The "time wisdom" of China's farming era is included in the World Heritage

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] Recently, the 24th solar terms were officially included in the UN Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and the World Heritage added "Chinese Symbols". Twenty-four solar terms are known as the "time wisdom" of the farming era. It combines astronomy, phenology, farming and folklore, and has been used by our people for thousands of years. This spiritual engraving of the imprint of agricultural civilization and the spirit of traditional culture, the ancient wisdom, in the pursuit of "production, life, ecology" three win-win, building a beautiful China today, still shines on our lives, enlighten us Wisdom.

The "time wisdom" of China's farming era is included in the World Heritage

The successful application of the twenty-four solar terms has a profound significance for stimulating the pride of the “three rural” people, enhancing China’s agricultural self-confidence and innovation, and creating a modern new farming civilization.

Twenty-four solar terms are the great contribution of Chinese farming civilization to mankind. In the long-term farming practice, Chinese ancestors found that crop cultivation needs to be carried out according to the sun's operation. Twenty-four solar terms are a set of meteorological calendars that the ancients summarized based on the influence of the sun on the earth during the year to guide agricultural activities. Through the star-watching platform, the ancients measured the shadow at noon, the summer shadow was short, and the winter shadow was long. The long (winter solstice) and short (summer solstice) were divided into 24 equal parts, which produced 24 solar terms. It has been used for more than 2,000 years since the Qin and Han Dynasties.

According to the law of the 24th solar terms, the working people of our country have created rich agricultural slang. For example, "the spring is getting warmer, the rain is getting fat," "to the thriller festival, the girl does not stop." "Before and after the small man, planting beans and beans." With the help of solar terms, spring ploughing, summer ploughing, autumn harvesting, and winter harvesting, the peasants will freeze the year to the recycling system of crop growth, such as cultivation, fertilization, irrigation, harvesting, etc., and time and production and life will be fixed to people and heaven. Even the state of unity. Twenty-four solar terms are a vivid manifestation of Chinese respect for nature and conformity to nature. Thanks to this wisdom, the Chinese nation has created a world-recognized tradition of agricultural glory.

Twenty-four solar terms also profoundly affect people's way of thinking and code of conduct. It carries the unique charm of Chinese philosophy, making the Chinese people's life world a world of qi flow. It allows the life of the stretch to have a "punctuation sentence" to create a Chinese-style life full of festival poetry.

The beauty of the solar terms is given by the sun. One by one, as if it is the "step of the sun", each of us can perceive from the cold and the phenological changes. So, in the eyes of the people, the horror "is a spring thunder that wakes up the sleeping insects in the mud, the bamboo shoots open the soil"; Xiaoman "is the madness of the wheat field, every wheat is full, in the sun is upward power". In many places, the people will prepare their own living materials according to “small snow pickles and heavy snow-cured meat”; the customs of “Qingming eating green groups, eating autumn watermelons”, “winter sashimi dumplings, summer solstice noodles” are still popular; modern health care also pays attention to solar terms. Such as "spring and summer Yangyang, autumn and winter nourishing Yin" "winter disease summer treatment" and so on.

Many festivals are accompanied by a variety of folk activities. Such as: spring separation of eggs, Qingming stepping to sweep the tomb, Gu Yu tea, Xiaoshu taste new rice, eat summer pineapple, white dew and not exposed. In some places, the festival is still used as a holiday, such as the "non-legacy" project, the three-door festival, the Zhuang nationality frost festival, and the Miao nationality. In such folklore matters, inheriting, spreading and promoting traditional culture has increased the sense of national culture.

Twenty-four solar terms and related activities, agglomerating ethnic groups, harmonious people, full of fun, help to resolve the life anxiety and spiritual loneliness of urban people living in reinforced concrete forests, and thus the value of developing leisure agriculture and rural tourism.

The success of the twenty-four solar terms is not the end, but a new starting point for inheritance and protection. The real purpose of non-legacy protection lies in inheriting cultural traditions for the future and providing impetus for the innovation of Chinese contemporary culture and the development of world civilization.

Through the understanding and grasp of the laws of agricultural production, the ancients created the pride of the Chinese farming civilization, such as the 24 solar terms. With the development of modern science and technology, human ability to transform and utilize nature has been enhanced. Facility agriculture, greenhouses and fruits and vegetables have made us no longer subject to strict restrictions on solar terms. Twenty-four solar terms have weakened the guiding function of farming. But no matter how the social development changes with each passing day, human attachment to the land and agriculture will not change, and the basic status of agriculture will not change. Twenty-four solar terms are still the basis for many growers to carry out agricultural production and arrange rural life; the 24th solar terms enter the primary school curriculum and become the time coordinates for cultivating children to understand the natural things; the 24 solar terms remain in the life of contemporary Chinese people. It has many cultural significance and social functions.

The wisdom and ideas of farming civilization contained in the twenty-four solar terms not only have important guiding significance for the development of future ecological, organic and circular modern agriculture, but also enlighten the harmonious and healthy development of the whole society. However, under the worries of “I don’t want to plant land after 70, I will not plant land after 80, I will not plant land after 90, and who will plant land in the future?”, some farming cultures attached to agricultural production are dying. Twenty-four solar terms and other farming culture inheritance have a long way to go. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the relationship between the twenty-four solar terms and the agricultural production and life among young people, especially young people in rural areas (including working youth). Create a good development environment, let young farmers love agriculture and the countryside, and become the inheritors, users and beneficiaries of the 24 solar terms.

The wisdom and creativity of the sages inspire the contemporary "three rural" people to advance on the basis of inheriting and protecting the traditional farming civilization, and create a new "three rural" glory and dream. At present, the construction of modern agriculture and ecological beautiful countryside has created an opportunity and a broad space for the birth and development of new farming civilization. China's agriculture is expected to make a new and greater contribution to the world's farming culture.

(Original title: Chinese farming wisdom and stunning world)