Birthday poem · October 16Cold Dew, the 17th solar term: temperatures drop and the dew turns cold.
Birth character
鳥 niǎo · bird
鳥 is a picture of a bird.
處處聞啼鳥
“Not to awake till birds are crying.” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
The poem
“Drinking Wine, No. 5” 飲酒
- 採菊東籬下Picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence,
- 悠然見南山I catch sight, at ease, of the southern hills.
- 山氣日夕佳The mountain air is lovely at sunset;
- 飛鳥相與還the birds fly home together.
Why this poem
Tao Yuanming picks chrysanthemums by the east fence and sees the southern hills.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Cold Dew.