What are the characteristics of the vernal equinox solar terms?

The characteristics and customs of the vernal equinox solar terms are as follows:

I. Characteristics

1, divided equally between day and night. At the vernal equinox, the direct point of the sun is on the equator. At this time, the northern and southern hemispheres are equally divided day and night, and day and night are 12 hours. There are only two days in a year, namely the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox.

2. Divide the seasons equally. This solar term is called vernal equinox because it divides spring equally. According to the 24 solar terms, the period from beginning of spring to long summer is spring, and the vernal equinox is just in the middle of spring, which divides spring into two parts.

3. The climate is mild and there is plenty of rain. After the vernal equinox, the temperature rose obviously and the precipitation increased.

Except for some parts of northern China, many areas have entered a bright spring, but sometimes there will be spring drought and late spring cold.

Second, the customs.

1, eat spring vegetables

Lingnan custom, Xie's in Cangzhen, Kaiping, was originally four cities (with Heshan as five cities), and there is an unbroken custom called "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables.

Step 2 send spring cattle

The vernal equinox is coming soon, and there will be a picture of spring cattle delivered door to door. The picture is printed with red paper or yellow paper on the lunar solar terms all the year round, and also printed with farmers' ploughing patterns, which is called "Spring Cattle Map". The people who send pictures are folk singers, who mainly say things like spring ploughing and auspiciousness that are not against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they say whatever they see until the owner is happy to give money.

Step 3 stick the sparrow's mouth

According to custom, farmers have a holiday on the vernal equinox. Every family should eat dumplings, cook a dozen or twenty or thirty dumplings without wrapping them, and put them on the outdoor ridge beside the field with thin bamboo forks, which is called sticking sparrows' mouths, so as not to destroy crops.

Climatic conditions of solar terms in vernal equinox

During the vernal equinox, the daily average temperature in all parts of China rose steadily to above 0℃ except the alpine mountain area and the area north of 45 north latitude. At this time, the cold has passed and the temperature has risen rapidly, especially in North China and Huanghuai Plain. The daily average temperature rises to above 10℃ almost at the same time as the rainy areas along the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River, entering a bright spring. On the vast land, on the bank of willow green, the grass grows in Fei Ying, the wheat is jointing, the rape blossoms are fragrant, the peach blossoms are red, the plum blossoms are yellow, and South China is a scene of late spring.