China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network trainee reporter Chen Ding) Recently, xu Lijing and Xu Dongdong jointly created and polished for ten years, the book "Twenty-four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Waits" was published by CITIC Publishing House.
The 24 solar terms are one of the most representative essences and classics of traditional Chinese culture, praised by the international meteorological community as "China's fifth greatest invention", and was officially inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on November 30, 2016. With more than 140 exquisite Chinese abstract paintings and nearly 80 beautiful and delicate texts, the book innovatively depicts the grand and subtle wonderful system of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two days from the perspective of the concept of life, explains the way of heaven and earth behind this system and the love for the life of all things, and fully expresses the new understanding and new thinking of China's excellent traditional culture.
"Twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons" three-dimensional seal
It is understood that the text and paintings of the book are original. The two authors ask questions with pictures, write articles with pictures, take "heaven" as the unit, carefully pursue the footsteps of the changes of the four seasons, interpret each festival and phenology, not only explain from the level of knowledge, but also combine their own experience and life experience, study and understand the changes of heaven and earth and magnificent life imagery of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weathers, excavate the endless life energy of the Chinese nation contained in it, and give it a new interpretation of life aesthetics. The perception of nature, the appreciation of art, and the contemplation of life are blended together.
Xu Lijing, the text writer and deputy editor-in-chief of the Economic Daily, wrote in the preface to this book: "Walking in the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two days, I also walked in an incomparably rich, gorgeous and thick cultural time and space. The ancient wisdom, philosophy and poetry of the Chinese nation have gone through thousands of years and are still vivid and vivid, and in this world's 'great changes that have not occurred in a hundred years', they have brought us new enlightenment and shown new values. ”
One of the authors of this book, Xu Dongdong, a national first-class artist
Xu Dongdong wrote in the creation talk: "In the eight years of creating "Twenty-Four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Seasons", it is really time like a shuttle, but there is no moment of hesitation, do not miss the blessings of time brought by each festival, do not miss the momentary touch brought by each season, do not miss the philosophy of the concept of life in the universe brought about by the change of the four seasons, and do not miss the pursuit of the truth, goodness and beauty of life in the enlightenment. ”
The book also brings together a number of famous artists from different fields to expound the historical and practical significance of the 24 solar terms and 72 from the dimensions of culture, art, science, philosophy and other dimensions, helping people to deeply understand the contemporary value of this ancient system.
Writer and scholar Wang Meng said, "Thanks to this book, it makes us suddenly rediscover the spiritual pearl that we have long had but seems to have been sleeping for a long time, forgotten and indifferent for thousands of years, making it radiant, warm and full of vitality again." The Chinese Dream has opened up another cultural firewood, and we who are striding forward on the road of socialist modernization are connected to the Chinese calendar culture that has lasted for thousands of years. ”
Source: China Youth Daily client