Birthday poem · March 30Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.
Birth character
鶯 yīng · oriole
鶯 is the oriole, known for its song in spring.
草長鶯飛二月天
“Grass grows, orioles fly — the second month” — Gao Ding, ‘Village Life’
The poem
“Spring in Jiangnan” 江南春
- 千里鶯啼綠映紅qiān lǐ yīng tí lǜ yìng hóngFor miles and miles orioles sing amid red blooms and green trees;
- 水村山郭酒旗風shuǐ cūn shān guō jiǔ qí fēngBy hills and shores wine shop banners wave in the breeze.
- 南朝四百八十寺nán cháo sì bǎi bā shí sìFour hundred eighty temples of Southern Dynasties,
- 多少樓臺煙雨中duō shǎo lóu tái yān yǔ zhōngHow many towers and terraces in mist and rain one sees!
Why this poem
Du Mu on spring south of the Yangtze and old temples in the misty rain.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Spring Equinox.