Birthday poem · September 18Moon-viewing season, in the White Dew period.

Birthday poem card for September 18: “Mid-Autumn” by Li Pu. Birth character 千, thousand.
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Birth character

千 qiān · thousand

千 is the number one thousand, and is also used to mean "very many".

千山鳥飛絕
“From hill to hill no bird in flight” — Liu Zongyuan, ‘River Snow’

The poem

“Mid-Autumn” 中秋

  1. 皓魄當空寶鏡升The bright orb mounts the sky, a precious mirror rising;
  2. 雲間仙籟寂無聲among the clouds, immortal music falls silent.
  3. 平分秋色一輪滿It splits the autumn evenly, one perfect circle,
  4. 長伴雲衢千里明lighting the road of clouds a thousand miles.

Li Pu 李朴 · Northern Song dynasty · 1063–1127 · seven-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

The full mid-autumn moon divides the season and lights a thousand miles.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: White Dew. Near moon-viewing season.

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