Birthday poem · December 31New Year's Eve, in the Winter Solstice period.

Birthday poem card for December 31: “New Year's Eve” by Shi Qing. Birth character 春, spring.
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Birth character

春 chūn · spring

春 shows plants sprouting under the sun; it means spring.

春眠不覺曉
“This spring morning in bed I'm lying” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’

Other dates with this poem: February 3

The poem

“New Year's Eve” 應詔賦得除夜

  1. 今歲今宵盡This year ends with this very night;
  2. 明年明日催next year, tomorrow, comes hurrying on.
  3. 寒隨一夜去The cold leaves with this one night;
  4. 春逐五更來spring follows at the fifth watch.

Shi Qing 史青 · Tang dynasty · fl. late 7th c. · five-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

New Year's Eve: the old year ends and spring is about to begin.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Winter Solstice. Near New Year's Eve.

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