Birthday poem · September 16Moon-viewing season, in the White Dew period.

Birthday poem card for September 16: “Gazing at the Moon, Thinking of One Far Away” by Zhang Jiuling. Birth character 月, moon.
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Birth character

月 yuè · moon

月 is a picture of a crescent moon.

舉頭望明月
“Looking up, I find the moon bright” — Li Bai, ‘Quiet Night Thoughts’

The poem

“Gazing at the Moon, Thinking of One Far Away” 望月懷遠

  1. 海上生明月Over the sea the bright moon rises;
  2. 天涯共此時at the ends of the earth we share this moment.

Zhang Jiuling 張九齡 · Tang dynasty · 678–740 · five-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

"Over the sea the bright moon rises": missing someone under the moon, a mid-autumn poem.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: White Dew. Near moon-viewing season.

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