Birthday poem · April 2Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.
Birth character
青 qīng · green-blue
青 means blue-green, the colour of new plants and clear sky.
青山橫北郭
“Green mountains bar the northern sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’
The poem
“Fisherman's Song” 漁歌子
- 西塞山前白鷺飛Before Xisai Mountain the white egrets fly;
- 桃花流水鱖魚肥peach petals on the stream, the mandarin fish are fat.
- 青箬笠A blue bamboo hat,
- 綠蓑衣a green straw cape —
- 斜風細雨不須歸in slanting wind and fine rain, no need to go home.
Why this poem
Zhang Zhihe on a fisherman in wind and drizzle, in no hurry to go home.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Spring Equinox.