A Chinese solar-term poster for "Beginning of Spring (Lichun)", 9:16 vertical, layered depth
composition: warm ivory handmade rice-paper background with visible mulberry-bark and grass
fibers embedded in the pulp, subtle botanical paper grain and faint watermark shadows of
blossoms, a central vertical color panel in very low-saturation pale goose-yellow wash, its outline
softened by mottled torn-paper edges, irregular fibrous frayed borders with patchy mottled gaps
revealing the paper beneath, like a piece of plant-dyed handmade paper torn by hand, a winter
jasmine branch painted in delicate gongbi-ink style, dark ink-brown branches carving silhouette over
the faint panel with small bright six-petal blossoms, the branch breaking beyond the panel edges
with subtle contact shadows, a tiny swallow silhouette on the paper margin, the primary visual
anchor: large expressive hand-brushed Chinese calligraphy title "立春" in contemporary brush style,
dramatic thick-thin stroke pressure variation, dry-brush flying-white texture, ink tonal gradation,
slightly tilted, placed asymmetrically overlapping the panel edge, thin serif English caps "BEGINNING
OF SPRING" beneath, a slim vertical column of small poem text "东风吹散梅梢雪,一夜挽回天下
春 ", small muted vermilion seal stamps, date "2026.02.04 · 农 历 腊 月 十 七 ", handwritten brush
phrase "春回大地,万物萌新", bottom caption "传统二十四节气-立春 / TRADITIONAL 24 SOLAR
TERMS", matte refined new-Chinese editorial aesthetic --ar 9:16