Vernal Equinox Festival Introduction Vernal Equinox Ordinary Introduction

1. Vernal Equinox is the fourth of the twenty-four solar terms and an important time for farming. The sun shines directly on the earth's equator, and day and night are almost equal. In ancient times, spring to summer was spring, and the vernal equinox falls in the middle of the three months of spring. The sun reaches 0 degrees of the yellow longitude and crosses the festival on March 19~22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "The equinox, yin and yang half. Therefore, the day and night are even and the cold and heat are even." Lunar calendar book records "Doo refers to non for the equinox, about the circumference of the day, the north and south hemispheres day and night are divided, but also when the spring half, so it is called the vernal equinox." From this day onwards, the position of direct sunlight gradually to the north, the northern and southern hemispheres, the length of day and night also change, the northern hemisphere, the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere, and the opposite of the day is long and the night is short.

2, the spring equinox, rain increased significantly, the average ground temperature in China has stabilized through 10 degrees, which is the climatological definition of the spring temperature. And after the spring equinox, the climate is mild, rainfall, sunny, most of China's overwintering crops into the spring growth stage, this time is also the sowing period of early rice.

3, the vernal equinox has three waiting: "one waiting for the Xuanbird to arrive, two waiting for Lei Nai sound, three waiting for the beginning of electricity". Send spring bull figure is also one of the customs of the spring equinox. In addition, the worship of birds, sticky bird beak and other spring equinox customs, also carries the expectations of people for the farming season.