Birthday poem · April 15Clear and Bright, the 5th solar term: the weather warms and plants turn green.
Birth character
色 sè · colour
色 first meant the colour of a face; it came to mean colour and scenery.
春色滿園關不住
“But the spring that fills the garden can't be locked in” — Ye Shaoweng, ‘Visiting a Garden, No One Home’
The poem
“South of the City” 城南
- 雨過橫塘水滿堤After the rain the Hengtang pond is full to the banks;
- 亂山高下路東西jumbled hills high and low, roads running east and west.
- 一番桃李花開盡The peach and plum blossoms have all bloomed and gone;
- 惟有青青草色齊only the green, green grass grows level and even.
Why this poem
Zeng Gong on the south of the city after rain: peach and plum gone, only grass.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Clear and Bright.