What is the truth of China Farmers Harvest Festival in cultural life?

China Farmers Harvest Festival is not an ordinary festival, it is a festival for hundreds of millions of farmers to celebrate and enjoy the harvest, and it is also a vivid embodiment of the harvest, the country and the people.

In ancient China, there was a tradition of celebrating harvest and looking forward to the peace of the country and people, and many places also held unique festivals related to agriculture. Moreover, China's agriculture has been bumper harvest year after year, farmers' income has been increasing, agricultural modernization has been accelerated, and the development foundation is sufficient. At the same time, there is demand in the market, and the general public has the demand to return to the countryside, participate in farming experience, taste rural feelings and rural dreams.

Farmers' Harvest Festival in China is held at the autumnal equinox of 24 solar terms every year. Twenty-four solar terms are a supplementary calendar to guide farming, which was formulated in the pre-Qin period and completely established in the Han Dynasty. It is a knowledge system formed by observing the movement of the sun in a year and understanding the changing laws of the four seasons, climate and phenology in a year. It divides the sun's annual trajectory into 24 equal parts, and each equal part is a solar term, starting from beginning of spring and ending with severe cold. It is not only a time standard promulgated by successive governments, but also a compass to guide agricultural production. The compass for predicting cold, warm, rainy and snowy weather in daily life is the crystallization of the long-term experience and wisdom of the working people of the Han nationality. 2016165438+1October 30th, 24 solar terms were officially listed in UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In the field of international meteorology, the 24 solar terms are known as "the fifth invention of China".

Let's look at the autumnal equinox. The autumnal equinox in the 24 solar terms is the same as the vernal equinox, and the length of day and night is almost equal, which is in the middle of the whole autumn. "Spring and Autumn Stories Yin and Yang in and out" said: "The autumn equinox, Yin and Yang are half-phase, so it is cold and summer day and night. This is the origin of the word share equally. After the autumnal equinox, the days in the northern hemisphere are short and the nights in the southern hemisphere are long.

As the saying goes, "Spring grows in summer and autumn harvests in winter". We often say that autumn is the harvest season, the golden breeze is refreshing, the osmanthus fragrance is fragrant, and there is a bumper harvest in the fields. The rural land in the autumn equinox season is fruitful, which can best reflect the bumper harvest. The autumnal equinox season is equally divided day and night, and the autumn is crisp. It is not only an important season for autumn harvest, autumn ploughing and autumn planting, but also a good season for rice fragrance, crab fat and chrysanthemum yellow and autumn scenery.

Therefore, China Farmers Harvest Festival has the following significance:

1. can create a good atmosphere for the implementation of rural revitalization strategy. Rural revitalization will provide a solid economic and social foundation for the China Farmers Harvest Festival and create a strong atmosphere for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. This year is the first year of implementing the rural revitalization strategy. The establishment of this festival in the first year is conducive to gathering the strength and resources of all parties, promoting the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations, and promoting the overall revitalization of rural areas.

2. It can encourage farmers to devote themselves to rural revitalization. Farmers are the main body of agricultural and rural development and the main body of rural revitalization strategy. Promoting rural revitalization is for farmers and also depends on farmers. Holding a harvest festival can allow farmers to participate in it and devote themselves to it, giving full play to the main role of hundreds of millions of farmers. Holding this festival can stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of farmers, and will certainly enhance the enthusiasm and confidence of hundreds of millions of farmers to revitalize the countryside.

3. It can meet the needs of farmers for a better life. Rich life is the foundation of rural revitalization. The richness of life is not only manifested in the material level, but also in the spiritual level. Through the "China Farmers Harvest Festival", the achievements of farmers' labor will be displayed, and farmers will be provided with more public cultural services, richer spiritual and cultural life, and more diverse cultural products, so that the whole society can feel that agriculture is a promising industry, farmers are attractive occupations, and the countryside is beautiful homeland.

4. It is conducive to inheriting and carrying forward Chinese farming civilization and excellent cultural traditions, allowing people to release their emotions, inherit culture, find their belonging, gather people's emotional sustenance for that mountain, that water and that field, and enjoy the spiritual edification of farming culture.