Birthday poem · June 2Grain Buds, the 8th solar term: wheat and barley begin to fill.
Birth character
樹 shù · tree
樹 first meant to plant; it came to mean a tree.
碧玉妝成一樹高
“The slender beauty's dressed in emerald all about” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: August 3
The poem
“Easing the Heart by the Water Rail” 水檻遣心
- 澄江平少岸The clear river, level, its banks hardly showing;
- 幽樹晚多花the quiet trees, late in the day, full of flowers.
- 細雨魚兒出In the fine rain, little fish come up;
- 微風燕子斜in the light breeze, swallows slant.
Why this poem
Du Fu by the river: fish surface in drizzle, swallows slant in the breeze.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Buds.