Qingming,
gentle rain.
The continuous rain seems like a tender waterside girl, stopping, gazing, pausing, waiting, and looking back;
it is also like a fine rain veil draped over the sky,
moistening a group of people, drenching a city.
Inside the Empress Dowager's Yuxin Palace, the green in the pond is already prominent.
Unlike other nobles who love luxury, the Empress Dowager of Chu has always been of a frugal nature. Every winter, many grand noble residences in the Chu State invariably have one or two greenhouses, like spring throughout the year, yet the Empress Dowager of Chu doesn't like it that way.
In her words,
a person,
as they age,
starts to pay more and more attention to the changes of the seasons;
when young, ignorant; when grown, insensitive; when older, busy; only upon reaching old age, turning back suddenly, one is shocked at having missed so much.
