Equinoxes and Solstices · World Questions

Which country's weather agency publishes a different "day without shadows" for every city each year — the day a vertical object's noon shadow disappears beneath it?

Where you live, how do people mark the day of an equinox or solstice?

One country's traditional calendar pins the twelve zodiac signs to the fixed stars rather than to the equinox point. Precession of Earth's axis has pushed a festival that once marked a solstice more than three weeks later over the past thousand-plus years. Which country is it?

Which of these experiences from the article matches your own?

One country's national holidays number exactly seven, and not one of them is dated by the sun's position. Its only attempt at chasing the seasons through law — daylight saving time — has since been abolished, and it sits in the southern hemisphere, where the December solstice opens summer rather than winter. Which country is this?

Which of these solstice- or equinox-linked customs have you actually done yourself?

On the day of an equinox or solstice, what do you usually do?

An official release describes one festival as marking the sun's turn toward the northern hemisphere — but the real astronomical turning point, the December solstice, actually happens more than three weeks earlier. The gap comes from a calendar that pins the zodiac to the fixed stars rather than the equinox point. Which country is this?

Around an equinox, solstice, or solar term, which of these have you actually done?

In which country was the only time its law ever chased the seasons a daylight-saving rule that has since been abolished?

Around a change of season, which of these do you actually do?

Which country's meteorological agency publishes an annual "Day Without Shadows," since the equator runs through it and the year splits into rainy and dry seasons rather than four?

In which of these places is exactly one statutory holiday dated by a solar term, with the actual days off announced separately by the government every year?

Which of these sun-timed seasonal customs have you or your family actually practiced?

Which of these season-related customs have you or your family actually done?

Which country's meteorological, climatological and geophysical agency publishes a city-by-city day without shadows every year, when a noon shadow disappears?

Which of these solstice- or equinox-linked customs have you actually taken part in?

Which country never takes a holiday for an equinox or solstice, yet moves its clocks twice a year by statute, with the date spelled out as literally as "the second Sunday of March"?

In this country's holiday regulations, only one of the seven public holidays is dated by a solar term, and the winter solstice is not a day off at all. Which country?

Around the equinoxes or solstice where you live, what do you usually do?

These dates are set by the sun reaching a fixed point, and each carries its own custom. Which of these have you or your family actually done?

In which country do the spring and autumn equinox holidays appear in law without a month or day — just "the equinox day" — with the exact date computed by a national observatory and only fixed in an official gazette the previous February?

Which of these season-turn customs have you actually done?

In one country, the only public holiday dated by a solar term is described in the statute as falling 'on the day of Qingming itself,' even though Qingming is actually a point at 15 degrees of ecliptic longitude, not a lunar date; which days off actually apply is only fixed by a separate notice issued each year. Which country is this?

When a day like an equinox or solstice comes around — one whose date drifts because it's fixed by the sun rather than a calendar — what do you usually do?

In which country does the same red-bean rice cake get offered to ancestors under one name in spring and a different name in autumn?

Which country's traditional festival once marked the sun's turn toward the northern hemisphere, but now falls more than three weeks after the actual solstice?

On the day of an equinox or solstice, what does it usually look like where you live?