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【附绘本推荐+重点词音频】春分至，蛋儿俏——暨词汇、句子与家庭语言教育（十三）

Aloha成长英语 · 公众号 · 英语 · 2017-03-22 00:50

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这是第十三篇家庭语言教育，围绕：春分，立蛋，四季（附两本绘本推荐）展开，文末附上本人读的重点词音频。

在购物季，聊聊"血拼"那些事儿（一）（不只是语言！收藏！）一文中，小编引用了全球著名的scholastic（学乐）的研究报告 10 Research-Tested ways to Build Children’s Vocabulary

（《10种基于研究的增加孩子词汇量的方式》），报告结果中有两点与语言（中英文）启蒙与教育相关，一是“给孩子读书”，二是“通过高质量的谈话提升孩子词汇量和句子量”。

经常与孩子高质量地聊天（根据兴趣、年龄）与恰当可理解的解释（这个就看家长的内功啦），可以激发孩子思考、提问，营造良好的家庭语言环境，中文，英文，方言的输入均是如此。

因为竖蛋这一民间习俗，我们可以和孩子边玩“竖蛋”游戏，边聊“春分”，学习科学，区分习俗与真相 truth（不是春分才能立蛋这一事实）。

【一】春分

the vernal equinox / the spring equinox

The vernal equinox marks the start of spring. （春分标志着春天的正式到来。）

（vernal meaning "of or pertaining to spring," equinox meaning "equal night." ）

The vernal equinox is the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.（春分是北半球春天的第一天）

Spring equinox is a time for fertility 繁殖 and sowing seeds播种.

春分有“昼夜平分”之意，太阳直射赤道 (equator)，在古时又称"日中"，“日夜分”，“仲春之月”。此时，春暖花开，杨柳青青，莺飞草长，桃红李白迎春黄，宜农作田间管理；观光出游等。

The equinoxes, which mark the beginning of spring and autumn, have long held a special importance in human society. Particularly the vernal equinox春分, which marks the first day of spring and the end of winter, the beginning of the season in which daylight again outlasts darkness and life springs anew 万物新生 ( anew adv. if sb does sth. anew, the do it again forom the beginning or do it in a different way). Flowers blossom百花盛开, trees shoot out new leaves and branches树木抽枝发芽, and animals give birth (or their eggs hatch) 万物复苏（或动物们破壳而出）. These tangible (that can be clearly seen to exist) signs of the world’s rebirth复苏were of paramount importance to agricultural societies（万物复苏的明显迹象对于农业社会而言至为重要）, and they naturally developed elaborate fertility rites to celebrate 庆祝 the occasion.

（elaborate: usually before noun, very complicated and detailed; carefully prepared and organized 复杂的，详尽的，精心制作的 fertility rite 祈求丰收的仪式 fertility: the state of being fertile富饶丰产 fertile 肥沃的富饶的 rite: a ceremony performed by a particular group of people often for religious purposes 仪式，典礼 ritual: a series of actions that are always performed in the same way, especially as part of a religious ceremony 程序仪规礼节）

对于小班的孩子，可以读立体绘本《我们的太空》

【二】立蛋

egg balancing

Question: Can you really balance an egg on its end during the vernal equinox?

片段一：

By Heather Janssen, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
March 23, 2016, 7:33:23 AM EDT

"The origins of this myth are attributed to stories that the ancient Chinese would create displays of eggs standing on end during the first day of spring," John Millis, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Anderson University stated in an about.com article.

However, this myth is only partly true. It is possible to balance an egg on its end, but it has nothing do to with the vernal equinox. In fact, it can be performed on any day of the year. 与春分无关

To stand the egg on its end, try using a rough surface or an egg that has a bumpy (not even 不平的) end for better balance.

Millie added, "the ancient Chinese celebrated the first day of spring about six weeks earlier than the equinox古代中国人提早六周庆祝春分, meaning that the recreation of this event was not even on the correct day."

The equinox is when the poles point neither toward or away from the sun.

Though standing an egg on its end can be easily disproved 证明……是错误的, there are many interesting facts about the vernal equinox关于春分的有趣事实如下:

It is true that on the equinox, the sun rises exactly due east and sets exactly due west. This is true no matter the location on Earth, Slooh Astronomer Bob Berman said.

A second known fact is that the first day of spring has roughly has the same length of day and night around the world, with typically five to seven more minutes of daylight(白天比黑夜多5-7分钟), according to Berman.
"The time of equal day and night actually happens about four or five days earlier than the equinox昼夜均分事实上发生在春分之前的四五天," Berman said. Lastly, during vernal equinox, the sun's movement across the sky occurs in a straight line as opposed to a curved shape.

(http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/can-you-really-stand-egg-on-end-vernal-equinox-spring-begins/56110930 )

片段二：
The Chinese are often cited as having originated the practice of standing eggs on end during the equinox. Just as the equinox symbolically restores balance to the world by signalling its rebirth after a season of darkness, the equinox literally balances the day by dividing it into equal portions of darkness and light. If the symbol of fertility, eggs, could be balanced on end during a day equally divided between day and night, this was a sign that all nature was in harmony.
Nonetheless, the vernal equinox brings no special egg-balancing properties with it. Standing an egg on its end is something just about anyone can do any day of the year; the feat simply takes the right egg and a little trial and practice.

春分立蛋的原理之一
蛋壳上有许多高0.03毫米左右的突起,三个突起可构成一个三角形的平面,如果使鸡蛋的重心线通过这个三角形,就可以实现“竖蛋”了。

如今竖蛋已是世界游戏啦
Egg balancing, most popular at the spring equinox in March but said to be possible in both seasons, has attracted publicity in recent years.

蛋与新生命

Thus eggs — one of the most ubiquitous (普遍的) symbols of fertility and birth — have long been associated with the beginning of spring, and hence with the equinox.

In many cultures and society, the egg is considered the perfect magical symbol. It is, after all, representative of new life - in fact, it is the life cycle personified.

It’s important to consider that eggs feature prominently in folklore and legend all year long.

A Chinese folk tale 中国民间故事 tells of the story of the formation of the universe. Like so many things, it began as an egg. A deity named Pan Gu 盘古 formed inside the egg, and then in his efforts to get out, cracked it into two halves. The upper portion became the sky and cosmos, and the lower half became the earth and sea. As Pan Gu grew bigger and more powerful, the gap between earth and sky increased, and soon they were separated forever.

【三】 四季

Four distinct seasons四季分明. Spring, summer, autumn and winter.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

说到四季，前两天，我和Alice还在看 I am a Bunny

最后一页是兔子蜷缩 (curl up) 在树洞里，梦想着春的到来（原句: I curl up in my hollow tree and dream about spring.）。