Contemporary Value of Twenty-four Solar Terms

The contemporary values of the 24 solar terms are as follows:

1. As a time-honored knowledge system and a colorful tradition of activities and customs, the 24 solar terms bear the spiritual and cultural connotations of respecting nature, adapting to the weather, respecting ancestors, respecting the elderly and relatives, and being kind to others, and are one of the important components of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

As an important embodiment and carrier of Chinese excellent traditional culture, the twenty-four solar terms should be highly valued and give full play to its positive role in the current social and cultural construction process.

2. Twenty-four solar terms can accurately reflect the rhythm and rhythm of nature and reflect the harmonious relationship between man and nature. This is of great practical significance to people at present.

Today, with the development of industrialization and informatization, our activity space is more and more confined to reinforced concrete urban forests, the pace of life is more and more in line with the rhythm of machine operation, the time is more and more homogeneous, and the relationship with nature is more and more alienated. Therefore, we began to ignore or even ignore the value and significance of natural factors to the development of human society.

Therefore, under the policy background of promoting ecological civilization construction in today's country, it is very necessary and realistic to re-understand and deeply explore the traditional harmonious relationship between man and nature behind the 24 solar terms. ?

3. Twenty-four solar terms are not only a time system, but also a life tradition full of rich connotations, which is an important part of people's lives, that is, a tasteful "living".

Today, although the role of the 24 solar terms in guiding agricultural production and regulating people's time and life rhythm is decreasing and disappearing, no matter how the times change, the logic of "living" will never change. In fact, in the process of the emergence, development and historical evolution of the 24 solar terms, its connotation has been changing and developing with the development of the social situation.