Jingzhe

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.

Origin

  • From Mandarin 惊蛰, from 惊 + 蛰 = “rouse [insects] from [their] hibernation”.

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