Birthday poem · September 1End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
鳥 niǎo · bird
鳥 is a picture of a bird.
處處聞啼鳥
“Not to awake till birds are crying.” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
Other dates with this poem: November 4
The poem
“Sitting Alone Facing Jingting Mountain” 獨坐敬亭山
- 衆鳥高飛盡zhòng niǎo gāo fēi jìnAll birds have flown away, so high;
- 孤雲獨去閒gū yún dú qù xiánA lonely cloud drifts on, so free.
- 相看兩不厭xiāng kàn liǎng bù yànWe are not tired, the Peak and I,
- 只有敬亭山zhǐ yǒu jìng tíng shānNor I of him, nor he of me.
Why this poem
Li Bai alone on Jingting Mountain: the birds and cloud are gone, only the mountain and he remain.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.