Birthday poem · May 4Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
Birth character
山 shān · mountain
山 is a picture of three peaks; it means mountain.
只緣身在此山中
“For we are lost in the heart of the very place.” — Su Shi, ‘Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple’
The poem
“Lanxi Boat Song” 蘭溪棹歌
- 涼月如眉掛柳灣A cool moon like an eyebrow hangs over the willow bay;
- 越中山色鏡中看the hills of Yue are seen as in a mirror.
- 蘭溪三日桃花雨After three days of peach-blossom rain on Lanxi,
- 半夜鯉魚來上灘at midnight the carp come up onto the shoals.
Why this poem
Dai Shulun on Lanxi after spring rain; carp swim up to the shallows at night.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Rain.