Birthday poem · December 30Winter Solstice, the 22nd solar term: the longest night of the year.
Birth character
詩 shī · poem
詩 combines 言 "speech" with 寺 as a sound element; it means poem.
便引詩情到碧霄
“It leads the poet's lofty mind to azure sky.” — Liu Yuxi, ‘Autumn Song’
The poem
“Snow and Plum II” 雪梅 其二
- 有梅無雪不精神Plum without snow has no spirit;
- 有雪無詩俗了人snow without a poem makes one dull.
- 日暮詩成天又雪At dusk the poem is done and it snows again —
- 與梅併作十分春with the plum, they make a perfect spring.
Why this poem
Lu Meipo: plum blossom, snow and a poem together make a full spring.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Winter Solstice.