Birthday poem · June 5Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.

Birthday poem card for June 5: “Deer Park” by Wang Wei. Birth character 林, forest.
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Birth character

林 lín · forest

林 is two trees side by side; it means a wood or forest.

停車坐愛楓林晚
“I stop my cab in maple woods to gaze my fill” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’

Other dates with this poem: November 10

The poem

“Deer Park” 鹿柴

  1. 空山不見人kōng shān bù jiàn rénThere seems to be no one on the empty mountain…
  2. 但聞人語響dàn wén rén yǔ xiǎngAnd yet I think I hear a voice,
  3. 返景入深林fǎn yǐng rù shēn línWhere sunlight, entering a grove,
  4. 復照青苔上fù zhào qīng tái shàngShines back to me from the green moss.

Wang Wei 王維 · Tang dynasty · 701–761 · five-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

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Why this poem

Wang Wei: voices in an empty mountain, evening light on the moss.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Grain in Ear.

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