In China, is the Spring Festival in winter or spring?

Whether the Spring Festival is in spring or winter is not certain, it depends on the specific year. The date of the Spring Festival is fixed on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and the solar term in beginning of spring is around February 4th every year. Beginning of spring solar terms represent the formal establishment of spring, even after beginning of spring, it will enter spring. According to the cycle principle of the calendar, beginning of spring will be on New Year's Eve 19 every year, so whether the Spring Festival is in winter or spring depends on the year.

According to the customary tradition of farming society in China, beginning of spring is the beginning of spring. Every year, the solar term in beginning of spring falls on or before February 5th, which means that spring will come after beginning of spring.

But many people think that spring should be associated with temperature. According to this cognition, ten degrees Celsius is generally used as the dividing line between winter and spring. The average temperature in winter is less than 10℃, and the average temperature in spring is more than 10℃. In this way, spring in many parts of our country does not all begin in beginning of spring.

China spans more than 60 degrees longitude from east to west, and there are five time zones between the easternmost Wusuli River and the westernmost Pamirs. The easternmost point is at the intersection of the central line of the main channel of Heilongjiang and Wusuli River; The westernmost point is near the Pamirs. It spans 50 dimensions from north to south, with the northernmost point on the center line of the main channel of Heilongjiang, north of Mohe and the southernmost point on the ruins shoal (note that this is not the Zengmu shoal located about 15 nautical mile northeast).

This leads to inconsistent temperatures in different places, so the earliest and latest arrival time of spring is much different.

The southernmost island in the South China Sea lies in the tropics. In February, the coolest weather in a year, the average temperature is 22.9 degrees Celsius. It can be said that there is no spring and winter here, and it is summer all year round.

There are not many cold days in Kunming, Guangzhou, and birds and flowers are almost everywhere all year round.

In Wuhan, central China, spring begins in mid-March.

Spring in Tianjin and Beijing will not begin until early April.

Spring comes later in Northeast China, with Shenyang in mid-April and Harbin in late April.

The latest place where spring comes is Mohe City, Heilongjiang Province, the northernmost part of China, and it won't start until late May.