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Solar Terms & Seasons
二十四节气
Seasonal time in painting and custom—Beginning of Summer loquats, winter pheasants, and the calendar of classical art.
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beginning of winter
Beginning of Winter: pheasants in Palace Museum art
Pheasants as seasonal omen and brush motif in Forbidden City paintings for the Beginning of Winter.
Bailu
White Dew: reed geese in Forbidden City painting
Reed-wild geese as a White Dew motif—flight, season, and Palace Museum brushwork.
Solar Terms & Seasons
Summer Solstice: the earliest solar term and midsummer festival
Summer Solstice in the twenty-four solar terms—the earliest fixed term and an ancient festival.
Solar Terms & Seasons
Grain in Ear: wheat harvest and rice planting at once
Mangzhong, the busiest solar term—harvesting wheat and planting rice in the same week.
Palace Museum
Forbidden City Flower Letter | Hemerocallis
Forbidden City Flower Letter: hemerocallis (daylily) in court painting and literati garden taste.
Solar Terms & Seasons
Loquats in Chinese painting: taste of early summer
Why loquats mark Beginning of Summer—and how brush and ink keep returning to their gold fruit.
Solar Terms & Seasons
Lixia: summer arrives and everything grows
Beginning of Summer in the twenty-four solar terms—folk customs when growth turns green.