Birthday poem · March 17Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.
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
“After the Rain” 雨晴
- 雨前初見花間蕊Before the rain I saw the first buds among the flowers;
- 雨後兼無葉裏花after the rain, not even a flower among the leaves.
- 蛺蝶飛來過牆去Butterflies fly over and cross the wall —
- 却疑春色在鄰家I suspect the spring is now at the neighbour's.
Why this poem
Wang Jia: after rain the flowers are gone and butterflies cross the wall, as if spring moved next door.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Awakening of Insects.