Birthday poem · March 10Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.
Birth character
笑 xiào · smile
笑 means to smile or laugh.
桃花依舊笑春風
“The peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.” — Cui Hu, ‘Written at a Villa South of the Capital’
The poem
“Written at a Villa South of the Capital” 題都城南莊
- 去年今日此門中Last year, on this day, at this gate,
- 人面桃花相映紅a face and the peach blossoms shone red on each other.
- 人面不知何處去The face — I don't know where it has gone;
- 桃花依舊笑春風the peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.
Why this poem
Cui Hu: "her face and the peach blossom reflected each other's red", on returning to a place.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Awakening of Insects.