Birthday poem · March 28Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.
Birth character
花 huā · flower
花 means a flower; the older form was 華.
花落知多少
“How many are the fallen flowers!” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
The poem
“Magnolia Bank” 辛夷塢
- 木末芙蓉花At the tips of the branches, lotus-like magnolias
- 山中發紅萼put out red buds in the mountains.
- 澗戶寂無人By the stream the hut is silent, no one there;
- 紛紛開且落one after another they bloom and fall.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on magnolia by a mountain stream, blooming and falling unseen.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Spring Equinox.