Birthday poem · March 10Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.

Birthday poem card for March 10: “Written at a Villa South of the Capital” by Cui Hu. Birth character 笑, smile.

Birth character

笑 xiào · smile

笑 means to smile or laugh.

桃花依舊笑春風
“The peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.” — Cui Hu, ‘Written at a Villa South of the Capital’

The poem

“Written at a Villa South of the Capital” 題都城南莊

  1. 去年今日此門中Last year, on this day, at this gate,
  2. 人面桃花相映紅a face and the peach blossoms shone red on each other.
  3. 人面不知何處去The face — I don't know where it has gone;
  4. 桃花依舊笑春風the peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.

Cui Hu 崔護 · Tang dynasty · fl. c. 796 · seven-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Cui Hu: "her face and the peach blossom reflected each other's red", on returning to a place.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Awakening of Insects.

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