Birthday poem · February 17Start of Spring, the 1st solar term: spring begins in the traditional calendar.
Birth character
雲 yún · cloud
雲 means cloud; the older form 云 shows swirling vapour.
白雲生處有人家
“Where rise white clouds, there appear cottages and bowers.” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
The poem
“Early Spring Excursion” 和晋陵陸丞早春遊望
- 雲霞出海曙Clouds and dawn colours come out of the sea;
- 梅柳渡江春plum and willow cross the river, and it's spring.
Why this poem
Du Shenyan on early spring south of the Yangtze: plum and willow cross the river.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Spring.