Birthday poem · June 8Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
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: December 11
The poem
“Bamboo and Rock” 竹石
- 咬定青山不放松It bites hard into the green mountain and won't let go,
- 立根原在破岩中its roots set deep in a crack of broken rock.
- 千磨萬擊還堅勁Ground down a thousand times, struck ten thousand, still firm and strong —
- 任爾東西南北風let the wind blow from east, west, south or north.
Why this poem
Zheng Xie on bamboo rooted in cracked rock, standing firm in winds from every side.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.