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What are solar terms and traditional festivals?
Among the 24 solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Solstice are both solar terms and traditional festivals. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.
Winter solstice, also known as winter festival, Asian New Year Festival and Long Day Festival, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China. In ancient times, there was a custom of "eight festivals" to worship ancestors. Winter solstice is regarded as a big holiday in winter. There is a folk saying that winter solstice is as big as a year, so the ancients called it "sub-year" or "off-year".
Twenty-four solar terms are special festivals in the elephant trunk calendar that express the change of natural rhythm and establish December. At first, it was based on the changing stars. The Big Dipper rotates in a cycle, and bucket handle rotates around the east, south, west and north, which is called one year old. Each rotation cycle begins in beginning of spring and ends in severe cold. The current twenty-four solar terms are formulated according to the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that is, the sun's trajectory in one year is divided into 24 equal parts, each 15 is 1 equal part, and each 1 equal part is a solar term, starting from beginning of spring and ending from the great cold. Twenty-four solar terms are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, which embodies the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization.
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