Section 24, 12, 14 gas tables

The twenty-four solar terms are beginning of spring, Rain, Surprise, Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Long Summer, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, Millennium, Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.

Twenty-four solar terms refer to the special festivals in the trunk and branch calendars that express seasons, phenology, climate change and establish "December construction", which were used to guide farming in the Han Dynasty. Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, and are the knowledge system formed by ancient ancestors following the farming season and understanding the changing laws of seasons, climate and phenology in a year by observing the movement of celestial bodies.

Twenty-four solar terms divide the sun's annual trajectory into 24 equal parts, each of which is a solar term, starting from the beginning of spring and ending in the great cold, reflecting the influence of the sun on the earth.

The significance of the twenty-four solar terms

Solar terms are of far-reaching significance to China people, and the climate change it marks is still the continuation of the long-term farming relationship between China people and nature, in which the inheritance is profound and profound. The twenty-four solar terms were formulated by ancient people according to the change of the position of the earth on the ecliptic. In fact, they are twenty-four seasons, two each month.

We often regard solar terms as a word now, but in ancient times, China people used them separately, and every month had a solar term and a breath. In ancient China, where there was no weather forecast, people used solar terms to determine the exact time when cold came and summer went, and the regularity of natural phenomena such as rainfall and snowfall.