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The meaning of the twenty-four solar terms

The significance of the twenty-four solar terms is: to provide people with an important reference for understanding nature and adapting to nature; to achieve more fruitful results in artistic creativity and international expression; to create cultural wealth that originates from China and goes to the world.

1. Provide people with an important reference for understanding nature and adapting to nature. Among the 24 solar term names, there are "Si Li" indicating seasonal changes, "Two to Two Points" indicating the pole and midpoint of the sun's movement, and "Three Points" indicating the temperature change curve.

"Summer and two colds" represent natural phenological phenomena and crop maturity levels of "hing, clear, full and awn".

2. The achievements of artistic creativity and international expression are becoming more and more abundant. Solar term culture, film and television cultural works are also springing up in endlessly.

These film and television works delve into the cultural connotation of solar terms in the form of both elegant and popular appreciation, and provide the audience with one after another enjoyable and interesting cultural feast, allowing modern people to experience the beauty of the ancient solar term culture immersively.

3. Cultural wealth originating from China and reaching the world. The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics ingeniously used 24 solar terms for countdown. This short video selects a representative image from each solar term, and displays it in the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven,

Against the backdrop of China's magnificent mountains, rivers and cultural landscapes, there are beautiful or dynamic Winter Olympics and ice and snow scenes, which appear in sequence according to the solar terms. They quote a popular ancient poem to explain, perfectly combining Chinese tradition and modern aesthetics, showing the Chinese

The unique charm of culture.

Throughout human history, the relationship between man and nature has been a basic proposition of human society.

The twenty-four solar terms indicate the principle that human beings should be in harmony with nature and the way of heaven, embody the concept of respecting nature, complying with laws and sustainable development, and reveal the code of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, which can promote the construction of a perfect world for life on earth.

The same body provides compliance and is the cultural wealth shared by mankind.