Narcissus blossoms to welcome the Start of Spring Day
Tomorrow (3 Feb 2021) is the Start of Spring Day in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
Frank the tour guide’s mother’s Narcissus has blossomed today.
Good to see Narcissus blossoms just before the Start of Spring Day
It is a good sign to show Hong Kong is warm.
Thus the Covid-19 may be less active and the fourth wave of outbreak may end soon.
The flower is blossoming.
Frank is going to introduce the Start of Spring Day in this post.
Frank also sends everyone an early Chinese New Year wish!
May fortune comes with blooming flowers!
Start of Spring Day was the Chinese New Year Day in the past
From the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24), China has built the 24 Solar Terms system in Chinese calendar.
Start of Spring Day is the first Solar Term.
It was set as the day of Spring Festival or Chinese New Year Day.
Even under the pandemic, Hong Kong citizens still flock to Flower Market to buy flowers for the coming Chinese New Year.
Chinese calendar is mainly for facilitating farming production.
Thus the celebration for the Start of Spring Day is related to the best friend of peasants, ox.
Cows on Lantau Island are no need to work on farm land anymore. To say hello to them near the Big Buddha, you may book Frank’s Lantau Island Big Buddha Private car tour.
People use the clay to make a spring ox.
People whip the clay ox as a symbolization of “waking up” the ox to go farming at the beginning of spring.
In 1913, the Chinese Government chose the first day of the first month in Chinese Calendar as the official Chinese New Year Day
People still keep the Start of Spring Day whip cow rite up till today.
May fortune comes with blooming flowers
It is good to see the flowers blossom so early before the Start of Spring Day this year as it means the weather is warm.
Narcissus has a good smell.
Warm weather is important for curbing the spread of Covid-19.
Frank the tour guide hopes Hong Kong can start the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to beat the virus as early as possible.
Narcissus is a popular flower for Chinese New Year.
Frank also sends readers the Chinese New Year blessing in advance.
May fortune comes with blooming flowers!
