Interpreting the 24 solar terms sentence by sentence

The twenty-four solar terms are explained sentence by sentence:

1, beginning of spring: "Li" means beginning, "Spring" means stupidity, which means that everything begins to have life. It symbolizes the beginning of spring. When the temperature rises, everything wakes up and spring comes back.

2. Rain: It means that the weather in China is getting warmer, the snowfall stops, it begins to rain, and the rainfall begins to increase gradually.

3. Thunder: When thunder began, everything was shocked, the temperature and ground temperature gradually increased, the land thawed, spring ploughing began, and hibernating animals began to wake up and unearthed.

4. vernal equinox: the vernal equinox is the midpoint of three months and 90 days in spring. On this day, the sun shines directly on the equator, which is a day of equal division between day and night. The vernal equinox and autumnal equinox were called vernal equinox in ancient times, that is, day and night were equal.

5. Qingming: The weather is fine, the temperature is getting warmer, the vegetation is sprouting, and everything is thriving. This is a folk grave-sweeping festival.

6. Grain Rain: Rainfall is increasing gradually, and timely rainfall is extremely beneficial to grain growth. "The Book of Filial Piety" says: The bucket refers to Chen as Grain Rain, and the rain gives birth to a hundred valleys.

7. Long summer: The temperature rises obviously in summer, and everything will grow rapidly with the warm climate.

8, Xiaoman: full, indicating that the yang is full. Small fullness means that the sun be the spirit has not reached the strongest state. Plumpness also means that the grain is full, and the summer grain such as wheat is gradually full and begins to bear fruit.

9. Miscanthus species: "Miscanthus" refers to some crops with awns, and species refers to seeds. Seeds with awns indicate that crops with awns, such as wheat and barley, are ripe for harvesting. At this time, it is also the season of busy sowing late rice, millet and millet, so it is also called "awn seed".

10, summer solstice: On this day, the sun shines directly on this regression line, which is the longest day and the shortest night in this hemisphere. The ancients had an anode, and Yin Qi began to grow. The days here are long and the shadows are short, so it is the solstice of summer. It marks the arrival of hot summer.

1 1, Xiaoshu: "Summer" means heat. Slight summer heat refers to the hot weather, but it has not yet reached the hottest time.

12, Great Summer: the hottest period of the year.

13, beginning of autumn: "Autumn" means that the crops are about to mature. Beginning of autumn is the beginning of autumn, which indicates that the temperature begins to drop. It belongs to the cool weather with crisp autumn and clear moon and wind.

14, Chu Xia: "Chu" means "stop". This means that the hot summer is over.

15, Bailu: Water and soil are condensed into dew by moisture. Because the temperature gradually turns cold at this time, the day is warm and the night is cool, it is easy to reach the condition of condensation into dew. Therefore, the dew in the season is heavy and white, so it is called Bailu.

16, autumnal equinox: In the 90 days of autumn, the sun shines directly at the equator like the vernal equinox, and the length of day and night is equal.

17, cold dew: cold is the gas of cold dew, first white and then cold, indicating that the climate is getting colder. At this time, the temperature is already very low and the vegetation is gradually wilting.

18, first frost: "frost" refers to the condensation of water vapor when the ground is cold. Therefore, it is not the frost in the first frost, but the phenomenon that the weather is cold and the earth will produce the first frost.

19, beginning of winter: late winter, things hide in the end. It means harvesting crops after harvest, which means that this day is the beginning of winter.

20. Light snow: It means that the temperature drops, so the rain turns to snow, but when the snow season comes, the amount of snow is not large.

2 1, heavy snow: the temperature continues to drop, the snowfall is also from small to large, and snow begins to appear on the ground.

22. Winter solstice: On this day, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn. On this day, the hemisphere has the shortest day and the longest night. In ancient times, there was a saying about this day, that is, when the cathode arrived, the yang began to grow, the sun went south, the days were short and the shadows were long, so it was the solstice of winter. It indicates the arrival of winter.

23, slight cold: "cold" means that the cold has accumulated for a long time. A slight cold means that it is not the coldest time yet.

24. Great cold: Extreme cold means the coldest season of the year.

The origin of twenty bytes of gas

Twenty-four solar terms are the traditional solar terms of the Chinese nation, which originated from the ancient farming culture in China. It is a specific time of the year according to the position of the sun on the ecliptic and the orbit of the earth. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, ancient farmers in China began to observe, study and record the phenomenon of solar terms, forming an ancient and accurate system of 24 solar terms.

According to farmers' observation of the natural environment and the needs of crop growth and development, the 24 solar terms divide a year into 24 uniform time periods, and each solar term marks the change of seasons and the transfer of farming. These solar terms include beginning of spring, Rain, Surprise, Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Long Summer, Xiaoman, Busy, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, Great Summer, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, White Dew, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.

Through the 24 solar terms, people can arrange farming activities reasonably according to the changes of seasons, help agricultural production and protect the growth and harvest of crops. At the same time, the 24 solar terms also reflect the awe of nature and the attention to seasonal changes in ancient China culture, and become one of the unique cultural symbols of the Chinese nation.