Twenty-four Solar Terms
中国的二十四节气
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Course Syllabus 课程章节
1The twenty-four solar terms refer to 24 points in Chinese traditional lunar calendar, each with particular implication. Matching precise rhythmic changes in nature and reflecting cultural and historical significance, these solar terms represent an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. In 2016 the twenty-four solar terms were included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of the UNESCO. While revealing in a scientific way the knowledge of astronomy and meteorology, the solar terms embody astronomic and meteorological changes and combine astronomy, the natural cycle and folk custom into an significant part in Chinese traditional culture that plays a distinctive role in our everyday life. They were born of the agrarian civilization since ancient times that were closely related to the cycle of nature. The ancients arranged their farming in accordance with farming seasons and observed the movement of heavenly bodies, on which basis they invented a system that tells the law regulating the seasons, the climate and the phenology. Each solar term indicates changes in three aspects: climate, phenology and time. The twenty-four solar terms not only serve as a guide to agriculture but also have a bearing on basic necessities of life for the ancients, even their notions and concepts. Indeed men of letters of different epochs have left us with a number of poems about these solar terms, lending poetic and pictorial splendor to these otherwise impersonal division of a solar year. Come on! Let’s come to these twenty-four Chinese solar terms!
二十四节气,是中国农历历法中二十四个特定节令,每个节气均有其独特的含义。它准确地反映了自然节律变化,蕴含着悠久的文化内涵和历史积淀,是中华民族悠久历史文化的重要组成部分,2016年被正式列入联合国教科文组织人类非物质文化遗产代表作目录。
二十四节气科学地揭示了天文气象变化的规律,将天文、自然节律和民俗巧妙结合,成为中华民族传统文化的重要组成部分,在人们日常生活中发挥了极为重要的作用。“二十四节气”是上古农耕文明的产物,农耕生产与大自然的节律息息相关,它是古人顺应农时,通过观察天体运行,认知一年中时令、气候、物候等方面变化规律所形成的体系。每个节气都表示着气候、物候、时候,这“三候”的不同变化。
“二十四节气”不仅在农业生产方面起着指导作用,同时还影响着古人的衣食住行,甚至是文化观念,历代文人墨客写下了很多与二十四节气相关的诗词,赋予了二十四节气诗情画意。
跟随我们的课程一起走进中国的二十四节气吧!