Birthday poem · March 9Awakening of Insects, the 3rd solar term: the first thunder; insects stir.
Birth character
晴 qíng · clear sky
晴 combines 日 "sun" with 青 as a sound element; it means the sky clearing after rain.
晴空一鶴排雲上
“On a fine day a crane cleaves the clouds and soars high” — Liu Yuxi, ‘Autumn Song’
The poem
“Asking a Guest to Stay on a Mountain Walk” 山行留客
- 山光物態弄春暉The mountain light and all things play in the spring sun;
- 莫爲輕陰便擬歸don't think of leaving just because of a little cloud.
- 縱使晴明無雨色Even if it's clear and bright with no sign of rain,
- 入雲深處亦沾衣deep in the clouds your clothes will still get wet.
Why this poem
Zhang Xu persuades a guest to stay: even deep in the clouds, clothes get wet.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Awakening of Insects.