二十四節氣–夏至 The 24 Solar Terms – Summer Solstice / Cinyee Chiu

Brand：海裡魚 HelloFish

Size：13 * 20 cm

Pieces：65 pcs

Type : Wooden puzzles

Finish date：20210506

Artist : Cinyee Chiu

二十四節氣 24 Solar Terms

A personal project in 2014. I designed and illustrated animals for the traditional East Asian 24 solar terms.

For each term, I merged the featured vegetable or fruit, or the special environmental changes of that weather into the animal.

Not all the terms has a related animal, and usually several terms share the same vegetables. I tried to select and arrange them for better design and visual diversity.

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夏至

XiaZhi (Summer Solstice) | Summer’s extreme, longest day time; watermelon.

• 鹿角解：《逸周書》曰：「夏至之日，鹿角解」，意思是說到了夏至這個節氣，鹿角就會脫落。
• 蜩始鳴：蜩（ㄊㄧㄠˊ）指的就是蟬，此時會開始聽到蟬鳴聲。
• 半夏生：半夏是一種藥用植物，本身有毒，會在這個時候開始生長。

鳴蟬ｘ鹿角ｘ西瓜ｘ粽子

此時因太陽直射北回歸線，北半球白晝最長陽氣最盛，開始進入炙熱的季節，農作物及水稻在此時都已完熟收割。設計圖面以「蟬」為代表，將象徵陽光的鹿角元素融入蟬的背部，也把西瓜藏進了蟬身，讓人不自覺有蟬鳴繚繞夏天來臨的感覺。

The sun shines directly at the Northern Tropic now and the day is the longest and yang is the strongest in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s the start of a hot season. Crops and Asian rice are ripe and reaped. Ancient China divided Summer Solstice into 3 pentads, “Antlers come off in the first pentad, cicadas start singing in the second pentad, crow-dippers grow in the third pentad.”

The design uses cicada as representation and integrates antler elements, which symbolize sunshine, into the back of the cicada. A watermelon is also being tucked away in the body of cicada to render a feeling of singing cicadas and the arrival of summer.

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等級：超級簡單。

沒有對稱的觸角，讓 強迫症如 我覺得畫面不是很不舒服；眼睛部分好像”粽子裡的鹹蛋黃”。

圖中圖是端午節的儀式性飲食–粽子

粽子下方既像粽葉，亦像一艘扁舟~