Dao LivingThe Living Almanac
Detail from Ma Lin’s Landscape with Flying Geese: a scholar with a staff and an attendant stand on a low bank of grass and rock, a range of hills fades into blank silk behind them, and a line of geese crosses the upper air.

The Geese Go First

處暑

23 AUG 2026 150° 16 / 24

Ma Lin (Chinese, c. 1185–after 1260) Landscape with Flying Geese
Southern Song dynasty, mid-1200s Cleveland Museum of Art 1952.285 CC0

The year

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  5. 驚蟄 — no plate yet
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  7. 清明
  8. 穀雨
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  20. 霜降
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The terms are computed from the sun’s apparent longitude.

The Three ClocksAn interactive seasonal installation

A Roof Makes a Room

清明

4 APR 2026 15° 7 / 24

Unidentified artist A Pavilion
Southern Song dynasty, 1127–1279 Cleveland Museum of Art 1915.705 CC0

Where the Water Widens

穀雨

20 APR 2026 30° 8 / 24

Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) River Village: Fisherman’s Joy
Yuan dynasty, c. 1302–03 Cleveland Museum of Art 1978.66 CC0

A Grove Floats on Its Mist

霜降

23 OCT 2026 210° 20 / 24

Li Anzhong (Chinese, active first half of the 1100s) Cottages in a Misty Grove in Autumn
Northern Song dynasty, dated 1117 Cleveland Museum of Art 1963.588 CC0

Why this

The season is shared. The response is not.
Nine ways a body meets it.
The structure is inherited; the magnitude is measured.

See how we test itSee how it becomes guidance

Built on the Dao Living Framework.