乙卯 is 1075 in the sixty-year cycle.
苏轼, then prefect of Mizhou in Shandong, dreamed of his first wife
王弗, who had died in 1065 at twenty-six, and wrote what is often called the greatest mourning poem in Chinese. It opens
十年生死两茫茫，
不思量，
自难忘。 'Ten years, the living and the dead, both lost in a haze. I do not try to remember, yet I cannot forget.'
