The Origin and Significance of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms in China
The “Twenty-Four Solar Terms” is an integrated knowledge system and functional social practice initiated and developed by ancient Chinese. Appling to their daily lives and agricultural production, based on records of the periodic motions of the sun, this knowledge system echoes seasonal and clim...
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Editorial Department of Contemporary Social Sciences
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Contemporary Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://css.researchcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=journal |