How to express the 24 Solar Terms in English? (above)

The twenty-four solar terms (二十四节气) is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people, and farmers used it to arrange farming activities, which can be regarded as the treasures of ancient farming. In today's world, the solar terms also have far-reaching cultural significance for us. Do you know how to say 24 solar terms in English? Follow your teacher to learn!

Beginning of Spring

Beginning of Spring

Beginning of Spring is the first of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. Spring means wind and sunshine, birds and flowers; spring also means everything grows and farmers sow seeds.

Beginning of Spring is the first solar term in the lunar calendar. Spring comes along with sunny days, teeming with flowers. And the seeds were sowed at this time of the year.

The Rains

The Rains

At this time of the year, the temperature rises, snow and ice melt, and there is more precipitation, so it is called the Rains.

The weather gets warmer with the ice melting, so does the water fall from the sky.

The Waking of Insects

The stinging insects wake up, the weather turns warmer, and there is a gradual spring thunder. Most of China enters the spring plowing season.

The insects came to life with the warmer weather, and the spring thunder humbling too. It?s time to farm the waking lands.

Spring Equinox

Spring Equinox

The seasons are reversed in the northern and southern hemispheres, with the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the fall equinox in the southern hemisphere. The Spring Equinox is also the New Year in Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

Since the weathers are inverse in the north and east atmospheres, it?s Autumn in the south. Spring Equinox is also the time of spring festival in countries like Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

Tomb-sweeping

Tomb-sweeping

A festival that is very close in origin to the Qingming Festival is the Cold Food Festival, where fireworks are forbidden and cold food is eaten. Qingming signifies the official start of the spring season. Tomb-sweeping is traditional, but isn't its English translation slightly less aesthetically pleasing?

There is a festival related to it called Cold Food Festival on which day people can?t use fire so they can only eat cold food. Spring time begins officially according to the calendar. We all know that it?s a tradition to sweep tombs this day, but the translation is kind of stiff.

Grain Rain

There is a festival related to it called Cold Food Festival on which day people can?t use fire so they can only eat cold food. Grain Rain

The last festival of spring. The rain is abundant and timely, and cereal crops thrive. There is a saying that ? Qingming breaks the snow, Grain Rain breaks the frost? , is also elaborating on the characteristics of this festival.

Grain Rain is the last solar term of spring. Around Grain Rain the rain is quite plentiful so the crops grow well. There is an saying goes like that ? Gone was the snow as Qingming came, gone was the frost as Grain Rain came.?

Beginning of Summer

Beginning of Summer

The temperature rises markedly, the heat is quite plentiful so the crops grow well.

The temperature grows significantly with more and more rain. It?s and important time for the crops growth