The spring trees outside the window have already sprouted new buds.
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渭北春树,江东日暮 is from Du Fu's 《春日忆李白》 — the 'spring trees' and 'sunset clouds' evoke the thousand-mile distance between Du Fu and his absent friend Li Bai.
culture
In Japanese, the same two characters read Haruki (春樹) — the given name of novelist Murakami Haruki (村上春树), whose Chinese fans often spot this word in their own poetry.