Shenzhong Kaihua (慎重開華)

How can I let you meet me at my most beautiful moment? For this, I prayed before the Buddha for five hundred years, begging him to grant us a bond in this mortal world. So the Buddha turned me into a tree, growing beside the path you must pass. In the sunlight it carefully bloomed full of flowers, each blossom a hope from my past life. When you draw near, listen closely — those trembling leaves are the passion of my waiting. From Hsi Muren's "A Blooming Tree". This is a love poem the poet wrote to nature, and we borrow it to express the spirit with which we welcome our guests. You are the traveler; I am the tree. Because meeting is not easy, we are deliberate; hoping to form a bond, we bloom. For you, I carefully bloom.