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What is the custom of vernal equinox?

The vernal equinox has the characteristics of equal division of day and night and equal division of vernal equinox. Customs include laying eggs vertically, flying kites, eating spring vegetables, sending spring cattle, sticking birds' mouths and so on. Details are as follows:

1, vertical eggs and vernal equinox are the easiest days to lay eggs, because the vernal equinox is the day when day and night are equal in the northern and southern hemispheres, and the inclination of the earth axis of 66.5 degrees is in a state of stress balance with the orbital plane, which is beneficial to vertical eggs.

2, flying kites, clear skies in Ran Ran, breezes, the most suitable for flying kites. You can fly a kite to exercise your muscles.

3, eat spring vegetables, spring vegetables are a kind of wild amaranth, the villagers call it Chunbihao. Spring vegetables collected on the vernal equinox are usually cooked with fish fillets at home, which is called spring soup.

4. Send a spring cow, the vernal equinox is coming soon, and then send a spring cow map from house to house. The annual lunar solar terms are printed on red paper or yellow paper, and farmers' ploughing patterns are also printed, which is called the Spring Cattle Map.

5. Stick the sparrow's mouth. On the vernal equinox, farmers will have a holiday according to the meeting. Every family will eat dumplings, and a dozen or twenty or thirty dumplings that don't need to be wrapped will be made. Put them on the outdoor ground with a thin bamboo fork, which is called sticking the sparrow's mouth.