Birthday poem · May 19Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.
Birth character
風 fēng · wind
風 means wind.
二月春風似剪刀
“The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: July 21
The poem
“Boating Past Anren” 舟過安仁
- 一葉漁船兩小童A little fishing boat with two small boys;
- 收篙停棹坐船中they've put away the pole and oars and sit in the boat.
- 怪生無雨都張傘No wonder they've opened an umbrella with no rain —
- 不是遮頭是使風it's not to cover their heads, but to catch the wind.
Why this poem
Yang Wanli on two boys who open an umbrella with no rain, to catch the wind.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Summer.