"Spring thunder, all things grow."
Nowadays, it is the Spring Festival.
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Twenty-four solar terms countdown video,
Sent to a global audience
The "Song of Spring", which is full of Chinese cultural implications.
Created and polished for ten years, the book "Twenty-four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Seasons", jointly completed by Xu Lijing and Xu Dongdong, was recently officially launched by Beijing Times Mandarin.
With more than 140 exquisite Chinese abstract paintings and nearly 80 beautiful and delicate texts, the book innovatively depicts the subtle and wonderful system of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons from the perspective of the concept of life, explains the way of heaven and earth behind this system and the love for the life of all things, and fully expresses the new understanding and new thinking of China's excellent traditional culture. The ancient twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons have become the carrier of the author's exploration of the evolution of the cosmic world and culture, and have also become the entry point for his understanding of nature and life.
Taste the four seasons and feel the unique poetic aesthetics of life Chinese
The 24 solar terms are one of the most representative essences and classics of traditional Chinese culture, praised by the international meteorological community as "China's fifth greatest invention", and officially listed in the UNESCO Catalogue of Masterpieces of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on November 30, 2016.
In the view of the author of the book, the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weathers are not only a set of knowledge systems on the laws of seasonal, climatic and phenological changes, but also a philosophy of time belonging to the Chinese, and it is also a unique philosophy of life and life aesthetics of Chinese.
The whole book aims to break through the traditional perspective of understanding, to enter the level of the concept of life by recognizing the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weather, to show the poetic aesthetics of life Chinese, to understand the source of Chinese life energy, and to tell the contemporary value and world significance of ancient Chinese wisdom and traditional Chinese culture.
It is understood that the text and paintings of the book are original. The author traces the footsteps of the changes of the four seasons, interprets each solar term and phenology, not only explains it from the level of knowledge, but also combines his own life experience and life experience, understands the subtle transmutation of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weather, excavates the endless life energy of the Chinese nation contained in it, and gives it a new interpretation of life aesthetics.
For the first time, Chinese abstract paintings are used to interpret the 24 solar terms and 72 festivals, and the Chinese culture is innovatively displayed in an international artistic language.
The picture shows Xu Dongdong, one of the authors of this book, a national first-class artist and a member of the China Artists Association
What is very precious is that the contemporary Chinese abstract painting master Xu Dongdong has completed the series of group paintings of "Twenty-Four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Seasons" over a period of eight years, which is the first time in this book that the painting paper that condenses the artist's life meets the reader for the first time in the most authentic state.
This is the first set of series of artistic creations that use Chinese abstract painting language to completely depict the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons, using rice paper and brush as the carrier, using the international painting language to get close to Chinese culture and Chinese wisdom, so that the "old tree" of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons sends out the "new branches" of the culture of the times.
The reading of these paintings has become a source of understanding of the four seasons and the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons.
Famous masters talk to each other, multi-dimensional interpretation of the historical and practical significance of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two days
The book brings together a number of famous artists from different fields to expound the historical and practical significance of the 24 solar terms and 72 from the dimensions of culture, art, science, philosophy and so on, helping people to deeply understand the contemporary value of this ancient system.
Writer and scholar Wang Meng said in the preface to the recommendation of this book that the essence of Chinese culture is to reach the realm of heaven and earth, pay attention to the unity of heaven and man, the creation of teachers, harmony and difference, beauty and commonality, in the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two weather, we ancient people's eyes saw everything in the universe, every phenological life is precious, and the universe is a whole, a system. Therefore, the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two days are the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the cosmology and outlook on life it contains are very remarkable, and they are modern and even postmodern, and it is very meaningful to put it in today and in the future and in the world.
Wang Meng said, "As the new book says, the Seventy-Two Seasons are astronomical views, a geographical view based on the Yellow River Basin, a time view of seasons and climate, a view of agricultural production and agricultural civilization, and a Chinese view of life, a view of nature, a world view, a cosmology view, a nostalgia that has been lost since ancient times, a praise and closeness to the land of Shenzhou, and a value of concern, interest, curiosity, imagination and virtue of various life phenomena." It makes us suddenly rediscover the spiritual pearl that we have long had but seems to have been sleeping for a long time, forgotten and indifferent for thousands of years, making it radiant, heart-warming, and full of vitality again"...
In addition, Ding Yihui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and special adviser to climate change of the China Meteorological Administration, Chen Lai, dean of the Institute of Chinese Studies of Tsinghua University and president of the Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy, and Xue Qikun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the Southern University of Science and Technology, all participated in the dialogue of this book, expounding the practical significance of the 24 solar terms and 72 days from different dimensions such as meteorology, philosophy, and quantum physical science.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: Wang Yao
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Xie Yufen