春生，夏长，秋收，冬藏

sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom)

old variant of 春[chun1]

surname Chun

spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC / Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432) / surname Xia

summer

length / long / forever / always / constantly

chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

autumn / fall / harvest time

old variant of 秋[qiu1]

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

fall harvest / to reap

to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)

winter

surname Dong

(onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat

Tibet / abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]

to conceal / to hide away / to harbor / to store / to collect

storehouse / depository / Buddhist or Taoist scripture