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Taste twenty―four solar terms 　　Twenty-four solar terms can reflect the climate change in the four seasons. Ancient people use it to guide agricultural activities， and it has affected thousands of households. Today， it has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage， which is the Chinese ancestors’ wisdom of observation and research concerning climate， astronomy and other fields. 中国论文网 /1/viewhtm 　　Birth of 24 Solar Terms 　　One of the problems the ancients are facing is how to divide time. With various categorizations， for example， 90 days as a season， they have developed names like seasons， solar terms， etc. Together， they form the time… 　　The earliest “born” are solar terms like vernal equinox， autumnal equinox， the winter solstice， and summer solstice with distinctive astronomical properties， followed by spring， summer， autumn， winter and other season-related solar terms， and then comes terms related to rain and snow， etc. The last are those the phenology-related solar terms. 　　To the Western Han Dynasty， Huainanzi era， the number， order and name of 24 solar terms have been fixed and continue till today. 　　Solar terms have divided the year into 24 paragraphs， and then look for characteristicsof each of them. For example， Qingming off the snow， Grain Rain breaks frost， such as Grain in Ear comes summersolstice and rain， such as smallsnow seal the ground， heavy snow seals the river. And in accordance with the climatic characteristics of different solar terms， people arrange for production and life. 　　Based on 24 solar term 　　-s there come 72 phenologies 　　Based on 24 solar terms， for more detailed categorization， ancient people divided each term into 3 phenologies， hence come 72 phenologies. In The Book of Yizhou， there are descriptions of their specific characteristics. On the basis of this， the up comers developed and fixed them. For example， concerning the term of spring， when the eastern wind comes， the snow and ice begins to mel