China 24 solar terms English Translation

China 24 solar terms English translation: China 24 solar terms.

I. Twenty-four solar terms:

Twenty-four solar terms are special festivals in the calendar to express the change of natural rhythm and establish "December architecture", which contains a long cultural connotation and historical accumulation and is an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. 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 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.

Second, folk customs.

Twenty-four solar terms scientifically reveal the laws of astronomical and meteorological changes, skillfully combine astronomy, agriculture, phenology and folk customs, and derive a large number of related seasonal cultures, which have become an important part of China traditional culture.

In order to express the characteristics of time series more accurately, the ancients divided solar terms into four groups: divided, arrived, opened and closed. Equinox and autumnal equinox; Solstice is the summer solstice and the winter solstice; Beginning of spring and Changsha are open, and beginning of autumn and beginning of winter are closed. Beginning of spring, Changsha, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter are collectively referred to as Li Si.

The four stands and two halves add up to eight sections, which are called "four seasons and eight sections" by the people. As a traditional agricultural society, the ancients attached great importance to the beginning of the Lunar New Year and held various folk activities during this period.

Third, historical value.

Twenty-four solar terms, the product of ancient farming civilization, occupy an extremely important position in China's traditional farming culture, which contains the long-standing cultural connotation and historical accumulation of the Chinese nation. Twenty-four solar terms are not only the time criterion promulgated by successive governments, but also the compass to guide agricultural production and to predict cold, warm, snow and rainy days in people's daily life.

The twenty-four solar terms have been of practical value to people's life and culture since ancient times. Twenty-four solar terms are the concrete division, replacement and periodic reappearance of time, among which the solar terms that mark the change of solar terms are the symbolic time of time movement and cycle, and are the important nodes of yin-yang transformation.