Ding Nongshi

What this book wants to tell is never a myth about "modern people transforming ancient times". You will see: Jiang He, who traveled through time, used a clay pot to measure the ground temperature, only to find that Ji in the tribe had already used "the depth of the wild boar to dig into the ground" to judge the soil quality; when she took out her mobile phone to check the farmers, Cang Wu's knot records faintly overlapped with the line graph on the screen; she taught the tribesmen to "boil drinking water to prevent diseases", and the herbal prescriptions that Shennong pulled out of the rattan basket happened to contain the same wisdom. The twenty-four solar terms were never someone's invention. It is the collision between the cracks on the tortoise shell and the scale of the sundial, the resonance between the water vapor on the rain master's concubine's fingertips and the scales of the bronze beast, the migratory birds summoned by Ji's bone flute, the sunshine measured by Leizu's silk, the wind and frost recorded by the knots of the Cangwu rope - it is the "time code" picked out from the chaos by countless pairs of eyes staring at the sky and the earth, and countless hands touching the grass and trees. Jiang He is more like an "awakener". She carries a modern scale, but awakens the laws that the ancients had long hidden in their work: it turns out that the sound of the bone flute to "repellent insects" coincides with the principle of sound waves; the custom of "picking mugwort during the Qingming Festival" hides the wisdom of fighting spring dryness; the rhythm of digging ice for fishing when "heavy snow seals the river" is the most accurate follow of phenology. It turns out that the solar terms table we hang on the wall today was written into knots, carved into bronze, and sung into songs by pairs of hands stained with mud as early as five thousand years ago. And the wisdom hidden in the solar terms - awe of nature, respect for laws, and persistence in inheritance - has never changed. Just like Ji said: "The solar terms will come on time, just like what should be remembered, there will always be someone who remembers it."