24 solar terms - great creation in Chinese history

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Summer solstice will come soon, but because of the recent exam, so we will advance to introduce China's 24 solar terms. Real great creation! The fourteen solar terms, a kind of supplementary calendar used in ancient China to guide farming, is based on the position of the sun on the ecliptic (i.e., the earth's orbit around the sun's mass). In the spring and Autumn period, the ancient sages set Chinese February, midsummer, four autumn and winter solar term, and continuously improve and perfect, to the Qin Dynasty, has established twenty-four solar term pet full. The twenty-four solar term concentrated material cultural heritage is very rich, including proverbs, folk songs, legends, there are the traditional tools of production, life appliances, handicrafts, paintings and other works of art, including festivals, and seasonal production is closely relationship rituals and folk customs. The twenty-four solar terms, as a concrete example of ancient Chinese agricultural civilization, have high research value of agricultural history and culture. In November 30, 2016, the "twenty-four solar terms" - the time, knowledge and reality of the Chinese people's observation of the sun's anniversary movement, was listed as the most important representative of UNESCO's human heritage.