Birthday poem · May 2Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.

Birthday poem card for May 2: “Song of Pure Peace III” by Li Bai. Birth character 笑, smile.
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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

“Song of Pure Peace III” 清平調 其三

  1. 名花傾國兩相歡The famous flower and the city-toppling beauty delight in each other,
  2. 常得君王帶笑看and win the smiling gaze of the emperor always.

Li Bai 李白 · Tang dynasty · 701–762 · seven-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

The third of Li Bai's "Qingping Songs": famous flowers and a beauty set side by side.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Grain Rain.

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