Birthday poem · October 27Frost’s Descent, the 18th solar term: the first frosts.
Birth character
草 cǎo · grass
草 means grass or any small plant.
離離原上草
“Wild grasses spread across the plain” — Bai Juyi, ‘Grass on the Ancient Plain: A Farewell’
Other dates with this poem: August 28
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: Frost’s Descent.