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Title:: The Inheritance of Twenty-four Solar Terms through LivingBallads and Proverbs

Keywords:: ballads; proverbs; twenty-four solar terms; intangible cultural heritage

Abstract:: As a framework of temporal experience，the system of twenty-four solar terms is abstract in form，but at the same time it is also a type of culture full of rich and colorful contents based on the concrete specificproduction and life experience. The free combination of content and form of the solar terms has produced abody of knowledge of seasonal points，which has both universality and local features. The interaction betweenthe content and form of twenty-four solar terms has made them widely spread despite the distances in space andsmoothly inherited despite the differences in time. As a body of knowledge，the twenty-four solar terms haveexisted and been inherited mainly in the form of ballads and proverbs. In the contemporary society，all kinds oftraditional songs of seasonal points have been or should be protected as cultural heritage. But more importantly，a lot of new songs of this type have appeared. This shows that the twenty-four solar terms as a time experienceframework still have practical function in modern society，and the relevant ballads and proverbs are still themain form of their existence.