Birthday poem · March 21Spring Equinox, the 4th solar term: day and night are equal.
Birth character
江 jiāng · river
江 combines 水 "water" with 工 as a sound element; it once meant the Yangtze.
唯見長江天際流
“Where I see but the endless River rolling by.” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower’
The poem
“Wind” 風
- 解落三秋葉It can strip the leaves of late autumn
- 能開二月花and open the flowers of early spring.
- 過江千尺浪Crossing the river, it raises thousand-foot waves;
- 入竹萬竿斜entering the bamboo, it bends ten thousand stems.
Why this poem
Li Jiao on wind: it strips autumn leaves, opens spring flowers, raises waves, bends bamboo.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Spring Equinox.