Birthday poem · September 21White Dew, the 15th solar term: nights cool and dew forms on the grass.
Birth character
白 bái · white
白 means white, and also clear or plain.
白雲生處有人家
“Where rise white clouds, there appear cottages and bowers.” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
Other dates with this poem: November 21
The poem
“Moss” 苔
- 白日不到處Where the sun never reaches,
- 青春恰自來youth still comes, just in time.
- 苔花如米小Moss flowers, small as grains of rice,
- 也學牡丹開still learn to bloom like the peony.
Why this poem
Yuan Mei: moss flowers are tiny, but they bloom like peonies.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: White Dew.