The Spring Equinox is celebrated every year from March 19th to 22nd in the Gregorian calendar.

The Spring Equinox is the fourth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and is an important time for farming.

The sun shines directly on the Earth's equator, making day and night almost equal.

In ancient times, spring was from the beginning of spring to the beginning of summer, and the vernal equinox was in the middle of the three months of spring.

"On the vernal equinox, yin and yang are half in phase. Therefore, day and night are even and the cold and heat are equal."

It is recorded in the lunar calendar that "Dou Zhi Ren is the vernal equinox, and it travels around the sky. Day and night are equally divided in the northern and southern hemispheres. It is also the middle of spring, so it is called the vernal equinox." From this day on, the direct position of the sun gradually moves northward, and day and night are equally divided in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The length also changes accordingly. The days are longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the nights are shorter in the Southern Hemisphere.

My hometown is in the south of the Yangtze River. The traditional custom of the spring equinox is to eat spring vegetables "Chun Cai", a kind of wild amaranth, which the locals call "Chunbi Artemisia", and make soup with fish fillets, which is called "Spring Soup".

"Spring soup fills the internal organs and cleanses the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, is safe and healthy." To send Spring Niu, two pieces of red or yellow paper are printed with the lunar solar terms of the year and a pattern of farmers plowing the fields, which is called "Spring Niu Picture".

To stand the egg upright, choose a smooth and well-proportioned fresh egg that is just four or five days old, and gently stand it upright on the table.

Although there are many losers, there are also many winners.

The Spring Equinox is the best time to play the egg-sticking game.

Nianquezui Every family eats glutinous rice balls, and they also cook some dumplings that are not filled with fillings, stick them with thin bamboo forks and place them on the ridge of the outdoor field, called Nianquezui, to prevent sparrows from destroying the crops.

Kite flying On the day of the spring equinox, there are king kites, silver carp kites, narrow moth kites, thunder bug kites, moonlight kites, etc. The big ones are two meters high and the small ones are two or three feet.

Rewarding the cattle The spring equinox has arrived, and spring plowing, spring sowing and other farm work are about to begin. The family's cattle have never been idle since spring plowing.

Therefore, when the spring equinox arrives, farmers often feed their cattle with glutinous rice balls as a reward.

It also contains the rural people's sympathy for the cattle.

The Spring Equinox is dedicated to the sun, and the Autumn Equinox is dedicated to the moon. In ancient times, the Spring Equinox was also known as "the middle of the day," "the equinox of day and night," and "the moon of mid-spring." It is not a traditional festival, but an important solar term that indicates agricultural production, as can be seen from its alias.

During the spring equinox, the day and night are of equal length, and then the position of direct sunlight gradually moves northward, making the days gradually longer and the nights shorter.

Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty mentioned in "Spring and Autumn Dew: Yin and Yang go in and out": "On the vernal equinox, yin and yang are half in phase, so day and night are even and the cold and heat are equal." "History of the Ming Dynasty Li Yi" said: "The equinox is when yellow and red intersect.

When the sun reaches this point, day and night are equinoxed. Because it is closely related to agricultural activities, there are still folk sayings that "there is no rain on the vernal equinox for plowing the fields" and "if there is rain on the vernal equinox, it is a good year".