Birthday poem · June 19Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
Birth character
笑 xiào · smile
笑 means to smile or laugh.
桃花依舊笑春風
“The peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.” — Cui Hu, ‘Written at a Villa South of the Capital’
Other dates with this poem: August 18
The poem
“Song of the Yue Girl” 越女詞
- 耶溪採蓮女A lotus-picking girl on Ruoye Stream
- 見客棹歌迴sees a stranger and turns her boat, singing.
- 笑入荷花去Laughing, she slips in among the lotus flowers,
- 佯羞不出來and, pretending to be shy, won't come out.
Why this poem
Li Bai on a lotus picker who sees a stranger and hides among the lotus.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.