Birthday poem · May 29Grain Buds, the 8th solar term: wheat and barley begin to fill.
Birth character
花 huā · flower
花 means a flower; the older form was 華.
花落知多少
“How many are the fallen flowers!” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
Other dates with this poem: August 6
The poem
“Written on the Wall of Mr Huyin” 書湖陰先生壁
- 茅簷長掃淨無苔Under thatched eaves, swept so often, no moss grows;
- 花木成畦手自栽flowers and trees in neat beds, planted by his own hand.
- 一水護田將綠繞A stream guards the fields, wrapping them in green;
- 兩山排闥送青來two hills push open the door to send in their blue.
Why this poem
Wang Anshi writes on a friend's wall: a stream circles the green fields.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Buds.