Birthday poem · November 20Start of Winter, the 19th solar term: winter begins.
Birth character
風 fēng · wind
風 means wind.
二月春風似剪刀
“The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: January 30
The poem
“For General Hua” 贈花卿
- 錦城絲管日紛紛In Brocade City, strings and pipes play day after day,
- 半入江風半入雲half into the river wind, half into the clouds.
- 此曲祗應天上有Such music belongs only in heaven —
- 人間能得幾回聞how many times can one hear it on earth?
Why this poem
Du Fu on music in Chengdu: "such a tune belongs in heaven".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Winter.