Birthday poem · April 3The Cold Food Festival season, in the Spring Equinox period.

Birthday poem card for April 3: “Cold Food Day” by Han Hong. Birth character 柳, willow.
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Birth character

柳 liǔ · willow

柳 combines 木 "tree" with a sound element; it means willow.

客舍青青柳色新
“The willows by the tavern look so fresh and green.” — Wang Wei, ‘Farewell to Yuan Er on His Mission to Anxi’

The poem

“Cold Food Day” 寒食

  1. 春城無處不飛花In the spring city, nowhere are petals not flying;
  2. 寒食東風御柳斜on Cold Food Day the east wind bends the palace willows.

Han Hong 韓翃 · Tang dynasty · fl. 754 · seven-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Han Hong on the Cold Food festival in Chang'an: flying petals, palace willows.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Spring Equinox. Near the Cold Food Festival season.

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