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Recite the 24 Solar Terms Children's Songs

The recitation of the 24 solar terms is as follows:

Spring rain startles the spring, summer is full of mango, summer is connected with heat, autumn is in the dew autumn frost, winter snow snow winter small big cold. The first half of the year is six twenty-one, the second half of the year to eight twenty-three, the date of the two sections of the month, up to one or two days.

Expanded:

Setsubun, is the dry calendar in the natural rhythms of the changes and the establishment of the "December build" of a particular season. The 24 solar terms are: spring, rain, hibernation, spring equinox, ching-ming, grain rain, summer, small fullness, mango seeding, summer solstice, small summer heat, great summer heat, autumn, summer heat, white dew, fall equinox, cold dew, frost, winter, snow, snow, winter solstice, small cold, big cold.

The twenty-four solar terms are linked to the dry branches and the eight trigrams, and have a long historical origin. In the course of history the 24 solar terms were included in the lunar calendar and became an important part of the lunar calendar.

The twenty-four solar terms are the products of the ancient farming civilization, which occupies an extremely important position in China's traditional farming society, and farming production is closely related to the rhythms of nature, which is a knowledge system formed by the ancient forefathers in response to the farming season, through the observation of celestial operation, cognition of the changing patterns of time, climate, and physical conditions in a year.

It scientifically reveals the laws of astronomical and meteorological changes, realizes a clever combination of astronomy, agriculture, physical climate and folklore, and derives a large number of yearly seasonal cultures related to it. In November 2016, the 24 Solar Terms were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The 24 Solar Terms scientifically reveal the laws of astronomical and meteorological changes, which skillfully combine astronomy, natural rhythms and folklore, giving rise to a large number of related seasonal cultures, and becoming an important part of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

In order to more accurately express the characteristics of the seasonal order, the ancients divided the festivals into four groups, namely, the equinoxes, arrivals, beginnings, and endings, according to the climate and physical conditions. The four groups are the spring equinox and the fall equinox, known as the "two equinoxes"; the summer solstice and the winter solstice, known as the "two solstices";

Kai is the beginning of spring and summer, and the closure of the autumn and winter. Spring, summer, fall, winter, collectively known as the "four", these add up to **** for the "eight sections". Folk called "four times eight sections" or "eight sections of the year". In the long agrarian society, the twenty-four seasons have played an important role in guiding agricultural activities, and have rich cultural connotations.