Bicycle 24 Solor Terms (Summer - Score of Southern Rain)

The Bicycle "24 Solar Terms" Series is an art deck named after the four seasons: "Spring: Scroll of River Mist," "Summer: Score of Southern Rain," "Autumn: Anthology of Wind and Water," and "Winter: Chronicle of Ink and Snow." It evokes a poetic vision wherein "the misty rain of Jiangnan becomes a painting, and the ink-wash wind and snow become poetry."

Each card is a living, breathing scroll of colored ink painting. Two or three cards can be pieced together to form the hazy drizzle of Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects), while four or five can connect to create the vista of Bailu (White Dew), where autumn waters merge with the vast sky.

As the deck's hand-painted artwork flows through your fingertips, it is like unfurling a dynamic, pastoral anthology of poetry and painting. With its unique illustrations, this deck allows the four seasons to complete their cycle within a single shuffle.

Every combination creates a new landscape. Perhaps two or three cards reveal the haze of the Plum Rain season, or seven or eight link together to form the boundless expanse of swirling snow in the frontier lands. Within the small tableau of a card spread, you can begin to decipher the code of the cosmos.

The Dance of Inked Scales: Capturing the Heart of Summer on a Card.

The changing of seasons is subtly hinted at in the gathering and scattering of duckweed; with each flick of its tail, a red carp swims through the six periods of summer. The journey begins with the cherries of Lixia (Start of Summer), lightly touched by morning dew, and the low-hanging wheat heads of Xiaoman (Grain Buds). At Mangzhong (Grain in Ear), the plums are caught between green and yellow, and by Xiazhi (Summer Solstice), lotus leaves stretch to meet the sky.

As the season deepens into Xiaoshu (Lesser Heat) and Dashu (Great Heat), the cards are gradually dyed with the scorching hues of the blazing sun, as if condensing the very essence of high summer into the deck.