equinox
On the fourth day of the first half of spring, the spring color is in the middle. The vernal equinox is the fourth solar term of spring, indicating that halfway through spring, everything is growing at the right time. On the day of the spring equinox, Chinese folk have had customs such as flying kites, eating spring vegetables, and setting up eggs since ancient times. Let's follow the small reporters of China Net and take a look at their "spring equinox customs"!
Hebei Baoding Normal School
Liu Xiaomeng
My family's spring equinox
There are twenty-four solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar, and each solstice indicates weather changes and tells the wisdom of the Chinese nation's agricultural civilization. The day and night of the spring equinox divide the time equally, and the spring is halfway through, when it is the scene of red flowers, willows, green, swallows dancing warblers, and full of vitality. In my hometown, there is a custom of erecting eggs on the day of the spring equinox, as the saying goes: when the spring equinox arrives, the eggs are pretty. Legend has it that the egg can be easily erected on this day, and people have taken pleasure in the competition. You can also pray for yourself and your family.
Hebei Longhua Cunrui Middle School
Wong Kar Lok
"Yan Fei is still everyone, and the flowers have fallen one after another" This is a verse in the Tang Dynasty poet Xu Xuan's "Spring Equinox Day". Spring is one of the twenty-four solar terms, and also - the fourth solar term of spring.
As one of the important festivals of the twenty-four solar terms, there are many folk customs on the day of the spring equinox, and since ancient times, there is a folk saying that "the spring equinox arrives, the eggs are pretty". Every spring equinox, tens of millions of people around the world experiment with the game of "erect eggs". In Chinese folklore, there are also unique customs such as "flying kites" and "eating spring vegetables".
There is a proverb: "The spring and the sun turn, the rain and the goose are by the river; the crows are stung, and the soil is dry at the spring equinox." "After the vernal equinox, crops enter the growth phase, and the rapid rise in temperature will lead to land drought, and crops need a lot of water to grow. In the north of the continent, where there is little rain in the spring, it becomes particularly important to grasp the spring pot. When the spring equinox arrived, the peasant uncles began to be busy with farming and production, and the fields showed a scene of hard work.
At the time of the spring equinox, when the harsh winter has faded and the weather is getting warmer, people take off their bulky cotton clothes, change into spring clothes, and hurry up to go to the green and go for a picnic on this day of the revival of all things. Go and feel the arrival of spring in a variety of ways.
A little green emerged from the bare ground, and it was the grass that protruded its head, and the river melted into ice, and ran into the distance.
The spring equinox is like a clear spring in the desert, a door in the dead end, and hope in failure, giving people the feeling of "mountains and rivers are full of doubts and no way, willows are dark and flowers are bright and another village", and that feeling is warm.
When we break away from the white world that has been numb for months, it is like being suppressed for a long time and finally being released, and the scene of spring is refreshing.
A spring rain is a warm one, and the arrival of the spring equinox symbolizes the beginning of hope, and spring is the season of growth.
The yearning for spring is about to come true.
Dazu Primary School in Lugu Lake, Yanyuan County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Yang You grabbed Nam
Dongguan Chang'an Town No. 2 Primary School
Kang Yuxuan
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