Birthday poem · February 5Start of Spring, the 1st solar term: spring begins in the traditional calendar.
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’
The poem
“Quatrain” 絶句
- 遲日江山麗In the late spring sun, river and hills are lovely;
- 春風花草香the spring wind carries the scent of flowers and grass.
- 泥融飛燕子The mud is soft; swallows fly;
- 沙暖睡鴛鴦the sand is warm; mandarin ducks sleep.
Why this poem
Du Fu on spring: "long days, lovely hills and rivers; spring wind, scented flowers".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Spring.