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9月23日

農歷八月廿八

中文版“秋分”

秋分已至，陽光正均勻地投射在赤道上，讓晝夜等分，春秋勻停。北半球自此晝漸短、夜漸長，晝夜溫差逐漸增大，迎來秋季的后半場。

Autumn equinox has arrived. The sunlight is evenly spread on the equator, and divides day and night, cold and heat into halves. In the Northern Hemisphere, from this day on, the day is getting shorter and the night is getting longer, and diurnal temperature variation increases. People embrace the second half of autumn.

English Version“Autumn equinox”

“秋分客尚在，竹露夕微微。”《晚晴》唐·杜甫

古人在這一天祭月、吃秋菜、送秋牛，今天我們則將秋分日設為“農民豐收日”，以慶春華秋實。飽滿的作物迎風搖曳，兌現春天里許下的承諾。

On this day, the ancients usually worship the moon, eat vegetables of autumn and send pictures of cattle to their friends. Yet nowadays, China specially names it as Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival in order to celebrate the joy of harvest and greetings of season. The plump crops sway with the wind in the fields, fulfilling the promise of spring.

【童聲】

“風吹一片葉，萬物已驚秋。”

—— 《早秋客舍》唐·杜牧