Birthday poem · October 10Cold Dew, the 17th solar term: temperatures drop and the dew turns cold.
Birth character
野 yě · open fields
野 means the open country outside a town.
野火燒不盡
“Wildfire never quite consumes them” — Bai Juyi, ‘Grass on the Ancient Plain: A Farewell’
Other dates with this poem: December 13
The poem
“Crossing Jingmen” 渡荊門送別
- 山隨平野盡The mountains end with the level plain;
- 江入大荒流the river flows into the wide wilderness.
- 月下飛天鏡Under the moon, a flying mirror from heaven;
- 雲生結海樓clouds rise, building towers over the sea.
Why this poem
Li Bai leaves Sichuan; the river runs out into open plains.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Cold Dew.