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Spring Morning in the Han Palace

Spring Morning in the Han Palace (汉宫春晓图) is a long handscroll painting by Ming dynasty painter Qiu Ying, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Oct 3, 2026

Spring of the Blade (一瓯春)

Spring of the Blade (一瓯春, Yi Ou Chun) is a 2026 Chinese historical revenge drama, 30 episodes, directed by Pan Anzi, starring Xu Kai and Zhou Ye, adapted from You Sijie's Jinjiang novel, set in Southern Song Qiantang, airing on iQiyi and Youku.

Spring of Youth (사계의 봄) (TV series)

Spring of Youth (사계의 봄, Sagyeui Bom; Spring of the Four Seasons) is a 2025 SBS Korean youth music romance drama, 10 episodes, May 6 to July 2, 2025, starring Ha Yoo-joon, Park Ji-hu, and N.Flying's Lee Seung-hyub, about an ousted K-pop band star forming a college band, noted for its record-low ratings.

Spring Outing

Spring Outing (Youchun Tu, 游春图) is a Chinese handscroll attributed to the Sui dynasty painter Zhan Ziqian, held in Beijing's Palace Museum and regarded as the earliest surviving Chinese landscape painting scroll.

Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo

Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo (虢国夫人游春图) is a Song dynasty silk handscroll painting attributed to Tang painter Zhang Xuan, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.

Spring peeper

Spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer, formerly Hyla crucifer), a small eastern North American chorus frog with a dark X on its back, high-pitched spring peeping call, glycerol-based freeze tolerance, and IUCN Least Concern status.

Spring River in the Flower Moon Night

Spring River in the Flower Moon Night (春江花月夜) is a 36-line Tang poem by Zhang Ruoxu describing a moonlit river, from scenery to separated lovers' longing.

Spring roll

Spring roll (春卷, chunjuan; Japanese harumaki, Vietnamese nem/goi cuon): a Chinese rolled food of thin wheat wrapper around vegetable, meat, or sweet filling, usually deep fried, eaten at lichun and New Year, with fresh rice-paper variants in Vietnam.

Spring Scream

Spring Scream (春天吶喊, Chun-na) was Taiwan's pioneering independent music festival, founded in Kenting in 1995 by Americans Jimi Moe and Wade Davis; it grew to 270 bands, required original songs only, and ended in 2019-2020, succeeded by the Taiwan Music Festival.

Spring Silkworms

Spring Silkworms (春蚕) is a 1932 short story by Mao Dun, which follows a farmer's family facing ruin after their record silk cocoon harvest is rejected.

Spring Snow (春の雪)

Spring Snow (春の雪, Haru no Yuki) is Yukio Mishima's 1969 novel, first volume of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy: the doomed 1912 Tokyo love of aristocrats Kiyoaki and Satoko, built on dream, reincarnation, and Yogācāra Buddhism.

Spring Stampede (1994)

Spring Stampede 1994, WCW's inaugural Spring Stampede pay-per-view, held April 17, 1994 at the Rosemont Horizon near Chicago; 12,200 fans; Flair vs. Steamboat double-pin main event, Sting wins the International title.

Spring steel

Spring steel is a high-carbon or alloy steel heat treated to a high elastic limit, so it bends and returns to its original shape without permanent deformation.

Spring tide

A spring tide is the larger-than-average tide at new and full moon, when Earth, Moon, and Sun align and tidal forces add, producing higher highs and lower lows.

Spring training

Spring training: MLB's preseason in Florida (Grapefruit League) and Arizona (Cactus League), 15 teams each; began 1886 in Hot Springs, Arkansas; exhibition games whose stats never count officially.

Oct 21, 2026

Spring Valley, Nevada

Spring Valley, Nevada: an unincorporated Clark County town and census-designated place in the western Las Vegas Valley, west of the Strip. Population 215,597 (2020); home of the Spring Mountain Road Chinatown district.

Spring View

Spring View (春望) is a five-character regulated verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 757 in rebel-occupied Chang'an and considered his most famous poem.

Oct 21, 2026

Spring viraemia of carp

Spring viraemia of carp (SVC), also spring viremia of carp, is a WOAH-listed rhabdoviral disease of cyprinids, mainly common and koi carp, causing haemorrhage, dropsy, and 1–70% mortality at 11–17°C water temperatures.

SPring-8

SPring-8, formally the Large-Scale Synchrotron Radiation Facility, is a synchrotron in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, producing intense X-rays with 8 GeV electrons; open since 1997, it serves over 200,000 users.

Spring-heeled Jack

Spring-heeled Jack, also Springheel Jack, a Victorian English urban legend of a leaping, blue-flame-breathing night assailant first reported around London in 1837–38, named by The Times, reported across Britain until 1904, and later a penny dreadful character.

Spring-loaded inverted pendulum

The spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) is a reduced-order model of running, hopping, and trotting in which a point mass rides on a massless spring leg, formalized by R. Blickhan in 1989.

Spring, Spring

Spring, Spring (봄봄) is a short story by the Korean writer Kim Yu-jeong, published in 1935, about a son-in-law who works unpaid for over three years while his prospective father-in-law delays the wedding.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄) is Kim Ki-duk's 2003 South Korean-German Buddhist drama following a monk's life in five seasonal chapters, shot at Jusanji Pond, a festival award winner with an 85 Metascore.

Spring, Texas

Spring, Texas is an unincorporated census-designated place in north Harris County, about 20 miles north of Houston on I-45. Founded as a farming settlement and 1871 railroad town, it had 62,559 residents in 2020 and centers on the Old Town Spring shopping district.

Springbok

Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis), a gazelle-like antelope of southern Africa's arid plains and South Africa's national animal; only living Antidorcas species, 33–46 kg, known for pronking leaps up to 3.5 m and surviving without drinking water.

Springbrook National Park

Springbrook National Park: 6,558 ha Queensland park in the Gold Coast hinterland, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, with four sections, waterfalls, glow-worms, and the Natural Bridge arch.

Springer Nature

Springer Nature is a research, health and education publisher formed in May 2015 by merging Springer Science+Business Media with Macmillan brands including Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan; listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2024, it published 539,000 primary research articles in 2025, over 53% open access, with FY 2025 revenue of €1,926.4m.