The vernal equinox is one of the 24 solar terms and the fourth solar term in spring. Douzhiren, with solar yellow longitude up to 0 °, is handed in on March 19-22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The vernal equinox is of great significance in astronomy. On the day of the vernal equinox, the day and night of the northern and southern hemispheres divide equally. Since that day, the direct position of the sun continues to move from the equator to the northern hemisphere. The days in the northern hemisphere begin to grow longer than the nights, and the southern hemisphere is the opposite. In terms of climate, there are also obvious features. China has entered a beautiful spring except for the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Northeast China, Northwest China and the northern part of North China.
The timetable of the vernal equinox in recent years
| particular year |
date |
lunar calendar |
the Chinese zodiac |
week |
| two thousand and twenty-five |
2025-03-20 |
February 21, Yisi |
snake |
Thursday |
| two thousand and twenty-six |
2026-03-20 |
The second day of February in the year of Bingwu |
horse |
Friday |
| two thousand and twenty-seven |
2027-03-21 |
February 14th, Ding Weinian |
sheep |
Sunday |
| two thousand and twenty-eight |
2028-03-20 |
February 25, the year of the fifth lunar month |
monkey |
Monday |
| two thousand and twenty-nine |
2029-03-20 |
February 6, 2016 |
chicken |
Tuesday |
The meaning of the vernal equinox is that, on the one hand, the day and night are evenly divided, each being 12 hours; Second, in ancient times, the spring was from the beginning of spring to the beginning of summer, and the spring equinox was in the middle of three months of spring. After the spring equinox, the climate is mild, the rain is abundant, and the sun is bright. At the spring equinox, Chinese people have the customs of flying kites, eating spring vegetables, and laying eggs.
Song of the Twenty four Solar Terms
The spring rain startles the clear valley sky in spring. The summer is full of sunshine and the summer heat is connected.
There is dew in autumn, cold in autumn, frost falling, snow in winter, snow in winter, and cold in winter.
The two festivals of each month are unchanged, with a maximum difference of one or two days.
In the first half of the year, it was 621, and in the second half of the year, it was 823.
Twenty four seasonal songs
At the beginning of spring, the sun turns and the rain flows along the river;
Waking crows cry, and the skin dries at the vernal equinox;
The Qingming Festival is busy planting wheat, and the grain rain is planting fields.
The goose feather lives in the beginning of summer, and the small full sparrow comes to the whole;
May Festival of awn seed, no cotton in summer solstice;
Light heat is not hot, but severe heat is dog days.
In the beginning of autumn, I was busy fighting indigo and drying tigers in the summer;
White dew and smoke are put on the shelf, and there is no field on the autumnal equinox;
The cold dew is not cold, and the frost has changed the sky.
The beginning of winter is October, and the snow is sealed tightly;
On the fork of the snow river, there is no boat on the winter solstice;
The mild cold enters the December, and the severe cold lasts another year.
The seventy-two days of the vernal equinox correspond to the arrival of black birds on the day of the vernal equinox, the sound of thunder on the fifth day, and the electricity on the fifth day.
Seventy two marquis is a calendar supplement used to guide agricultural activities in ancient China. It is compiled according to the geography, climate and some natural scenes of the Yellow River basin. It is based on five days, three seasons, six seasons and four seasons. There are 72 seasons in a year. Each weather corresponds to a phenological phenomenon, which is called "waiting". Among them, plants are supposed to sprout, blossom, and bear fruit;
