Culture Insider: 5 things you may not know about the Spring Equinox
Updated: 2015-03-20 18:05
(chinaculture.org)
Swallows fly northThe ancient Chinese people divided 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 cracks the sky in the second hou; lightning occurs frequently in the third hou, which vividly reveals the climate feature during the Spring Equinox.
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