秋分英语文章

Mid-Autumn Festival The 15th day of the 8th lunar month The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates（石榴）, melons, oranges and pomelos（柚子） might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro（芋头）and water caltrope（菱角）, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival. The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子）, lotus seeds（莲籽）, almonds（杏仁）, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard（猪油）. A golden yolk（蛋黄） from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary（闰月的） moon

The 24 Solar Terms:立春Spring begins.雨水The rains.惊蛰Insects awaken.春分Vernal Equinox 清明Clear and bright.谷雨Grain rain.立夏Summer begins.小满Grain buds.芒种Grain in ear.夏至Summer solstice.小暑Slight heat.大暑Great heat.立秋Autumn begins.处暑Stopping the heat.白露White dews.秋分Autumn Equinox.寒露Cold dews.霜降Hoar-frost falls.立冬Winter begins.小雪Light snow.大雪Heavy snow.冬至Winter Solstice.小寒Slight cold.大寒Great cold

英语作文：

Autumn is the beginning of autumn. The sun reaches the yellow longitude 135 degrees every year on August 7 or 8. The Chinese lunar New Year, the seventh lunar New Year. Autumn, pull also, the thing is in this and clench also." The fall of autumn generally indicates that the hot summer is coming and autumn is coming. After the autumn (solar term), the next rain in the autumn is cool, so there is "a cold autumn rain". "Four people's moon order" : "the autumn, chilly; The night begins, the heat stops. Early in the zhou dynasty, in the early days of the autumn, the father of the three male relatives of the three officials to the western suburbs to yingqiu, held a sacrificial ceremony. According to the record, in the autumn of the song dynasty, the palace was to be planted in the basin of the wutong in the temple, waiting for the "autumn" when the time of the day, too, the recorder will be loud. When they finished, the wutong dropped one or two leaves for autumn.

中文版：

立秋是秋季开始的节气。每年8月7日或8日太阳到达黄经135度时为立秋。《月令七十二候集解》：“七月节，立字解见春(立春)。秋，揪也，物于此而揪敛也。”立秋一般预示着炎热的夏天即将过去，秋天即将来临。立秋（节气）以后，秋后下一次雨凉快一次，因而有“一场秋雨一场寒”的说法。东汉崔 《四民月令》：“朝立秋，冷飕飕；夜立秋，热到头。” 早在周代，逢立秋那日，天子亲率三公九卿诸侯大夫到西郊迎秋，举行祭祀仪式。据记载，宋时立秋这天宫内要把栽在盆里的梧桐移入殿内，等到“立秋”时辰一到，太史官便高声报奏。奏毕，梧桐应声落下一两片叶子，以寓报秋之意。

关于立秋节气的由来：

古代分立秋为三候：“初侯凉风至”，立秋后，我国许多地区开始刮偏北风，偏南风逐渐减少。小北风给人们带来了丝丝凉意。“二侯白露降”，由于白天日照仍很强烈，夜晚的凉风刮来形成一定的昼夜温差，空气中的水蒸气清晨室外植物上凝结成了一颗颗晶莹的露珠。“三侯寒蝉鸣”，这时候的蝉，食物充足，温度适宜，在微风吹动的树枝上得意地鸣叫着，好像告诉人们炎热的夏天过去了。一候为5天，立秋15天，逐渐变凉。变凉是气候趋势，根据立秋三候的描述，或许处在气候偏冷周期时，就有这种情况。

立秋节气预示着炎热的夏季即将过去，秋天就要来临。当立秋到来时，我国很多地方仍然处在炎热的夏季之中。立秋后虽然一时暑气难消，还有"秋老虎"的余威，但天气总的趋势是天气逐渐凉爽。气温的早晚温差逐渐明显，往往是白天很热，而夜晚却比较凉爽。。当然，由于全国各地气候不同，秋季真正开始时间也不一致。

在我国封建社会时期，还有立秋迎秋之俗，每到此日，封建帝王们都亲率文武百官到城郊设坛迎秋。此时也是军士们开始勤操战技，准备作战的季节。由此可见立秋日为何种天气是如此的重要。