Birthday poem · August 28End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
橋 qiáo · bridge
橋 combines 木 "wood" with 喬 as a sound element; it means bridge.
竹溪村路板橋斜
“By the bamboo stream, the village path, a slanting plank bridge.” — Wang Jian, ‘Rain Passing a Mountain Village’
Other dates with this poem: October 27
The poem
“For Han Chuo in Yangzhou” 寄揚州韓綽判官
- 青山隱隱水迢迢Blue hills faint, faint, waters far, far away;
- 秋盡江南草未凋autumn ends in the south, but the grass has not withered.
- 二十四橋明月夜On a moonlit night at the Twenty-Four Bridges,
- 玉人何處教吹簫where is the jade-like one teaching the flute?
Why this poem
Du Mu writes to a friend about moonlit nights at Yangzhou's Twenty-four Bridges.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.