Birthday poem · January 7Minor Cold, the 23rd solar term: the weather turns colder.
Birth character
日 rì · sun
日 is a picture of the sun; it means sun or day.
白日依山盡
“The sun beyond the mountains glows” — Wang Zhihuan, ‘Climbing Stork Tower’
Other dates with this poem: April 27
The poem
“Partridge Sky” 鷓鴣天
- 陌上柔桑破嫩芽On the lanes the soft mulberry breaks into tender buds;
- 東鄰蠶種已生些the silkworm eggs next door have begun to hatch.
- 平岡細草鳴黃犢On the low hill a yellow calf lowes in the fine grass;
- 斜日寒林點暮鴉the slanting sun dots the cold woods with evening crows.
Why this poem
Xin Qiji on a village in early spring: new mulberry buds, calves lowing.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Cold.