Birthday poem · April 6Clear and Bright, the 5th solar term: the weather warms and plants turn green.
Birth character
春 chūn · spring
春 shows plants sprouting under the sun; it means spring.
春眠不覺曉
“This spring morning in bed I'm lying” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
The poem
“Jade Tower Spring” 玉樓春
- 東城漸覺風光好East of the city I begin to feel the scenery turn fine;
- 縠皺波紋迎客棹crinkled ripples welcome the oars of visitors.
- 綠楊煙外曉寒輕Beyond the misty green willows, the dawn chill is light;
- 紅杏枝頭春意鬧on the red apricot branches, spring is bustling.
Why this poem
Song Qi on spring east of the city, with the famous line on red apricot blossom.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Clear and Bright.