What are the customs of the spring equinox?
The Spring Equinox has interesting folk customs and customs such as erecting eggs, eating spring vegetables, and sticking sparrows" mouths.The vernal equinox is one of the twenty-four solar terms, which represents climate change, indicating that after the vernal equinox we are about to usher in long days and short nights, and the climate is getting warmer day by day.Therefore, in order to celebrate the arrival of the spring equinox, some interesting folk customs about the spring equinox have been circulating among the people.
What are the traditional folk customs during the vernal equinox
1.Vertical eggs:every spring equinox, people will place raw eggs vertically, and the raw eggs that have just been born for two or three days are also selected..Because according to legend, only the spring equinox in a year can put raw eggs upright, and at other times they cannot.According to modern science, this is because when the earth is rotating, on the day of the spring breeze, the earth"s axis will be in a relatively balanced state with its orbital orbit, so the eggs can be placed upright.
2.Eating spring vegetables:people take food as their heaven.No matter what festival or solar term, people must improve their diet, but different festivals and solar terms will have different eating customs.On the spring equinox, what people want to eat is spring vegetables, and spring vegetables are a common wild vegetable in the folk, and some people also call them "Chunbihao" and "wild foraging vegetables", and use this wild vegetable to make soup, stir-fry, stew, etc..
3.Sticky Bird Mouth:In some areas, people still have the custom of eating glutinous rice balls, but the glutinous rice balls eaten at this time are different from those on the 15th Lantern Festival.After the rice balls are cooked, they will stick the rice balls with thin bamboo sticks and place them on the edge of the field for the sparrows to peck at them, hoping to seal the mouths of the sparrows so that they will not damage the crops this year.This is the sticky sparrow mouth, which means sticking to the sparrow"s mouth.
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