Twenty-four solar terms correspondence table
Beginning of spring (February 4th), Rain (February 19), Sting (March 6th),
Equinox (March 2 1), Qingming (April 5), Grain Rain (April 2 1),
Changxia (May 6th), Xiaoman (May 2nd1), Mangzhong (June 6th),
Summer solstice (June 22nd), Little Summer (July 7th), Big Summer (July 23rd),
Beginning of autumn (August 8), Chushu (August 23), Millennium (September 8),
Autumnal equinox (September 23rd), cold dew (65438+1October 8th), first frost (65438+1October 23rd),
Beginning of winter (165438+1October 8th), xiaoxue (165438+1October 23rd), heavy snow (65438+February 8th),
Winter solstice (65438+February 2 1), slight cold (1 June 6), severe cold (1 February 2 1).
The historical origin of the twenty-four solar terms
As early as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, our people had the concepts of south to Japan and north to Japan. Subsequently, people divided the year into 24 equal parts according to the natural phenomena such as the running position of the sun and the moon at the beginning and middle of the month, the weather and the growth of animals and plants. And give each equal part a proper noun, that is, twenty-four solar terms. By the end of the Warring States Period, solar terms had eight names: beginning of spring, Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice. These eight solar terms are the most important of the 24 solar terms. Mark the seasonal changes and clearly divide the four seasons of the year. By the Qin and Han Dynasties, the 24 solar terms had been completely established.
The book Huai Nan Zi has the same name as the modern one. In BC 104, the calendar formulated by You et al. officially set 24 solar terms in the calendar and defined the astronomical position of the 24 solar terms. In ancient times, solar terms were called "qi", and there were two qi in each month: the former was called "solar terms" and the latter was called "neutral qi".
Twenty-four solar terms refer to twenty-four seasons and climates. Twenty-four solar terms is a supplementary calendar made by China to guide farming in ancient times, and it is the crystallization of long-term experience and wisdom of working people in ancient China. It was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Because the lunar calendar in China is a kind of "yin and yang calendar", which is based on the movement of the sun and the moon, it can't fully reflect the solar cycle. But China is an agricultural society, and agriculture needs a strict understanding of the movement of the sun, so farming is entirely based on the sun. Therefore, the "twenty-four solar terms" that reflect the solar cycle alone are added to the calendar as the standard for determining leap months. Twenty-four solar terms can reflect the changes of seasons, guide agricultural activities and affect the food, clothing, housing and transportation of thousands of families. The twenty-four solar terms are divided according to the position of the sun on the ecliptic (that is, the orbit of the earth around the sun).
Four seasons correspond to twenty-four solar terms.
In spring, the spring rain starts and the vernal equinox is clear. In summer, Grain Rain is full of summer. Summer is the summer of solstice. Autumn is the summer of early autumn. Autumn is the Millennium. Autumn is cold dew. The first frost is light snow in early winter. Winter is the solstice winter.
Twenty-four solar term song
The spring rain shakes the spring and the valley days, and the summer is full of mountains and summers.
There are dewdrops in autumn, first frost in cold, light snow in winter and cold in winter.