Autumnal Equinox Day

Mid-Autumn Festival is an official holiday of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and many Chinese ethnic groups, usually celebrated on the 15th day of lunar calendar, near the fall day. Because the lunar calendar is not synchronized with the Gregorian calendar, this date will be somewhere from mid September to early October. In the East Asian traditional calendar, we divide the year into 24 solar terms (meaning the sun's term, literally "climate festival"), the fall dividing point (Autumn, China and Japan: Autumnal Equinox, Korean: Vietnam , Vietnamese: Thuphân) is in the middle of autumn. Season. In this case, kanji means "(equality) division" (during one season)

Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar - basically the full moon night - fall (the day between September 8 and October 7 of the Gregorian calendar). In 2018, it fell on 24th September. These days will happen in the next few years:

In the autumn equinox, day and night are about 12 hours each (the actual day and night are the same in the northern hemisphere, a few days after autumn). The sun crossed the equator south; it just rose to the east and just faced the west. Please check the first day of the autumn page. The winter solstice is the "shortest day" of that year, which means that sunshine is least. The sun reaches the southernmost tip of the sky (northern hemisphere) at noon local time. From this date on, the date will begin to "get longer". In other words, the amount of sunlight will begin to increase. Please check the first winter page.

Summer, spring to autumn, the warmest season in a year. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is usually defined as the summer solstice on June 21st or 22nd (the longest day of the year), the fall dividing point on September 22nd or 23rd (the same day), the Southern Hemisphere on 22nd December. From day 23 or 23 to March 20 or 21. Comparison of the temperature between summer and other seasons is done only at mid-high latitudes, and the temperature of the equatorial region usually does not change much from month to month. For the physical reasons of the season, please see the season