Characteristics and Customs of the Spring Equinox

Characteristics of the spring equinox: 1, day and night are equally divided, equally divided spring.2, spring warmth dominates. Customs of the Spring Equinox: 1. setting up eggs. 2. spring festival. 3. eating spring vegetables

The "minute" of the spring equinox has two meanings: first, it refers to the "equal division of day and night". The day of the equinox sunlight directly on the equator, almost global day and night, that is, the day and night time is equal, are 12 hours. At this time, the North Pole after half a year of darkness, the first sunshine in this day, while the corresponding South Pole will bid farewell to the sun on this day. If the period from spring to summer is taken as spring, the vernal equinox is the midpoint of spring, which is exactly the equal division of spring. The vernal equinox divides the ninety days from the beginning of spring to the beginning of summer into two, hence the name equinox. The vernal equinox is the midpoint of the ninety days of spring, when the sun's rays shine directly on the Earth's equator, and the global day and night are almost equal in length. Since then, the sun continues to move directly north, so the equinox is also known as the "rising equinox", also known as the ancient times, "the middle of the day", "day and night", "the month of mid-spring ". Since this day after the northern hemisphere day began to be longer than the night, the southern hemisphere and the opposite. In the climate, there are also more obvious features, China, except for the Tibetan Plateau, Northeast, Northwest and Northern China outside of the northern regions have entered the bright spring. The significance of the equinox, one refers to the time of day day and night equally divided, each for 12 hours; second is the ancient spring to summer for spring, the equinox is just spring 3 months, the equal division of the spring.