In web Engineering, servlet can map to an http request path, and each servlet has its own life cycle. It uses init function to initialize and service function to provide services.
Spring MVC makes use of these characteristics of servlet, and ingeniously integrates the initialization of container into the initialization process of servlet.
So the container's initialization trigger is in servlet init.

org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init()Function.
@Override
    public final void init() throws ServletException {
        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("Initializing servlet '" + getServletName() + "'");
        }

        // Set bean properties from init parameters.
        PropertyValues pvs = new ServletConfigPropertyValues(getServletConfig(), this.requiredProperties);
        if (!pvs.isEmpty()) {
            try {
                BeanWrapper bw = PropertyAccessorFactory.forBeanPropertyAccess(this);
                ResourceLoader resourceLoader = new ServletContextResourceLoader(getServletContext());
                bw.registerCustomEditor(Resource.class, new ResourceEditor(resourceLoader, getEnvironment()));
                initBeanWrapper(bw);
                bw.setPropertyValues(pvs, true);
            }
            catch (BeansException ex) {
                if (logger.isErrorEnabled()) {
                    logger.error("Failed to set bean properties on servlet '" + getServletName() + "'", ex);
                }
                throw ex;
            }
        }

        // Let subclasses do whatever initialization they like.
        initServletBean();//This is covered by subclasses

        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("Servlet '" + getServletName() + "' configured successfully");
        }
    }

initServletBean(); / / this is covered by subclasses

@Override
    protected final void initServletBean() throws ServletException {
        getServletContext().log("Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet '" + getServletName() + "'");
        if (this.logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
            this.logger.info("FrameworkServlet '" + getServletName() + "': initialization started");
        }
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

        try {
            this.webApplicationContext = initWebApplicationContext();//Here's the key
            initFrameworkServlet();
        }
        catch (ServletException ex) {
            this.logger.error("Context initialization failed", ex);
            throw ex;
        }
        catch (RuntimeException ex) {
            this.logger.error("Context initialization failed", ex);
            throw ex;
        }

        if (this.logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
            long elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
            this.logger.info("FrameworkServlet '" + getServletName() + "': initialization completed in " +
                    elapsedTime + " ms");
        }
    }

this.webApplicationContext = initWebApplicationContext(); / / this is the key position. It is defined in org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(), which contains the logic of how root context and web context are established.