Birthday poem · April 5Qingming, the season of spring outings, in the Clear and Bright period.
Birth character
明 míng · bright
明 puts 日 "sun" beside 月 "moon"; it means bright.
明月松間照
“Bright moon shines through the pines” — Wang Wei, ‘Autumn Evening in the Mountains’
The poem
“A Country Walk” 郊行卽事
- 芳原綠野恣行時I roam at will over fragrant plains and green fields;
- 春入遙山碧四圍spring has reached the distant hills, blue all around.
- 況是清明好天氣And it's Qingming, with such fine weather —
- 不妨遊衍莫忘歸why not wander on, and forget to go home?
Why this poem
Cheng Hao on a Qingming outing: enjoy it, but remember to go home.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Clear and Bright. Near Qingming, the season of spring outings.