only a holy king can establish the true time.

Only a holy king can promulgate the first day of the year

Only a holy king can give spring.

When the sun and the hibernation start, everything is spring.

The Chinese have been observing spring for thousands of years.

At this time, although climatological spring has not yet arrived

But the news of growth has spread to the end of the world.

"One day after the first day of spring, all grasses return to sprout".

As winter turns to spring, preparations for plowing and planting

The farming season has begun.

The earth and the sky take fifteen days.

It is a five-day period.

There are three waiting periods at the beginning of spring.

"The first is the thawing of the east wind.

The second is when the stinging insects begin to stir.

The third is the arrival of the fish on the ice.

When the easterly wind comes, spring is in full view.

The dormant insects will start to move.

The fish on the river are swimming under the thin ice.

The fish on the river are swimming under the thin ice, and the broken ice is floating around as if the fish are carrying it on their backs.

Time to wake up, all you hibernators!

Spring is the first of the twenty-four solar terms.

In ancient China, folk celebrated the festival on the day of "Lichun".

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is "New Year's Day".

The change began in 1911.

At that time, the Xinhai Revolution brought the Gregorian calendar to China.

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar became "Spring Festival".

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar became "Spring Festival", and the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day".

As for the Spring Festival.

"You should just treat it as a festival"!

The "King of the Year", who was so high and mighty.

From then on, the "king of the year" stays between February 2 and 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

In some years, Spring Festival comes before Chinese New Year.

In some years, it falls after the Spring Festival.

Some years have two "springs".

In some years, there is no spring at all.

For example, the Year of the Rabbit is a leap year.

It begins on January 22, 2023 and lasts until February 9, 2024.

It begins on January 22, 2023 and ends on February 9, 2024.

It lasts 384 days, and has two February months and two "spring" months.

For more than 3,000 years

For more than 3,000 years, China has attached great importance to the Lunar New Year from the official to the private sector.

The customary ritual is for the emperor to take his ministers and

The customary ritual is for the emperor to bring his ministers to the outskirts of the city to welcome the Spring Festival, offering sacrifices and worshiping on the left and right.

The emperor would go to the outskirts of the city to welcome the Spring Festival, make offerings and worship, recite the Spring Mountain, the Spring Ox, and the Spring Beating.

And then ask for a fair wind and rain, the sea is calm and the river is clear.

The Song Dynasty's "Mengliang Lu" said.

"Spring day, the following ministers, into the court to say congratulations."

This matter in the "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu", the

It is said in more detail.

"the day before the spring.

The day before the spring, the Kaifeng Prefecture into the spring cattle into the forbidden whip spring.

Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties, set up spring cattle in front of the government.

To the day of the absolute early, the government bureaucrats playing spring, such as Fangzhou Yi.

In front of the government, people sold small spring cows.

They often sit in a column with flowers.

On the top of a hundred opera characters, spring streamers and snow willows, each offering.

On the spring day, the rulers and princes were given gold and silver streamers.

They all gave gold and silver streamers.

After entering the congratulation, Dai returned to his private home."

Whip spring, meaning to whip the spring cattle to promote spring plowing.

Spring cattle is a treasure, how can we do if they are broken.

Therefore, we simply make a fake cow to fight, the real cow brought over to accompany.

The real cattle brought over to accompany the side is good.

The Qing people's yearly festival is more interesting.

Not only to comply with the system of whip spring, but also to drum and blow the sheng.

The "Imperial Capital Yearly Times Chronicle of Victory" contains.

"spring day, the

The provinces will be the prefectures and counties to comply with the system whip spring.

In addition to the capital division of each department whip spring, the

The capital, in addition to each office whip spring, painted with color according to the map of the Jing system manshen earth cow.

Lifted to the colored pavilion, guided by ceremonial drums."

Spring rolls is the evolution of the ancient spring cake eaten on the day of spring.

At the beginning of spring, "rich families eat a lot of spring cakes".

The Song dynasty Chen Yuanliang "years and times wide record" said:

"The day before the spring, the spring cake, and wine to give near ministers."

The Qing dynasty's "Emperor's Capital Yearly Chronicle" also describes this spring cake: "Although the common people's homes, they are also given wine.

"Although the common people's homes, but also must cut chicken and dolphin, cooking noodles cake.

And mixed with lettuce, green leek buds, goat's horn onion, punching and combined vegetable skin.

And raw food water red radish, called 'bite spring'."

There is chicken and pork, as well as seasonal vegetables and spices.

This "spring", bite up really delicious.

Spring.

It is the most moving poem.

The vermilion powder is not deep and even.

The leisurely flowers are light spring.

The spring color is intoxicating to the mountain man.

The wine presses the tops of flowers.

The water in the pond is green and the wind is warm.

Remembering the first meeting of Yu Chen.

The spring hills are at the end of the flat weeds.

The pedestrians are outside the spring mountains.

Heaven and earth are running a relay race.

Spring is the first baton.