Birthday poem · March 3Rain Water, the 2nd solar term: snow gives way to rain.
Birth character
桃 táo · peach
桃 combines 木 "tree" with 兆 as a sound element; it means peach.
桃花潭水深千尺
“The Lake of Peach Blossom is a thousand fathoms deep” — Li Bai, ‘For Wang Lun’
The poem
“The Peach Tree Is Young” 桃夭
- 桃之夭夭The peach tree is young and lovely,
- 灼灼其華its blossoms bright and blazing.
- 之子于歸This girl is going to her new home;
- 宜其室家she will bring harmony to her house.
Why this poem
The Book of Songs "Peach Tree", a wedding song for a bride.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Rain Water.