Birthday poem · January 30Major Cold, the 24th solar term: the coldest time of the year.
Birth character
錦 jǐn · brocade
錦 combines 帛 "silk" with 金 as a sound element; it means brocade.
花重錦官城
“The town's heavy with blooms.” — Du Fu, ‘Happy Rain on a Spring Night’
Other dates with this poem: November 20
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: Major Cold.