When is the Spring Equinox in 2017? What customs are there during the Spring Equinox?
Introduction: We all know that the Spring Equinox is one of the 24 solar terms. On this day, the sun shines directly on the earth's equator, and the seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are opposite. In the northern hemisphere, it is the Spring Equinox, and in the southern hemisphere, it is the Autumn Equinox. So when is the Spring Equinox in 2017? What customs are there during the Spring Equinox? Let’s find out together! February is such a beautiful month, when everything comes back to life and welcomes spring. Let us have a deeper understanding of every detail of the second month of the lunar calendar.When is the Spring Equinox in 2017?The vernal equinox begins on March 20 (or 21) and ends on April 4 (or 5) every year.The vernal equinox begins on March 20 or 21 of the Gregorian calendar every year when the sun reaches 0 degrees of ecliptic longitude (the vernal equinox). The length of day and night on this day is equal, which is exactly halfway through the ninety days of spring, so it is called the "Spring Equinox". The time of the spring equinox in 2017 is 18:28:35 on March 20, 2017 Lunar calendar: February 23 What are the customs of the Spring Equinox?1. The Spring Equinox becomes the best time to play the egg standing game, hence the saying “When the Spring Equinox comes, the eggs will be pretty.”2. Eat spring vegetables "Eat spring vegetables during the Spring Equinox." "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, which the locals call "Spring Green Artemisia". The spring vegetables picked on the Spring Equinox are usually boiled with fish fillets in a soup called "Spring Soup". 3. Sending the Spring Ox The Spring Equinox is about to arrive, and at that time people will send pictures of the Spring Ox to every household. The picture is made of red or yellow paper with the lunar calendar dates of the whole year printed on it, as well as a picture of a farmer plowing the fields. It is called the "Spring Ox Picture". 4. Catching sparrows' beaks On the day of the Spring Equinox, farmers have a holiday according to custom. Every family eats glutinous rice dumplings, and they also cook more than ten or twenty to thirty glutinous rice dumplings without fillings. They use thin bamboo forks to stick them on the ground outside the field. This is called "catching sparrows' beaks" to prevent sparrows from destroying the crops. 5. Spring Festival: On the Spring Equinox in February, people start sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, which is also called the Spring Festival. Before tomb sweeping, a grand ceremony of ancestor worship is held in the ancestral hall, with pigs and sheep being slaughtered, drummers playing music, ritual students reading sacrificial texts, and leading the three offerings ceremony. 6. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were memorial ceremonies on the Spring Equinox. This custom has been passed down from generation to generation. Pan Rongbi of the Qing Dynasty wrote in The Chronicle of the Capital's Sui Shi Sheng: "Sacrifices to the sun on the Spring Equinox and to the moon on the Autumn Equinox are grand national ceremonies, and scholars and common people are not allowed to offer sacrifices on their own." Origin of the Spring EquinoxThe Spring Equinox is the midpoint of the ninety days of spring. In ancient times, it was also called "the middle of the day", "the division of day and night", and "the moon of mid-spring". "Equinox" means dividing spring into two equal parts, and on this day the day and night are almost equal.The significance of the Spring Equinox is, firstly, that the day and night are equally divided, 12 hours each; secondly, in ancient times the spring season lasted from the Beginning of Spring to the Beginning of Summer, and the Spring Equinox falls in the middle of the three months of spring, dividing the spring season equally. "Collected Explanations of the Seventy-two Seasons of the Lunar Calendar" states: "In the middle of February, the word fen means half, which corresponds to the middle of a ninety-day period, so it is called fen. Autumn has the same meaning." "Spring and Autumn Fanlu: Yin Yang Out and In, Parts 1 and 2" states: "The spring equinox is when yin and yang are half and half, so the day and night are equal and the cold and heat are balanced." The Spring Equinox is the period of the year when yin and yang are balanced, day and night are equal, and cold and heat are half and half. Summary: After reading the above content about the customs of the Spring Equinox in 2017, you can refer to the different customs. I hope the above content can help you! |
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