Birthday poem · September 28Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term: day and night are equal again.
Birth character
星 xīng · star
星 means a star in the night sky.
坐看牽牛織女星
“She sits and gazes at the Cowherd and the Weaver stars.” — Du Mu, ‘Autumn Evening’
Other dates with this poem: December 8
The poem
“Staying the Night at a Mountain Temple” 夜宿山寺
- 危樓高百尺The tall tower stands a hundred feet high;
- 手可摘星辰from here you could pick the stars by hand.
- 不敢高聲語I dare not speak aloud,
- 恐驚天上人for fear of startling the people in heaven.
Why this poem
Li Bai at a tall mountain temple, where "one could pick the stars by hand".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Autumn Equinox.