The twenty-four solar terms
One ring for the year, one mark per term, drawn as the narration goes round.
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Make one like thisWhat the video shows
A circular calendar is drawn from the Start of Spring clockwise through Rain Water, Awakening of Insects and the rest, with the four seasons and the two solstices and two equinoxes marked. The narration explains that the terms follow the sun rather than the moon, and what farmers, cooks and poets did at each.
How it was made
Guided-tour mode, Creative style, Chinese narration, three minutes. The ring was generated as one illustration with all twenty-four names checked; two terms whose lettering the image model got wrong were regenerated before rendering.