Birthday poem · January 20Major Cold, the 24th solar term: the coldest time of the year.
Birth character
風 fēng · wind
風 means wind.
二月春風似剪刀
“The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
The poem
“Plum Blossom Quatrain” 梅花絶句
- 聞道梅花坼曉風I hear the plum has burst open in the dawn wind;
- 雪堆遍滿四山中snow lies heaped on all the hills around.
- 何方可化身千億How could I split myself into a million selves —
- 一樹梅花一放翁one Lu You for every blossoming plum tree?
Why this poem
Lu You loved plum blossom so much he wished for a self beneath every tree.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Major Cold.