Birthday poem · March 25Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.

Birthday poem card for March 25: “Drunk Beneath the Flowers” by Li Shangyin. Birth character 酒, wine.
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Birth character

酒 jiǔ · wine

酒 puts 水 "water" beside 酉, a wine jar; it means wine.

勸君更盡一杯酒
“I urge you to drink another cup of wine again” — Wang Wei, ‘Farewell to Yuan Er on His Mission to Anxi’

The poem

“Drunk Beneath the Flowers” 花下醉

  1. 尋芳不覺醉流霞Seeking blossoms, I got drunk on rosy wine without knowing it;
  2. 倚樹沉眠日已斜leaning on a tree, I slept deeply till the sun was low.
  3. 客散酒醒深夜後The guests gone, I sober up deep in the night,
  4. 更持紅燭賞殘花and take a red candle to admire the last of the flowers.

Li Shangyin 李商隱 · Tang dynasty · c. 813–858 · seven-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Li Shangyin falls asleep drunk among flowers and wakes at night to view them by candle.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Spring Equinox.

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