Book of Time 时间之书:余世存说二十四节气

by Yu Shicun

Solar term is the time and background for Chinese people's survival as well as the guidance of production and life. Usually, the introduction about solar term is only limited in professional knowledge about astronomy, agriculture and health maintenance while the introduction here for each solar term combines Chinese history, folklore and ways of survival to some extent. It brilliantly recommends the phenology in 24 solar terms as well as its meaning in culture and history, and the meaning in thousand years of daily life. In addition, it rationally analyzes the function of time to prove the meaning of the combination of temperament and the calendar (Lv and Li in Chinese). At the moment of calendar change, there are rules and laws of our survival. 节气是中国人生存的时间和背景，生产和生活的指南。有关节气的介绍往往仅止于天文、农业、养生等专业常识，作者对每一节气的介绍，都从一个侧面切入中国的历史、习俗和生存之道，对二十四节气中众多的物候以及它们在中国历史、文化上的意义，在中国人千百年间日常生活中的意义，做了精彩的介绍；又从现代人的视野出发，理性地分析了时间的功能，证实中国人将律历并称的意义，在日历变易之际，有我们生存的规律和律令。

312 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 2016