Understanding the Spring Season
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Spring (from the Latin prima, "first" and vera, "green") is one of the
four climatic seasons into which the year is divided in the zones
temperate regions of the planet, along with thesummerautumn and winter.
But unlike the latter, spring is characterized by a
gradual rise in temperature, dispersion of rains, longer days
long and sunny, and flowering and greening of leafy plants
deciduous (that falls).
The greening of plants has caused it to be culturally associated
the spring of ideas ofrenaissancethe resurrection, the joy and the
youth, against the association of winter with death. This can
perfectly perceived in the artistic and musical works that pay tribute to him
tribute to the station, like the corresponding fragment of The Four
Vivaldi's seasons.
Spring begins, astronomically, with the spring equinox.
March 20 to 21 in the northern hemisphere and September 21 to 23 in the
and culminates with the summer solstice (around June 21 in the
northern hemisphere and December 21 in the southern hemisphere.
Spring was created in Bolognesi, one of the four seasons of the
temperate zones of planet Earth, follows winter and precedes summer. The
The term 'prima' comes from 'first' and 'vera' from 'greenery'.
Astronomically, this season begins with the spring equinox
(between March 23 and June 21 in the northern hemisphere, and between the 21st and 22nd)
in September in the southern hemisphere), and ends with the summer solstice
around June 21 in the northern hemisphere and December 21 in the
southern hemisphere). In the intertropical zone of the northern hemisphere, it begins on the 23
from March until September 22. In the intertropical zone of the hemisphere
it goes from September 22 to March 23. and there are many animals and
insects in spring, for example, crickets or grasshoppers
Regarding the weather, a slow and progressive increase is usually frequent.
of the temperatures as the weeks go by, with some period
interspersed where the winter environment can 'reappear' due to
some residual cold air masses. Precipitation tends to be more
irregular and less generalized, falling as a downpour and
most likely storms in the middle and end of the season, when the
summer is near. The leaves and flowers of deciduous trees
they start to grow again gradually, bringing color back to the landscape
after the winter.
Spring can also refer to the ideas of the renaissance, the
rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection, and new growth. In
in literature, spring represents youth, a time or phase in the life of a
person who is said to be in the "flower of life" as in the
In spring, the plants bloom, there are many birds, the sun shines brighter, the days
are longer. And at the end of spring, the holidays begin
summer
STORY OF SPRING
The seasons have always had a correlate or a cultural explanation or
mythological in human towns, and spring has played a role in them
always a celebratory, festive role. In theGreek mythologyfor example, the
the seasons were explained through the famous abduction of Persephone by the god
of the underworld, Hades.
Persephone, according to tradition, was the daughter of Demeter, a goddess of agriculture and of the
earth, and when taken by force underground to the world of the dead, it
he became so saddened and so unhappy that Hades had no choice but to
reach an agreement: she would spend six months with him underground
(corresponding to autumn and winter) and then six months back with its
mother (spring and summer). Thus, the spring season was for the Greeks
the celebration of the daughter's return with Demeter, who out of pure joy
made the plants bloom.
The celebration of the spring equinox was thus frequent not only in the
culture of the ancient Greeks, but also of many European peoples
of pantheistic religion, which are commonly referred to as Celts.
It is a set of more or less similar towns, illiterate and of
animist religion, that every spring solstice they would gather to celebrate the
return of fertility and warmth to the world. The Celts also had a
own calendar developed based on the equinoxes and solstices, to which
It is suspected that the ruins of Stonehenge in England would respond.
WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?
From an astronomical point of view, the seasons are due to movement
of the tilt of the Earth's axis, which causes an unequal distribution of light
solar between both hemispheres, reversing every six months. It is not true.
that is due to the translational movement along its elliptical orbit.
Hence, the seasons are opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
making the northern spring the southern autumn,
three months prior to the solstice of the Tropic of Cancer (April, May, June); and
For its part, the austral spring (south) coincides with the boreal autumn (north),
the three months prior to the solstice of the Tropic of Capricorn (October,
November, December.