Birthday poem · August 11Start of Autumn, the 13th solar term: autumn begins in the traditional calendar.

Birthday poem card for August 11: “Gazing at Mount Tai” by Du Fu. Birth character 青, green-blue.
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Birth character

青 qīng · green-blue

青 means blue-green, the colour of new plants and clear sky.

青山橫北郭
“Green mountains bar the northern sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’

Other dates with this poem: October 13

The poem

“Gazing at Mount Tai” 望嶽

  1. 岱宗夫如何And Mount Tai — what is it like?
  2. 齊魯青未了Over Qi and Lu its green never ends.
  3. 會當凌絶頂One day I will stand upon its very summit
  4. 一覽衆山小and see how small all other mountains are.

Du Fu 杜甫 · Tang dynasty · 712–770 · five-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Du Fu, young, gazing at Mount Tai and resolving to climb to its top.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Start of Autumn.

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