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March 20 marks the Spring Equinox, or Chunfen in Chinese, the 1 (four) term in the Chinese lunar calendar. On this day, day and night are 2 (equal) divided, and the length of daytime will grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere afterwards.
Peach blossoms enter their great time and give tourists a lot of pleasure with pinkish flowers. Since ancient times, peach blossoms 3 (use) to describe women. The romantic flowers also signal love from others.
The Spring Equinox is marked as the 4 (begin) of the busy farming season. People make preparations for raising spring silkworms.
Starting from the Spring Equinox and before the Qingming Festival, Chinese farmers are the 5 (busy) with tea harvesting, as the tea leaves 6 (collect) during this period are considered to be 7 high quality.
People have a cup of the very first tea shoots in spring as 8 way to get close to nature.
The ancient Chinese people 9 (divide) the fifteen days of the Spring Equinox into three “hou’s,” or five-day parts. As the old saying goes, swallows fly back to the North in the first hou; thunder breaks the sky in the second hou; lightning occurs frequently in the third hou, 10 vividly reveal the climate feature during the Spring Equinox.