Based on the CiteSpace scientific literature analysis tool, this paper provides a comprehensive and in-depth visual analysis of the relevant literature on the twenty-four solar terms in the Chinese Knowledge Information Network (CNKI) database between 2009 and 2024, aiming to reveal the academic hot spots, knowledge evolution, and cutting-edge trends in the field. The results of the study show that since the twenty-four solar terms were inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016, there has been a significant increase in scholarly attention and a large increase in the number of research documents. Interdisciplinary cooperation networks are gradually formed, and the research on the twenty-four festivals has a certain degree of interdisciplinarity and cooperation. Inheritance and innovation, festival culture and application, education and dissemination, cultural creation and cross-culturalization constitute the four core research themes; the research vein shows the evolution path of "origin verification → interdisciplinary expansion → innovative application", and in recent years, it has been extended to the fields of health and wellness and eco-tourism, etc. This study quantifies and presents the knowledge mapping of the twenty-four solar terms through the knowledge map. This study quantitatively presents the dynamic structure of the festival research through the knowledge map, which provides a useful reference for researchers in related fields. Meanwhile, it also provides scientific basis and data support for the inheritance and development of the twenty-four solar terms culture.

Song Yukun, Xu Jia, He Xintong, Cao Lei, Pang Yue, Zheng Yangyang, Wang Jilian, Zhong Xiuhong. Visual Analysis of Twenty Four Solar Terms in China Based on CiteSpace. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 4: 67-76. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2025.070409.

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