Chinese farming wisdom stuns the world

Recently, 24 solar terms have been officially listed on the United Nations list of intangible cultural heritage, adding "Chinese symbol" to the World Heritage site. The 24 solar terms are known as the "time wisdom" of the farming age, which perfectly combines astronomy, phenology, farming and folklore, and has been used by our people for thousands of years.

Engraved with the mark of agricultural civilization and beating the pulse of traditional culture, this spiritual code and ancient wisdom still shine on our lives and enlighten our wisdom in the pursuit of "production, life, ecology" win-win situation and building a beautiful China. The success of applying for 24 solar terms is of far-reaching significance to stimulate the pride of the people of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, enhance China's agricultural self-confidence and innovation, and create a new modern agricultural civilization.

24 solar terms is the great contribution of Chinese farming civilization to mankind. In the long-term farming practice, our ancestors found that crop cultivation needs to be carried out according to the operation of the sun. 24 solar terms is a set of meteorological calendar summed up by the ancients according to the influence of the sun on the earth in a year, which is used to guide agricultural activities. Through the stargazing platform, the ancients measured the sun shadow at noon. The sun shadow was the shortest in summer and the longest in winter, dividing it into 24 equal parts between the longest (the Winter Solstice) and the shortest (the Summer Solstice), which produced 24 solar terms. It has been in use for more than 2000 years since the Qin and Han dynasties.

According to the law of 24 solar terms, the working people of our country have created rich agricultural proverbs. For example, "when spring is getting warmer, Rain Water is busy with fat", "when it comes to Jingzhong Festival, hoes don't stop", "around Lesser Fullness of Grain, planting melons and beans" and so on. With the help of solar terms, spring ploughing, summer ploughing, autumn harvest and winter storage, farmers freeze a year into a circular system of crop growth and collection, such as farming, fertilization, irrigation, harvesting, and so on. Time, production and life are fixed to the state of correspondence and even unity between man and the way of heaven. The 24 solar terms is a clear manifestation of Chinese people's respect for and adaptation to nature. Thanks to the guidance of this wisdom, the Chinese nation has created a universally recognized glory of traditional agriculture.

The 24 solar terms also have a profound impact on people's way of thinking and code of conduct. It carries the unique charm of Chinese philosophy and makes the life world of Chinese people a flowing world of charm. It makes the continuous life have "punctuation sentence amusement", creating a Chinese-style life full of festival poetry.

The beauty of solar terms is given by the sun. One by one solar terms, like "the footsteps of the sun", each of us can feel from the cold and summer, phenological changes. As a result, in the eyes of the people, the sting "is a spring thunder that awakens the sleeping insects in the soil, and the bamboo shoots open the soil"; Lesser Fullness of Grain "is the crazy growth of the wheat field, every wheat plant is full, and it is an upward force in the sun." People in many places will prepare their daily necessities according to "Lesser Snow pickled vegetables and heavy snow pickled meat"; the custom of "Qingming Festival eating Youth League, the Beginning of Autumn eating watermelons", "the Winter Solstice dumplings, the Summer Solstice noodles" is still popular; modern health preservation also attaches importance to solar terms, such as "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", "winter disease and summer treatment" and so on.

Many festivals are accompanied by rich and colorful folk activities. For example, the Spring Equinox stands up eggs, visits tombs during Qingming Festival, Grain Rain picks tea, Xiaoxia tastes new rice, Greater Heat eats pineapples, White Dew does not show himself, and so on. In some places, solar terms are still spent as festivals, such as the "non-heritage" project of offering sacrifices to winter, Frost Festival of the Zhuang nationality, and the Miao nationality to catch up with the autumn. In such folk matters, it inherits, spreads and carries forward the traditional culture and increases the sense of identity of the national culture.

24 solar terms and related activities, which unite ethnic groups, are harmonious and interesting, and help to resolve the life anxiety and spiritual loneliness of urban people living in reinforced concrete forests, so it is of great value to the development of leisure agriculture and rural tourism.

The success of applying for 24 solar terms is not the end point, but a new starting point for inheritance and protection. The real purpose of non-heritage protection is to inherit cultural traditions facing the future and to provide impetus for the innovation of contemporary Chinese culture and the development of world civilization.

Through the understanding and grasp of the laws of agricultural production, the ancients created and cultivated the pride of Chinese agricultural civilization such as 24 solar terms. With the development of modern science and technology, human beings' ability to transform and utilize nature has been enhanced. Facility agriculture, greenhouse fruits and vegetables, and so on, let us no longer be strictly restricted by solar terms. The guiding function of 24 solar terms for farming has been weakened. However, no matter how the social development changes with each passing day, human attachment to land and agriculture will not change, and the basic status of agriculture will not change. 24 solar terms are still the basis for many growers to carry out agricultural production and arrange rural life; 24 solar terms enter the primary school curriculum and become the time coordinate for training children to understand all natural things; 24 solar terms still have various cultural significance and social functions in contemporary Chinese life.

The wisdom and concept of agricultural civilization contained in 24 solar terms is not only of great guiding significance for the development of ecological, organic and circular modern agriculture in the future, but also enlightening for the harmonious and healthy development of the whole society. However, in the "post-70s do not want to farm, post-80s will not farm, post-90s do not mention farming, who will farm the countryside in the future?" Under the hidden worries, some farming cultures attached to agricultural production are dying out. The inheritance of farming culture such as 24 solar terms has a long way to go. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the relationship between popular science 24 solar terms and agricultural production and life among young people, especially in rural areas (including young migrant workers). Create a good environment for development, let young farmers love agriculture and rural areas, and become the inheritors, users and beneficiaries of the 24 solar terms.

The wisdom and creativity of the sages inspire the contemporary people of agriculture, rural areas and farmers to forge ahead on the basis of inheriting and protecting the traditional farming civilization, and create new glory and dreams of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. At present, modern agriculture and ecological beautiful rural construction have created opportunities and broad space for the gestation and development of new farming civilization. It is expected that Chinese agriculture will make new and greater contributions to the world farming culture.