China food solar terms

The sentence in the solar term song is: I woke up easily in this spring morning, and birds were singing everywhere.

Solar term song is a song style written in accordance with solar terms in ancient China. Twenty-four solar terms are not only a time system, but also a life folk custom system with rich connotations, and a large number of poems and songs have been produced around the twenty-four solar terms. In order to facilitate memory, people have compiled 24 solar terms songs.

Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, and they are the knowledge system formed by ancient ancestors following the farming season, observing the movement of celestial bodies and understanding the changing law of natural rhythm. The twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated according to the changes of stars. The Big Dipper rotates in a circle and bucket handle rotates clockwise, which is called one of the "years".

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. A year is divided into four seasons, three months in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and two solar terms in each month. Each solar term has its own unique meaning.

Twenty-four solar terms accurately reflect the change of natural rhythm and play an extremely important role in people's daily life. It is not only a seasonal system that guides agricultural production, but also a folk system that contains rich folk customs. In the field of international meteorology, the 24 solar terms are known as "the fifth invention of China".

Cultural connotation

Twenty-four solar terms are specific festivals in the calendar that indicate the change of natural rhythm. Four years old, three months in spring, summer, autumn and winter, two solar terms each month, each solar term has its own unique meaning. Twenty-four solar terms accurately reflect the change of natural rhythm and play an important role in people's daily life.

The twenty-four solar terms express the unique concept of time between human beings and the natural universe, and contain the long-standing cultural connotation and historical accumulation of the Chinese nation. Agricultural irrigation in ancient China depended on precipitation in the sky and rivers on the ground, and farming was mainly concentrated in areas with abundant precipitation and developed river networks. Farmers in these areas often engage in agricultural production according to solar terms.