Birthday poem · June 7Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
Birth character
遊 yóu · roam, play
遊 means to travel or wander for pleasure.
浮雲遊子意
“With floating cloud you'll float away” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’
Other dates with this poem: December 9
The poem
“Song of Youth” 少年行
- 新豐美酒斗十千New Feng's fine wine costs ten thousand a measure;
- 咸陽遊侠多少年Xianyang's gallants are mostly young men.
- 相逢意氣爲君飲When they meet, in high spirits, they drink to each other,
- 繫馬高樓垂柳邊tying their horses by the willows below the tall tower.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on young men of Chang'an drinking together, horses tied to the willows.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.