# Sekkicho: 72 Seasons Calendar — 72 Pentads in Song Paintings

> 72 Pentads in Song Paintings (iPhone/iPad app by JIEYU WANG.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sekkicho-72-seasons-calendar/id6822772393 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [JIEYU WANG](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778790582)
- Category: Reference, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 62 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-15
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Sekkicho?

One painting for each turn of the year.

Sekkicho is an almanac of China's 24 solar terms and 72 pentads (qīshí'èr hòu) — the five-day seasons ancient China used to read the year. In English and Chinese, every pentad follows the Yuan-dynasty "Collected Commentaries on the 72 Pentads" by Wu Cheng, and each has its own painting in the manner of Song-dynasty genre scrolls.

■ Now
Today's pentad fills the screen: rivers flow; blossoms, leaves, rain and snow drift through the scene. Swipe up and the paper rises with:
• The Collected Commentaries, in the original classical Chinese with English
• Living with the season — rest, diet, mood and movement, drawn from the Huangdi Neijing and Gao Lian's "Eight Discourses on Nurturing Life" (cultural knowledge, not medical advice)
• What people do — customs from the Jingchu Suishi Ji, Dongjing Menghua Lu and Mengliang Lu; anything without a classical source is marked "folk custom"
• Seasonal table — foods of the season, each with its source
• Today's almanac — Chinese lunar date, stems and branches, zodiac animal, moon age, Beijing sunrise and sunset

■ Scroll
All 72 paintings joined into one handscroll. Drag through the year; past Greater Cold it rolls straight on into the Start of Spring, round and round. Drag the year bar to jump to any season.

■ Seals
Press one seal for each pentad as it comes. Seventy-two seals make a year — your own seasonal book, kept only on your device.

■ Calendar
A 2025–2032 calendar with Chinese lunar dates, stems and branches, zodiac animals, traditional festivals and Beijing sunrise and sunset, all reckoned in Beijing time.

■ Also
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Optional pentad-change notices, scheduled on the device
• English / 中文 / 日本語 (the Japanese interface shows Japan's own 72 seasons with Edo-period genre paintings)

No account, no ads, no purchases, no data collection. Works fully offline.

## Is Sekkicho safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Sekkicho.

## Is Sekkicho legit?

Sekkicho: 72 Seasons Calendar appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sekkicho is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-01

1.2
• New widgets: today's painting with the pentad's name brushed on it, in small, medium and large
• Each pentad now has a line of poetry, one thing to do, and its colour
• Traditional Chinese
• Widgets follow the language you choose in the app

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-29

1.1.1
• A new app icon
• A short welcome guide on first launch, where you can press your first seal
• Pentad names now appear in brush-written title slips
• Opened from the Scroll, a pentad's page now reveals its notes and its solar term as you swipe up
• Moving between pentads now dissolves gently instead of reloading
• Fixed the tab bar sometimes not responding to taps
• Smoother scrolling on the Scroll and Now pages, with no more snapping back

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-28

1.1 — The year in paintings
• Every one of the 72 pentads now has its own painting
• Redesigned around three tabs: Now, Scroll and Seals
• An endless handscroll of the year, and a seal book to collect each pentad
• A calendar with Chinese lunar dates and Beijing sunrise and sunset
• English and Chinese now present China's 72 pentads from the Collected Commentaries, with Song-style paintings, seasonal living notes, customs and a seasonal table
• Fixed a few solar-term dates that showed one day early

### 1.0 — 2026-10-15

No release notes.

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