24 Solar Terms Мобиль кушымта иллюстрациясе

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Unique Properties

A simple and intuitive way to introduce the historical accumulation of China's 24 solar terms to 600 million monthly active users in a search scenario in the form of traditional Chinese dynamic illustrations, with an aggregation function to quickly browse all knowledge related to the solar terms.

Dimensions & Packaging

Dynamic 24 can be adapted to all sizes of mobile screens and works well

Tags

Baidu App, Traditional 24 Solar Terms, Chinese Non Tangible Cultural Heritage, The Humanistic Aesthetic Delivery

Production Technology

Implementation of technical material. Leveraging the dynamic search result page capability of the Baidu APP product to go live as a dynamic illustration.

Design Challenge

Our experience design is charged with social responsibility, technological advancement, national development and the transmission of humanistic aesthetics, making the culture accessible to all users is a difficult challenge. By digitally representing the twenty four solar terms combined with ancient traditional techniques in vivid and dynamic images in the search results of the Baidu App, we visually show this great intangible cultural heritage to hundreds of millions of search users.

Research

We used many research tools during the project. Industry pr-study, braining and interviews were used to identify features and innovation. For the design we recovered the ancient way of dividing the fests into 4 types: Season, Temp, Weather and Biology, and show the impact on people, animals and changes in nature. While we resorted ancient Chinese colors and painting skills. It allows Baidu users to know Chinese culture while having fun. It is a break from the old boring textual form.

Inspiration

Ancient Chinese scholars divided the solar year into 24 periods of essentially equal length, it guided the agricultural production of the ancient Chinese. Till today, it guides the lives and traditions of Chinese as China's ICH. Baidu is a full content and service App with information and knowledge. We designed with social responsibility, technological progress, national development and the passing of cultural aesthetics. We visually present this great ICH to users by vivid and dynamic images.

Project Duration

October 2021, within the Baidu App side

Operation Flow

The set is already live in the search engine of the Baidu App, where users can search for the name of the festival or keywords to reach the page. With 3 visual upgrades, users are not only able to see the animation effects, but also to quickly flip through all the festival content via the aggregated section at the bottom. Combined with videos, news and information, encyclopedia entries, etc. to provide users with high quality content.

Patents

Copyrights belong to Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd

Image Credits

Copyrights belong to Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd