Birthday poem · June 11Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
Birth character
晴 qíng · clear sky
晴 combines 日 "sun" with 青 as a sound element; it means the sky clearing after rain.
晴空一鶴排雲上
“On a fine day a crane cleaves the clouds and soars high” — Liu Yuxi, ‘Autumn Song’
The poem
“On the Road to Sanqu” 三衢道中
- 梅子黃時日日晴When the plums turn yellow, every day is fine;
- 小溪泛盡却山行we take the little stream to its end, then walk the hills.
- 綠陰不減來時路The green shade is no less than on the way here,
- 添得黃鸝四五聲and four or five orioles' songs are added.
Why this poem
Zeng Ji on a sunny mountain walk in plum season, with birdsong in the shade.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.