Birthday poem · March 4Rain Water, the 2nd solar term: snow gives way to rain.
Birth character
橋 qiáo · bridge
橋 combines 木 "wood" with 喬 as a sound element; it means bridge.
竹溪村路板橋斜
“By the bamboo stream, the village path, a slanting plank bridge.” — Wang Jian, ‘Rain Passing a Mountain Village’
The poem
“Peach Blossom Stream” 桃花溪
- 隱隱飛橋隔野煙Faintly, a flying bridge beyond the wild mist;
- 石磯西畔問漁船by the rocky shore to the west I ask a fishing boat:
- 桃花盡日隨流水the peach blossoms float all day on the flowing water —
- 洞在清溪何處邊where along the clear stream is the cave?
Why this poem
Zhang Xu on Peach Blossom Stream, borrowing the Peach Blossom Spring story.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Rain Water.