Picture credit: National Palace Museum, Taipei
羣芳爛漫盛三春。
更有名花步後塵。
紅萼舒香縈翠蔓。
風酣雨醒倍清新。[1]
穀雨二候荼蘪
As the profusion of blossoms comes to full bloom in late spring,
Yet another celebrated flower follows in their footsteps.
[Its] red petals diffuse fragrance in lush entangling vines,
Growing mellow in the wind and awakened by the rain, emerging fresher than ever.
The second pentad after Grain Rain: roseleaf raspberry (Rubus coronarius)
紫絲暈粉綴英繁。
晚客欣逢廿四番。
鼓盪陽和敷品彙。
披圖省歲治功存。
丁卯立春御題
穀雨三候楝花
Purple strings and pink tints decorating a multitude of flowers,
[This] late arriver gladly joins the sequence of twenty-four.[2]
Strewing vernal warmth across all sorts [of flowers],
Theses paintings are laid out for understanding the year, eventually with merits for governance.
Inscribed by the imperial hand during the [solar term] Beginning of Spring of the dingmao year [1807]
The third pentad after Grain Rain: chinaberry tree blossoms (Melia azedarach)
[1] Coloured characters rhyme. [2] This refers to the set of twenty-four flower-message winds, the subject matter of this album. As this is the last poem in the series, the final lines summarise the significance of the whole album.
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