Folk customs of spring in the south

During the solar term in beginning of spring, the folk customs in the south included eating lettuce, drinking radish soup and eating spring rolls.

1, eat lettuce

Eating lettuce in early spring is an ancient custom in China. According to ancient books, there was an eclipse of reeds, spring cakes and lettuce in early spring. Reed is radish, spring cake is pancake, and lettuce is a wild vegetable born in spring. Now in early spring, we usually eat raw carrots in the north and lettuce in the south.

Step 2 drink radish soup

There is a folk saying, eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. Beginning of spring is a time of communication between warm and cold. In the south, beginning of spring will stew radish soup on this day, which is euphemistically called beginning of spring radish soup. In the south, radish soup is a common soup. The main ingredient is white radish. Common radish soups include white jade scallop soup, mutton radish soup, ribs kelp radish soup, shrimp skin vermicelli radish soup and so on.

Step 3 eat spring rolls

Beginning of spring has a beautiful meaning of the beginning of spring. When I was in beginning of spring, it was said that spring cakes were eaten in the north, while spring rolls were popular in the south. Spring rolls, at the earliest, were wrapped in the style of spring cocoons. Later, because Su Dongpo had a poem about the arrival of spring, it was called Spring Volume.

The origin of solar terms in beginning of spring;

Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, which occupies an extremely important position in China's traditional farming society. Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, the customs and cultures of the north and the south were different. In some places, the first day of the lunar calendar is not the first day of the lunar calendar, but beginning of spring and beginning of spring have 24 solar terms.

The beginning of New Year's Eve is of great significance to the traditional farming society. Major celebration activities, such as ancestor worship, praying for New Year's blessings, exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, are all held around the Spring Festival. This series of festivals not only constitutes the framework of the New Year's Eve Festival in later generations, but also retains its folk function to this day.