Seasonal

Author: Li Liang
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The series takes Chinese figures, social classes, historical sites, cultural relics, folk life, and other humanistic phenomena as its themes. In highly visualized graphic and textual forms, it recreates the profound historical and cultural information and traditional cultural elements of China. Whether in content or expression, it strives to break the boundaries between sophistication and popular culture. While absorbing advanced academic research results, it also maintains a sense of reading enjoyment, comprehensively interpreting Chinese culture, making it a classic graphic and textual read enjoyed by both the refined and the popular. Seasonal Customs focuses on festivals related to the seasons, following the 24 solar terms as its framework. It records the changes in climate and nature while telling folk stories and customs. Time, life, and existence, human times, human world, and human emotions are narrated, encompassing all aspects of the world, both natural and human. The content is rich and multi-layered, filled with knowledge points, folk stories, traditional customs, and poetic expressions by scholars on seasonal customs. It blends both the popular and the refined. Without time, people would be lost in the chaos of the universe and starry clouds. Time awakens a sense of clear existence. Seasonal customs reflect the cycle of time and the repetition of tradition, symbolizing the inheritance and continuity of life. Anthropologists call it the regeneration of life and the accumulation of energy.