Birthday poem · November 21Start of Winter, the 19th solar term: winter begins.
Birth character
青 qīng · green-blue
青 means blue-green, the colour of new plants and clear sky.
青山橫北郭
“Green mountains bar the northern sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’
Other dates with this poem: September 21
The poem
“Moss” 苔
- 白日不到處Where the sun never reaches,
- 青春恰自來youth still comes, just in time.
- 苔花如米小Moss flowers, small as grains of rice,
- 也學牡丹開still learn to bloom like the peony.
Why this poem
Yuan Mei: moss flowers are tiny, but they bloom like peonies.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Winter.