Poetry of Spring #3 Spring is colorful!

(Title)

chūn rì

春 日

(Author) zhū xī

          ----朱 熹

shèng rì xún fāng sì shuǐ bīn，wú biān guāng jǐng yī shí xīn。
胜日寻芳泗水滨，无边光景一时新。

děng xián shí dé dōng fēng miàn，wàn zǐ qiān hóng zǒng shì chūn。
等闲识得东风面，万紫千红总是春。

(Translation)

春日: spring time

胜日: sunny days

寻芳: go onto a field trip, it's common for ancient Chinese poets to go out and enjoy the spring in the wild

泗水: Si River, a river in Shandong Province

滨: edge of the river

无边: meaning that the field was so big that you cannot see the limit/edge

光景: scenery

一时新: take on a completely new look

等闲: easy

识得: can recognize

东风: wind blowing from the east, referring to the wind of spring

面: appearance

万/千: meaning a lot

紫/红: purple/red, referring to colorful flowers

总是: always

(Appreciation)

On a sunny day in spring, I went out onto a field trip next to the Si River. The field was so big that I could not see the edge of it. Since spring time, the scenery had completely changed and now it looked so refreshing! It's easy to recognize the change that the spring wind had brought to this field. So many colorful flowers were blooming, suggesting that spring was here!