Birthday poem · July 18Minor Heat, the 11th solar term: the heat begins.
Birth character
泉 quán · spring, fountain
泉 is a picture of water coming out from rock; it means a spring.
清泉石上流
“Clear spring water runs over the stones.” — Wang Wei, ‘Autumn Evening in the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: May 13
The poem
“Seeing Off Prefect Li of Zizhou” 送梓州李使君
- 萬壑樹參天In ten thousand valleys the trees reach the sky;
- 千山響杜鵑in a thousand hills the cuckoos call.
- 山中一夜雨After a night of rain in the mountains,
- 樹杪百重泉from the treetops, a hundred streams of falling water.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on Sichuan hills after night rain, with a hundred streams from the treetops.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Heat.