Birthday poem · August 24End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
門 mén · gate
門 is a picture of a two-leaf gate.
拄杖無時夜叩門
“I will tap at your gate with my staff at any hour of night.” — Lu You, ‘Visiting a Village West of the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: January 14
The poem
“Song of Changgan” 長干行
- 妾髮初覆額When my hair first covered my forehead,
- 折花門前劇I played picking flowers before our gate.
- 郎騎竹馬來You came riding a bamboo horse,
- 遶床弄青梅circling the well-rail, playing with green plums.
Why this poem
The opening of Li Bai's "Song of Changgan", source of the phrase "green plums and bamboo horse".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.