Locating in the east of Asia and on the west coast of Pacific Ocean, China has been a country with vast territory featuring complex land Forms and inhabited by numerous ethnic groups since ancient times. It boasts the world's richest and most beautiful natural and cultural landscape, which can be broken down into Forms oF beauty unique to different regions over the four seasons oF each year. Readers will be able to gain a better understanding oF seasonal changes across the country from south to north, and back again. Topographically speaking, China resembles a giant flower basket. From the eastern and southern coasts of China, with the lowest elevation, to the western highland areas crowed by the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are different types of natural landscape such as plains, hills, basins and mountains. Impacted by Factors such as geographical position and climate, such landscapes vary with the changes of season. In special cases, a high mountain range could have landscapes unique to the Four annual seasons existing at the same time on opposite sides. In traditional Chinese aesthetics, spring is the season oF recovery. After the long winter, everything returns to life and begins to grow, becoming full of vitality. Su Dongpo (1037-1101), one of the eight most famous scholars and literati in the Tang and Song Dynasties (618 - 1279), once wrote lyrically in a poem, "Two or three boughs of peach bloom beyond the bamboo grove; when the water in the Spring river becomes warm, ducks are the First to know it." The monotony of Nature in winter is suddenly greeted by gentle spring breezes, colorful flowers bloom. Spring brings new life after a long winter. 【免费在线读】
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中国具有世界上*多样化的地理环境和气候特征,中国人奉行日出而作,日落而息自然规则,人们春种,秋收,夏耕,冬藏,生活在四季轮回中,这样的生活中隐藏着一套严密的自然历法,并沿袭祖先的生活智慧,历经千年而不衰。正是有了辽阔的地理环境才繁衍了57个民族的精彩文化,才有了中国现在的美丽。全套分为《春》《夏》《秋》《冬》4册。 Living in the world’s most geographically and climatically diverse country, Chinese people have followed the rules of nature for a long time. They start working when the sun rises and rest when the evening falls. They sow seeds in spring, plow the land in summer, harvest in autumn and preserve food in winter. Behind this way of life, which follows the cycle of the four seasons, lies a set of natural laws extracted from the wisdom of our ancestors and passed down for generations. Never would the nation have nurtured the splendid cultures of its 56 ethnic groups nor its enchantment today without its vast territory.
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