From Laba to Lantern Festival, the rhythm of seasonal life.
Visual Curation · Chinese Culture
Tradition, retold as a contemporary journey.
An online cultural gallery that uses layout, rhythm, and image-text relationships to reframe festivals, crafts, ideas, and daily rituals.
This season: Time and ritual
Following the 24 solar terms and seasonal festivals, we map the rhythm and ritual that shape daily life.
24
Solar terms
Regional variations in maps and images.
12
Curated chapters
Festivals, landscapes, rituals, and objects.
Structure
A content site can read like a museum visit.
Every page uses hierarchy, whitespace, and image-text pairings to create a paced, immersive walk-through.
Lacquer, brocade, celadon, and the aesthetics behind the hand.
Texts like the Shan Hai Jing weave space and time into story.
Tea, incense, music, and calligraphy turn life into ritual.
Festival timeline
A seasonal framework that traces customs from late winter into spring, highlighting food, ritual, and regional differences.
Late winter
Laba porridge opens the season, homes prepare for renewal.
First month
Couplets, ancestor rites, and visits shape the social rhythm.
Second month
Flower festivals and spring rites reconnect people and land.
Third month
Outings and new greens mark the shift to early spring.
Festivals and ritual
How ceremony connects family, land, and season.
Arts and craft
Scale, pattern language, and hand-made techniques.
Thought and cosmos
From yin-yang and five elements to harmony with nature.