Birthday poem · November 16Start of Winter, the 19th solar term: winter begins.
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: July 15
The poem
“Viewing the Vast Sea” 觀滄海
- 日月之行The courses of the sun and moon
- 若出其中seem to rise from within it;
- 星漢燦爛the brilliant Milky Way
- 若出其裏seems to emerge from inside it.
Why this poem
Cao Cao looks at the sea; the sun, moon and stars seem to rise from it.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Winter.