spring

Geographic

2022

We explain what spring is, its history and cultural significance. In addition, the processes that are carried out in it.

Spring is one of the four seasons into which the year is divided.

What is spring?

Spring (from Latinprimto, "Primer" andwill see, "Greenery") It is one of the four climatic seasons into which the year of the temperate zones of the planet, with him summer, autumn and winter.

But unlike the latter, spring is characterized by a gradual rise in the temperature, dispersion of the rains, longer and sunnier days, and flowering and greening of the plants deciduous (falling).

The greening of plants has caused that spring is culturally associated with the ideas of Renaissance, resurrection, joy and youth, against the association of winter with death. This can be seen perfectly in the artistic works and musicals that pay tribute to the station, such as the corresponding fragment ofThe four Seasons by Vivaldi.

Spring begins, astronomically, with the equinox of spring (from March 20 to 21 in the northern hemisphere and from September 21 to 23 in the south) and culminates with the solstice summer (around June 21 in the northern hemisphere and December 21 in the southern hemisphere).

Spring story

Spring was for the Greeks the celebration of the return of Persephone with Demeter.

The seasons have always had a correlate or a cultural or mythological explanation in human peoples, and spring in them has always played a celebratory, festive role. In the Greek mythologyFor example, the seasons were explained by the famous abduction of Persephone by the god of the underworld, Hades.

Persephone, tells the tradition, was the daughter of Demeter, an agricultural and land goddess, and being forcibly taken underground to the world of the dead, she was so saddened and unhappy that Hades had no choice but to come to terms : she would spend six months with him underground (corresponding to autumn and winter) and then six months back with her mother (spring and summer). Thus, the spring season was for the Greeks the celebration of the return of the daughter with Demeter, who out of sheer 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, who are commonly referred to ascelts.

It is about a group of peoples more or less similar, apographa and animist religion, that each spring solstice met to celebrate the return of fertility and the heat to the world. The Celts also had their own calendar developed from the equinoxes and solstices, to which it is suspected that the ruins of Stonehenge in England would respond.

Why happens?

The stations are due to the tilt movement of the earth's axis.

From an astronomical point of view, the seasons are due to the tilt movement of the Earth's axis, which causes an uneven distribution of the sunlight between both hemispheres, reversing every six months. It is not true that it is due to the movement of translation throughout your orbit elliptical.

Hence, the seasons are opposite between the northern and southern hemispheres, making the boreal spring (north) be the austral autumn (south), in the 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).

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