Lichun, recommend a set of books for children "This is the twenty-four solar terms

Lichun is one of the twenty-four solar terms. Li, that means the beginning, spring, on behalf of the warmth, after the spring, the cold gradually far away, seven nine rivers open, eight nine swallows come, the spring is equivalent to play the prelude to spring, heralding the vibrant, all things recovered spring formally come to us.

I remember when I was a child, spring to eat spring pancakes, thin and soft pastry rolled on a variety of vegetables, bite, savory moderate, not a lot of flavor. And the spring cake must be eaten from the beginning to the end, meaning that there is a beginning and an end, to get a good mouth.

After growing up and leaving home, the calendar only looks at the solar calendar, rarely remember when the spring, and no longer have a mother for me to do a good spring cake. Until I became a mother, until one day I listened to the child reciting a poem:

Spring rain startled the spring clear valley day, summer full of mango summer summer connected,

Autumn in the fall of dew autumn frost fall, winter snow snow winter small cold.

I suddenly came to the realization that every generation is tasked with the mission of cultural inheritance. When we take our children to party on Halloween, make a wish on Christmas, and eat turkey on Thanksgiving, it is more important for us to tell our children that in addition to the Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival, there are also the twenty-four seasons, which are a more prominent manifestation of the wisdom of the Chinese people.

Proudly, the twenty-four solar terms were listed on November 30, 2016, as part of the World Intangible Heritage. After searching all the major book websites, I chose this well-reviewed picture book for my child: This is the 24 Solar Terms.

This set of books has 4 books, divided into spring, summer, fall and winter, each containing 6 solar terms. Distinguished from the general serious science books, this set of books to a six-year-old girl teeth as the lead, to tell a story, describing the teeth teeth to go to the Shandong countryside grandfather's home, through a child's perspective, describes with the festival related to astronomy, meteorology, weather, weather conditions, farming, folk activities, etc., the content of the colorful, set of knowledge and fun as a whole.

For example, when autumn arrives, Tooth draws an autumn schedule to record the changes in the ripening of melons and fruits. As soon as she wakes up every day, she runs under the grapevine to see if the green grapes have grown; then she runs under the peach tree to see if the peaches have turned red; and then she runs to the vegetable garden to see if the sunflowers have gone to seed.

At the beginning of the autumn, Toa, like the girls in the village, set up a table in the garden, picked fresh and ripe melons and fruits, and arranged them neatly on the table; her grandmother also helped her pick a big sunflower, and then lit candles on the table, and then she could look up at the starry sky, and prayed to the Weaving Maiden in the sky for wisdom and skillful craftsmanship. Here, the author, in addition to introducing the characteristics of autumn as a festival, but also expanded what is called the autumn tiger, told the story of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting, introduced the origin of the Tanabata Festival.

I can't help but recall that when I was a child, every year on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, I would run to the yard under the cucumber frame, and listen reverently to the cry from the weaving maiden in the sky. Because my mother not only told me the story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, but also told me mysteriously that every year on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, under the cucumber rack, put your ear close to the vine leaves of the cucumber, then you can hear the whispers of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden in the sky, and you can hear the Weaving Maiden's cries. But only children who don't lie can hear it.

I believe that every flinty ear listening, but how can not hear the sound of talking, really anxious to stomp his feet, the heart can not help but make muttering, I have never told a lie ah. I can only continue to make an effort to post the ear on the cucumber vine, hold your breath, and then around the sound of the wind in the autumn, the sound of grasshoppers in the yard wall, the end of the village baby crying vaguely, mixed together, I really seem to hear the weaving girl from time to time near the cry. From then on, I believed I was a good boy who did not lie.

The innocence and simplicity that belonged to my childhood is now full of sweetness in my heart, even if there were no picture books, my mother still gave me enough rituals on every particular day.

My children grew up watching Disney movies and western picture books, and they never had the chance to run under the cucumber stand and listen to the whispers of the cowherd. They don't know the rules of spring, summer, fall and winter crops, they don't know what a wheat seedling looks like, they don't know how many hands a grain of rice has to go through, how many procedures it has to go through to become a bowl of rice on the table.

And such a set of books, just so they can see the original appearance of everything in the world, feel the wonder and beauty of nature, to make up for the lack of living in the city away from the countryside.

In order to interact with the young readers, this set of books is also designed with colorful practical activities. For example, there are scientific experiments: measuring sun and shadow, raising silkworms, watching the Big Dipper to know the festival, the development of cicadas; there are traditional skills: erecting eggs, stilt walkers, wrapping rice dumplings, weaving egg sacks, making lotus lamps; there are festive PK games: flying chess, grabbing a watermelon, see one after the other, and whoever gets the "golden snowflake".

In addition, in each festival, the author also selected suitable and appropriate ancient poems and proverbs for children, for example, in the rainy season, Du Fu's "Spring Night Joyful Rain" was selected, and in the spring equinox season, He Zhizhang's "Winged Willow" was selected.

In fact, this is not only a set of popular science picture books for children, but also suitable for us adults to read, which is reminding us not to abandon the farming civilization that our ancestors have abided by for thousands of years, not to lose the reverence and love for nature, and not to forget the poetry and romance that our fathers have created for us in every festival.

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