Birthday poem · August 21Start of Autumn, the 13th solar term: autumn begins in the traditional calendar.
Birth character
風 fēng · wind
風 means wind.
二月春風似剪刀
“The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: December 17
The poem
“Floating on the Han River” 漢江臨汎
- 江流天地外The river flows beyond heaven and earth;
- 山色有無中the mountains' colours hover between there and not there.
- 襄陽好風日Xiangyang has such fine wind and weather —
- 留醉與山翁I'll stay and get drunk with the old man of the hills.
Why this poem
Wang Wei boating on the Han River, where the hills seem there and not there.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Autumn.