The auspicious date selected by the Chief Historian is five days later. At that time, the Emperor will lead the entire court of civil and military officials and his sons to the fields outside the capital to plant rice seedlings.
Every year during spring ploughing, the Emperor takes his ministers and sons to the fields to plant rice seedlings. This is an activity devised by the Emperor himself to show the people that the court takes spring ploughing very seriously.
Although this act might seem somewhat pretentious, the people are naturally very moved to see the Emperor care so much about spring ploughing.
Spring ploughing concerns the harvest of food for the entire year. Every year, farmers pay a great deal of attention to spring ploughing. Now that they see the Emperor putting such emphasis on it, the people naturally treat spring ploughing with even more seriousness.
