Birthday poem · March 18Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.
Birth character
日 rì · sun
日 is a picture of the sun; it means sun or day.
白日依山盡
“The sun beyond the mountains glows” — Wang Zhihuan, ‘Climbing Stork Tower’
The poem
“Rural Life in Four Seasons (Spring)” 四時田園雜興
- 蝴蝶雙雙入菜花Butterflies in pairs flit into the rapeseed flowers;
- 日長無客到田家the days are long and no guest comes to the farm.
- 鷄飛過籬犬吠竇A hen flies over the fence, the dog barks at the hole —
- 知有行商來買茶a pedlar must have come to buy our tea.
Why this poem
Fan Chengda on a spring farm: butterflies in rapeseed flowers, chickens and dogs.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Awakening of Insects.