Birthday poem · November 10Start of Winter, the 19th solar term: winter begins.
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: June 5
The poem
“Deer Park” 鹿柴
- 空山不見人kōng shān bù jiàn rénThere seems to be no one on the empty mountain…
- 但聞人語響dàn wén rén yǔ xiǎngAnd yet I think I hear a voice,
- 返景入深林fǎn yǐng rù shēn línWhere sunlight, entering a grove,
- 復照青苔上fù zhào qīng tái shàngShines back to me from the green moss.
Why this poem
Wang Wei: voices in an empty mountain, evening light on the moss.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Winter.