Birthday poem · March 26Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.

Birthday poem card for March 26: “A Mountain Village” by Shao Yong. Birth character 家, home.
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Birth character

家 jiā · home

家 has a roof (宀) at the top; it means a home or household.

白雲生處有人家
“Where rise white clouds, there appear cottages and bowers.” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’

The poem

“A Mountain Village” 山村詠懷

  1. 一去二三里Going out two or three li,
  2. 煙村四五家a misty village of four or five homes,
  3. 亭臺六七座six or seven pavilions and terraces,
  4. 八九十枝花eight, nine, ten sprays of flowers.

Shao Yong 邵雍 · Northern Song dynasty · 1011–1077 · five-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Shao Yong counts from one to ten in a picture of a village, a primer poem for children.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Spring Equinox.

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