Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Among the 24 solar terms, there are both solar terms and traditional festivals.

Among the 24 solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Solstice are both solar terms and traditional festivals.

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Among the 24 solar terms, there are both solar terms and traditional festivals.

Among the 24 solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Solstice are both solar terms and traditional festivals.

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Among the 24 solar terms, there are both 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. Were there humans in ancient times? Eight knots? The custom of worshipping God and ancestors. The winter solstice is considered as a big holiday in winter and is very popular among people. Is the winter solstice as big as a year? So the ancients called winter the solstice? By age? Or? Small year.

24 solar terms:

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 24 solar terms are based on 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? Equal to 1, each equal to 1 is a solar term, which begins in the beginning of spring and ends in 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.

Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, and farming production is closely related to the rhythm of nature. It is a knowledge system formed by ancient ancestors by observing the movement of celestial bodies and understanding the changing laws of time (season), climate and phenology in a year. Each solar term represents different changes in time, climate and phenology. 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. It not only plays a guiding role in agricultural production, but also affects the food, clothing, housing and transportation of ancient people, and even cultural concepts.

After historical development, the lunar calendar absorbed the solar terms of the dry calendar as a supplement to the calendar, and adjusted it to conform to the tropic year by leap method, forming a combined calendar of yin and yang, and the 24 solar terms became an important part of the lunar calendar. In the field of international meteorology, the 24 solar terms are considered as the fifth invention of China. 2016165438+1October 30th, 24 solar terms were officially listed in UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.