Birthday poem · September 15Moon-viewing season, in the White Dew period.
Birth character
花 huā · flower
花 means a flower; the older form was 華.
花落知多少
“How many are the fallen flowers!” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
The poem
“Gazing at the Full Moon” 十五夜望月
- 中庭地白樹棲鴉In the courtyard the ground is white; crows roost in the trees;
- 冷露無聲濕桂花cold dew, without a sound, wets the osmanthus.
- 今夜月明人盡望Tonight the moon is bright and everyone gazes —
- 不知秋思在誰家I wonder in whose house the autumn longing falls.
Why this poem
Wang Jian on the mid-autumn moon and cold dew.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: White Dew. Near moon-viewing season.