Birthday poem · November 26Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
Birth character
樹 shù · tree
樹 first meant to plant; it came to mean a tree.
碧玉妝成一樹高
“The slender beauty's dressed in emerald all about” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: January 25
The poem
“Song of White Snow” 白雪歌送武判官歸京
- 忽如一夜春風來As if overnight a spring wind had come,
- 千樹萬樹梨花開and a thousand trees, ten thousand trees, burst into pear blossom.
Why this poem
Cen Shen on snow in the eighth month at the frontier, like pear trees blooming overnight.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.