你可知春分是什么時候？春分用英語怎么說？春分，是春季九十天的中分點。二十四節(jié)氣之一，每年公歷大約為3月20日左右，太陽位于黃經(jīng)0°（春分點）時。春分這一天太陽直射地球赤道，南北半球季節(jié)相反，北半球是春分，在南半球來說就是秋分。

It is a tradition in many places of China to erect eggs on vernal equinox, a term of Chinese lunar calendar. It is said that due to the sun's equidistant position between the poles of the earth on the first day of the spring, special gravitational forces apply.

在立春日豎雞蛋是中國的一個傳統(tǒng)習俗。據(jù)說由于在春天的第一天，太陽位于地球兩極的中央，由于特殊的重力作用，雞蛋很容易被豎著放置。

“春分”這個詞有點難度哦，看上去就很陌生：vernal equinox
vernal意為春天的；而equinox意為“一年中白晝和黑夜長度相同的日子”，這樣的日子一年只有兩次，就是春分和秋分啦，秋分的英文就是autumnal equinox。
所以，今天必小編就為你總結(jié)一下“春分”這個節(jié)氣的最全英語知識~

春分發(fā)生在什么時間？
"Vernal Equinox” arrives around March 21 every year and on this day, the sun is vertically above a point on the equator.
春分發(fā)生在每年3月21日前后，在這天太陽正好直射于赤道。
春分節(jié)氣代表了什么呢？
“Vernal Equinox” indicates two meanings. Firstly, on this day, the night and day are approximately equally long with 12 hours each. Secondly, it’s the mid-point for the spring season.“
春分”代表了2層意思。第一，這一天白天和夜晚時間等長，都只有12個小時。第二，它是春季的中間點。
形成原因
Vernal Equinox is the middle of spring and usually on the 20 or 21 of March every year. On this day, the sun directly blazes down the equator, so that day and night is equal  in length.
春分是在春天中期，通常在每年的三月20或者21號。這一天，太陽直射赤道，所以白天、黑夜是一樣長的。
氣候特征
After this day, the sun continues to move to the north hemisphere and the temperature continues to rise. Daily average temperature in most areas in China reaches 0 degree Celsius above.
從春分以后，太陽繼續(xù)向北半球移動，氣溫持續(xù)上升。在中國大部分區(qū)域，日均氣溫為0°以上。
春分的寓意
Humans living thousands of years may not have known the details of this astronomy, but over generations they certainly learnt that the Earth gets warmer and colder in pretty regular cycles, with the spring equinox marking one point when the Northern Hemisphere begins to shrug off winter’s cold.
活了幾千年的人類可能并不是很清楚這個天文學上的詳細原因，但是世世代代的人們都知道地球會周期性地降溫和回暖，春分是其中的一個時間劃分點，意味著北半球開始擺脫冬天的寒冷。
Warmer temperatures thaw frozen  ground to make it easier for planting crops , increased rainfall waters these and animals that hibernated over winter emerge from their dens. 
氣溫回暖，土地解凍，適合種植農(nóng)作物，同時降雨增加，灌溉莊稼，冬眠越冬的動物也從各自的小窩里出來了。
傳統(tǒng)習俗
According tofolklore , you can stand a raw egg on its end on the equinox. Now Folklore or not, this egg trick sounded like a bit of fun to us. 
跟據(jù)民間傳說，你可以在春分的時候把生雞蛋豎起來?，F(xiàn)在，不管是不是民俗，這對我們來說都是一個很好玩的游戲。
One spring, a few minutes before the vernal equinox, several Almanac editors tried this trick and 17 out of 24 eggs stood standing. 
有一年春天，在春分前的幾分鐘，幾個年鑒編輯試過這一招，其中24個雞蛋里，有17個被豎立起來了。

Three days later, we tried this trick again and found similar results. Perhaps 3 days after the equinox was still too near. Perhaps the equinox has nothing to do with it.Try this yourself and you know what happens.
三天后，我們再次嘗試這一招，我們卻發(fā)現(xiàn)結(jié)果是相似的。也許是春分后第3天，這個時間還是太接近。也許能不能豎起雞蛋其實跟春分并沒有什么關(guān)系。你可以自己嘗試一下，就知道會發(fā)生什么了。

春分飲食小貼士
Since “Vernal Equinox” equally divides day and night, people should pay more attention on the balance of Yin Qi and Yang Qi in human’s body. 
由于“春分”晝夜平分，人們就更應該關(guān)注體內(nèi)“陰氣”與“陽氣”的平衡。
Traditional Chinese medical practice shows that to balance Yin and Yang, the human body requires both“supplying” and “releasing”. 
傳統(tǒng)中國醫(yī)療實踐表明，為了平衡陰氣和陽氣，人體需要同時“補給”和“釋放”。
For example, when eating food with cold nature such ascrab, fish andprawn, it’s better to cook them with food with warm nature such as ginger, spring onion, wines and vinegar.
比如，想吃生冷寒性食物，諸如螃蟹、魚、蝦，最好把它們和溫性食物，如姜、洋蔥、葡萄酒和醋一起烹飪。