It's commonly believed that this festival was developed as a local commemoration of the death of a nobleman Jie Zitui during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Its bows take the form of a beak, with two large painted eyes evoking the traditional seafarers' belief that the bird's image would help sailors return safely, like the migrants that return each spring and autumn.
Birders know this and spend every spring and fall hopping from green space to green space with binoculars in hand, hoping to catch a glimpse of unfamiliar species they otherwise rarely have a chance to see the rest of the year.
“There are people who will appreciate what I have done but there are also people who will criticize me, ” he said. “Ultimately, history will have the final say.”
Besides, the season was already quite advanced, since March 13 on Antarctic shores corresponds with September 13 in the northernmost regions, which marks the beginning of the equinoctial period.
Shanghai-based Spring Airlines and Juneyao Airlines will resume services from Monday amid gradual decline in the number of daily new positive infections in the city.
And in the case of vernal pools, because so many of them have already been destroyed, a jar sitting on the shelf here might be the only record left of the biodiversity that once existed in a particular pond.