Young people - your duty is to level the ground, not anxious time.

Heidegger once quoted H?lderlin's famous words: "Life is full of toil, but also to dwell poetically on the land", Mr. Yu Shicun adhere to the common sense:

Young people,

your duty is to level the ground,

not anxious about the time.

You do what you do in March and April,

and have your answers in August and September.

- The Book of Time

Yu Shicun on the 24 Seasons of Spring

- Thunder in the Sky Nurtures Everything -

Today (February 4) is the first day of Spring, the beginning of the 24 Seasons. Since then, the east wind is warm, the spring thunder, stinging insects wake up, the glacier melts, migratory fish swimming, a thriving scene. Twenty-four seasons, measured in half a month, each may be a reminder of the time, when the time should be, in time to find the "way of nature", so that the "law of nature".

This is exactly what Mr. Yu Shicun's book, The Book of Time, mentions, taking the twenty-four solar terms as a starting point, describing in detail the attributes and characteristics of the twenty-four solar terms, and interpreting the mission and the way of life that time has given us!

Throughout the years, we have kept our feet on the ground, and look forward to a thick and thin growth.

The world is unpredictable, not necessarily successful, but must be on the road.

-- The Book of Hours

What year is this?

- I want to ride the wind to the past, but I'm afraid of the agora -

Why do we always feel like our days are going by in a blur? Why is our life so hectic when there are so many timekeeping devices available? Perhaps this passage from the preface to The Book of Hours can shed a light. ?

? "The negative effects brought about by our intellectual history have not been effectively cleaned up so far, and we know a lot of phenomena, customs, and knowledge that we do not know what they are, and we know what they are but not what they are. Festivals, the most widely known phenomenon of life and civilization in traditional China, are not only used by the public on a daily basis without knowing it, but also by talented scholars who rarely know its functional significance. Today's people in the 0 and 1 composition of the mobile Internet has been to and difficult to return to, viewing and ignorance; few people to go deep into the time and space composition of the coordinates to recognize their own position, and even fewer people to analyze the time and space a variety of tangential significance."

What The Book of Time unpacks is the Chinese philosophy of time. As Yu Shicun writes, "In twenty-four dimensions of time, each one makes demands on the life within it."

Cold rain, warm hibernation, these ancient proverbs, seem to have been forgotten. It is a great irony and sadness that we have lost the land and our children are far from nature. And the Chinese traditional twenty-four seasons is not only the wisdom of the ancients, but also a kind of respect for the moon season and the seasons, and the treasure and sense of time.

"It can be said that the source of China's long-standing spiritual temperament is precisely the seasons in time." There is always something that should not be forgotten, and there is always something that has always been with us.

The Book of Time is a dialog between modernity and history, an intimacy between mankind and nature, a mingling of time and space, and a cognizance of self and the world.

Everything in heaven and earth, the Tao is natural. Everything flows, everything never changes.

When we close this book of time about festivals, we will see the words written by Yu Shicun on the back cover:

Like a farmer once, to feel the cyclic rotation of time and life; ?

Like a poet, to appreciate the rose of time, to harvest the grain of time; ?

Young man, your duty is to level the ground, not to be anxious about time. ?

What you do in March and April has its answer in August and September. ?

Wonderful book excerpt

The spring season is, a wait for the east wind thawing, the second wait for the stinging insects began to vibrate, the third wait for fish and ascend to the negative ice. Said the east wind to send warmth, the earth began to thaw; five days after the spring, hibernating insects slowly awakened in the hole, but also hibernating animals began to move; after five days, the river ice began to melt, the fish began to swim on the water surface, at this time there is not completely melted on the water surface of the broken pieces of ice, such as the fish negative general floating in the water surface. ?

In the north, the characteristics of this festival are not obvious, and even often attacked by the "spring cold". However, it is a sign of the gradual departure of the cold and the slow arrival of spring, which has already settled in people's hearts and sent out spring buds. The first of these is the "rain", which is a symbol of spring.

Wei Shu - Guangling Wang Yu biography: "This is the beginning of the summer, and stay until after the fall." Du Fu's poem: "I'm always worried that they are all scorpions. Moreover, there will be more flies in the fall." Pi Rixiu's poem: "The mountain is thin and more cultivated with osmanthus in the fall, while the stream is clear and I count the fish in the evening." Luo Yin's poem: "Frost presses down the Chulian lotus in the fall, and rain pushes the barbarians to deal with wine late at night." ? -- "Autumn"

Bai Lu's three weather are related to the birds, the spring breeze at the time of the northern flight of the basilisks, swallows at this time to return, and many birds feel the heaven and earth depression of the air, store food for the winter. Careful people found that all kinds of birds at this time also began to care for the growth of their feathers to protect against the cold. Baozhao, a poet of the Southern Dynasty, said: "Xuanwu hides the wood in the shade, and the birds are still shy. Laboring farmers and ze are not only week, but also rested in the service of the car." ? -- "White Dew"

"Thunder moves in the world, and things with no delusion. When the thunder moves, everything develops itself with it, does not act presumptuously, prepares itself, and becomes itself and things in accordance with heavenly times and heavenly ways.

Spring for us, there is a difficult to describe the emotions, as the lyrics of the "Voice of Spring": "The birds sing sweetly, the hills and valleys shine brightly, and the valley sound echoes. Ah, spring is with us in its charming garments, we bask in the bright sunshine and forget our fears and sorrows."

On this sunny day, we run, laugh and play. The vibrant spring is coming, so pack up and go again!