Birthday poem · May 26Grain Buds, the 8th solar term: wheat and barley begin to fill.
Birth character
色 sè · colour
色 first meant the colour of a face; it came to mean colour and scenery.
春色滿園關不住
“But the spring that fills the garden can't be locked in” — Ye Shaoweng, ‘Visiting a Garden, No One Home’
Other dates with this poem: August 2
The poem
“A Quiet Matter” 書事
- 輕陰閣小雨A light overcast holds the drizzle;
- 深院晝慵開deep in the courtyard, too lazy to open the gate by day.
- 坐看蒼苔色I sit and look at the colour of the green moss —
- 欲上人衣來it seems about to climb onto my clothes.
Why this poem
Wang Wei sits indoors after rain and watches the moss seem to climb onto his clothes.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Buds.