Melancholy Mid-Autumn Burden Poster

Goal: Create a minimalist Chinese Mid-Autumn themed poster with restrained anxiety and late-autumn melancholy, combining vintage printmaking, surreal burden imagery, and bold typography.

Canvas: Vertical portrait poster, 3:4 ratio, aged warm ivory paper background with visible grain, scratches, faded stains, and slightly darkened worn edges.

Layout: A grayscale adult male figure is seen from behind in the lower half of the poster, bent forward under weight, head mostly hidden between two oversized orange-red cubic blocks resting on his shoulders and hands. The composition is centered but slightly bottom-heavy, with large empty negative space above. At the top center, place one narrow vertical column of small black Chinese text.

Subject details: The man wears a worn, dusty long-sleeved jacket rendered in gritty black-and-white photographic halftone texture. His left hand supports the bottom of the left block, and his right arm supports the right block. His posture should feel strained, quiet, and resigned rather than dramatic.

Counted visible elements: exactly 2 large orange-red cubes; exactly 2 large carved Chinese characters, one on each cube; exactly 1 human figure; exactly 1 vertical text column at the top. The left cube contains the character “团” in a thick geometric cutout style, and the right cube contains the character “圆” in the same cutout style. The top vertical text reads {argument name="top vertical text" default="Tonight we gaze at the moon / quietly awaiting reunion"}.

Visual style: 1960s–1980s Chinese propaganda-poster influence mixed with modern surreal editorial design, risograph and silkscreen texture, muted burnt orange blocks, charcoal grayscale figure, rough ink edges, distressed paper, subtle misregistration, flat graphic shadows, quiet poetic mood.

Text and typography: Use tall, delicate, vertically arranged Chinese characters for the small top text; use massive blocky, architectural Chinese characters carved into the cubes for {argument name="left cube character" default="Reunion"} and {argument name="right cube character" default="Circle"}. Keep the typography legible and central to the symbolism.

Constraints: No moon illustration, no lanterns, no extra people, no modern city background, no decorative border, no watermark. Keep the image sparse, solemn, and symbolic.