Birthday poem · April 27Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
Birth character
林 lín · forest
林 is two trees side by side; it means a wood or forest.
停車坐愛楓林晚
“I stop my cab in maple woods to gaze my fill” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
Other dates with this poem: January 7
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: Grain Rain.