Jingzhe: All Things Vie for Spring
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In the second month of spring, all things emerge from zhen — the trigram of thunder. Thus it is called Jingzhe, the Awakening of Insects: spring plowing begins, peach blossoms open, and all living things race to claim the season.
Background painting: Landscape with Peacocks Artist: Paul Gauguin Year: 1892, French Polynesia Style: Post-Impressionism
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor, stands alongside Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne as one of the three great masters of Post-Impressionism. Landscape with Peacocks deploys vivid, rhythmic blocks of color that balance vibrancy with harmony, rendering an expressive vision of the unity between humanity and the natural world.