Birthday poem · April 7Clear and Bright, the 5th solar term: the weather warms and plants turn green.
Birth character
江 jiāng · river
江 combines 水 "water" with 工 as a sound element; it once meant the Yangtze.
唯見長江天際流
“Where I see but the endless River rolling by.” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower’
The poem
“Strolling by the River V” 江畔獨步尋花 其五
- 黃師塔前江水東Before Huangshi Pagoda the river flows east;
- 春光懶困倚微風spring light, lazy and drowsy, leans on the breeze.
- 桃花一簇開無主A cluster of peach blossom blooms with no owner —
- 可愛深紅愛淺紅shall I love the deep red, or the pale red?
Why this poem
Du Fu looks at peach blossom by the river: is deep red or pale red lovelier?
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Clear and Bright.