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3 Yuan Twenty-Four Solar Terms-Stories, Start of Spring
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 3 Yuan (3元, 叁圓) |
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| Reverse description | A stylized cartoon tiger, rendered with colorized enamel accents in orange and black stripes, rides atop a smiling ox whose saddle cloth bears the character 春 (Spring), depicted in a lively folk-art style against a holographic pearl-lustre field suggesting a landscape of rolling hills. In the lower field, two carp leap upward through an icy river rendered in relief, symbolizing the awakening of nature at the Start of Spring. Stylized clouds frame the upper corners of the square flan. The denomination 3元 appears in the lower left field, and the inscription 立春 (Start of Spring) is inscribed in the upper right corner in Chinese characters. |
| Reverse script | Chinese |
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The Twenty-Four Solar Terms — a system for dividing the solar year developed in the Han dynasty and codified over two millennia of agricultural practice — were inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016. China's mint has issued coins commemorating individual terms across multiple series since then, each tied to a specific moment in the lunisolar calendar. Start of Spring, or *Lìchūn*, falls around February 4th and marks the theoretical end of winter regardless of actual temperature.
The "Stories" subseries within this broader program pairs each term with associated folk customs rather than purely astronomical symbolism — in this case, the tradition of *yíng chūn*, the ceremonial welcoming of spring.