Birthday poem · April 28Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
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’
Other dates with this poem: January 24
The poem
“Late Spring” 晚春
- 草樹知春不久歸Grass and trees know spring will soon be gone,
- 百般紅紫鬥芳菲so reds and purples vie in every kind of bloom.
- 楊花榆莢無才思Willow catkins and elm seeds, having no such art,
- 惟解漫天作雪飛can only fill the sky, flying like snow.
Why this poem
Late spring: flowers compete and willow catkins fill the air.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Rain.