The Book of Time: The Twenty-Four Solar Terms of the Afterlife
Solar terms are the background and time of Chinese survival, as well as a guide to production and life. Solar terms are not only related to agriculture, health maintenance, etc., but also related to our feelings and cognition of life, nature, and the universe of life. The book introduces the common sense of solar terms in astronomy, climate, agriculture, health, history, aesthetics, philosophical concepts and other aspects from a unique perspective, and the introduction of each solar term and phenology cuts into China's history, customs and ways of survival from one side, and explains the relationship between the natural time and space of the solar terms and the people in it, presents the classical time to the present, and makes people realize that the classical time of the twenty-four solar terms still plays a role in themselves.
"How Much Do You Know about the Seasons of the Year"
New Year paintings, paper cutting, red viewing, dragon boats, begging, moon worship... As a popular book introducing the traditional Chinese festival culture, the book takes the traditional Chinese festival as the context, starting from the legends, origins, customs, diet and other aspects, aiming to introduce the beauty of Chinese festivals, recount the agricultural civilization contained in the festival and its origin with the present. Why do you want to eat spicy vegetables in the spring? How did the Cold Food Festival and the Shangwei Festival come into the Qingming Dynasty? Why weigh yourself on a summer day? What is the ceremony of the winter solstice? Questions such as these can be answered.
China in the Festival
As a traditional culture at the level of behavior, China's traditional festivals are inseparable from the production and life of Chinese, embodying the rich wisdom of Chinese, maintaining the deep feelings of Chinese, and being an integral part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. Festivals are the products of the development of human society to a certain stage, containing a large number of scientific astronomical, meteorological and phenological knowledge, and are also the concentrated embodiment of Chinese civilization's philosophical thoughts, aesthetic consciousness, morality and ethics in folk customs. The book selects nine important festivals that still have a great influence on social life, combs through the origins of festivals, customs, related legends and other aspects, traces back to the source, and expounds the deep connotation and rich meaning of traditional festivals.
Writing in China: Twenty-Four Solar Terms
"Seeing the micro-knowledge" and "waiting for the time" refers to the solar terms, but also a way of thinking and a philosophy of life. How to reproduce and rewrite the lively "twenty-four solar terms" from life, from life, from the vast earth, from the flow of time and space, from remembrance? How can it be rooted in tradition and give meaning to its time? The book carefully selects 24 outstanding essayists such as Zhong Ming, Zhu Yong, Lu Chunxiang, Lan Lan, etc., according to the order of the twenty-four solar terms, starting from "Li Chun" and finally "Great Cold", in the way of one person writing a solar term, from different angles to write the natural phenology, history and culture, hometown affection, and life experience with the twenty-four solar terms as the core.
"Flowers Bloom Without Realizing the Depth of Time"
The Chinese solar calendar, the solar calendar, is a Chinese invention and is embodied in the twenty-four solar terms, corresponding to twenty-four different positions in the orbit of the Earth. There are two solar terms per month, three seasons per solstice, five days per solstice, for a total of seventy-two days a year. Yin and yang flow, and the cycle begins again and again. The ancestors not only took the solar terms as the time guide for agricultural production, guiding people to arrange food, clothing, shelter and transportation in an orderly manner according to this, but also "took the body near and the things from afar", and felt the heavens and the earth between the pitches. The humanistic concept of Taoism and nature and respect for laws permeates all aspects of traditional Chinese culture. The book combines the analysis of 24 solar terms and folklore, the appreciation of 72 seasonal plants, and the original manuscripts hand-painted by the Japanese painter Zoe Koishi more than 100 years ago, accompanied by 144 classical poems to read, showing the beauty of phenology and flowers.
《The Forbidden City Knows the Seasons》
The origin of the book is that the Palace Museum collected but never revealed to the Southern Song Dynasty Xia Lian, is actually a "Moon Order Map" book drawn by the Ming Dynasty. This moon order diagram is an earlier surviving illustration of the seventy-two seasons of the twenty-four solar terms (commonly known in ancient times: the seventy-two days of the moon order). In the book, there are interpretations of each solar term, based on climate big data (including modern climate data, but also including the observational data of the Qing Dynasty Qin Tianjian), and there are also propositional compositions: from the two dimensions of culture and science, the seventy-two weather of the twenty-four solar terms are interpreted one by one- including the climate logic in the "story" of the solar terms, the controversy in the phenological identification, and the scientific fallacy.
"Twenty-Four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Seasons"
The flow of the four seasons is both natural and cultural. The twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weathers are not only a set of knowledge systems about the laws of seasonal, climatic and phenological changes, but also belong to the Chinese philosophy of time and the aesthetics of life, which contain the ancients' thoughts on nature, heaven and earth, years and life. The author pursues the footsteps of the change of the four seasons, deeply interprets each festival and phenology, not only explains it from the level of knowledge, but also combines his own life experience and life experience, excavates the ancient wisdom, philosophy and poetry of the Chinese nation contained in it, and shows the universal value and significance of the ancient Chinese wisdom represented by the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two days to the contemporary world from different angles such as art, literature, philosophy and science.
"Twenty-Four Solar Terms in Gangnam"
As a traditional humanistic book jointly explained by folklore experts Yuan Jin and Xiao Fang on The Chinese solar terms culture, the book is based on the historical culture and natural production of Jiangnan, and explains the regional culture and folk customs of the Jiangnan region during the 24 solar terms on the influence of the 24 solar terms on economic production and life and regional cultural characteristics in the Jiangnan region. From agricultural activities to festivals and celebrations, from food to clothing, it comprehensively shows and summarizes the characteristics of Jiangnan regional culture and folk culture that have been bred with the change of seasons.
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