Birthday poem · April 26Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
Birth character
竹 zhú · bamboo
竹 is a picture of bamboo stems with hanging leaves.
竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬
“A bamboo staff and straw sandals, lighter than a horse” — Su Shi, ‘Calming the Waves’
Other dates with this poem: February 22
The poem
“Rain Passing a Mountain Village” 雨過山村
- 雨裏鷄鳴一兩家In the rain, a cock crows at one or two houses;
- 竹溪村路板橋斜by the bamboo stream, the village path, a slanting plank bridge.
- 婦姑相喚浴蠶去Wife and mother-in-law call each other to go bathe the silkworm eggs;
- 閑看中庭梔子花idle in the courtyard, the gardenia flowers.
Why this poem
Wang Jian on a mountain village in rain, women calling each other to bathe silkworm eggs.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Rain.