Birthday poem · March 19Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.

Birthday poem card for March 19: “Spring on the Lake” by Bai Juyi. Birth character 波, wave.
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Birth character

波 bō · wave

波 combines 水 "water" with 皮 as a sound element; it means a wave.

水是眼波橫
“The water is the sideways glance of her eyes” — Wang Guan, ‘Bu Suan Zi: Farewell’

The poem

“Spring on the Lake” 春題湖上

  1. 湖上春來似畫圖Spring on the lake looks like a painting;
  2. 亂峰圍繞水平鋪jagged peaks surround the level water.
  3. 松排山面千重翠Pines line the hillsides in a thousand layers of green;
  4. 月點波心一顆珠the moon dots the heart of the waves, a single pearl.

Bai Juyi 白居易 · Tang dynasty · 772–846 · seven-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Bai Juyi on West Lake in spring, the moon like a pearl on the water.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Awakening of Insects.

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