I’m alway interested in the lunar calendar. The date of event and festival is alway changed for each year, that makes me oftenly to look up the lunar calendar to see what’s going on for future. Also the 24 solar trems is parts of the lunar thing. I knew one cool thing and really appreciated ancient people who found this rule of the astronomy.
Chinese astronomy divides the year into twenty-four
parts ("fortnights"), based on the longitude of the sun on the
ecliptic. These are called the "Solar Terms.” Solar term is any of
24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a
particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon. These solar terms have meaningful titles. Some of
them reflect the change of seasons such as the Beginning of Spring, the
Beginning of Summer; some
embody the phenomena of climate like the Insects Waken (惊蛰), Clear and Bright (清明); and some indicate the change of climate like Spring Shower (雨水), Corn Rain (谷雨), and
so on. I think is good and cool to know all of them, knowing it when exactly weather changes.
I decide to make an animation of this to show what people will do in the specific day and how’s the weather. For this time I’m using watercolor drawing style, and I think will bring more Asian culture theme out.
So here is the sketches, including four season backgorunds, Chinese characters and twenty four solar terms.
24 solar trems
spring summer
fall winter
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