Birthday poem · November 30Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
Birth character
雲 yún · cloud
雲 means cloud; the older form 云 shows swirling vapour.
白雲生處有人家
“Where rise white clouds, there appear cottages and bowers.” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
Other dates with this poem: January 29
The poem
“Snow Remaining on Zhongnan” 終南望餘雪
- 終南陰嶺秀Zhongnan's shaded ridges are lovely;
- 積雪浮雲端the piled snow floats on the clouds.
- 林表明霽色At the forest's edge the sky clears bright;
- 城中增暮寒in the city the evening cold grows.
Why this poem
Zu Yong on lingering snow on the Zhongnan mountains; the city grows colder after.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.