Birthday poem · January 14Minor Cold, the 23rd solar term: the weather turns colder.
Birth character
竹 zhú · bamboo
竹 is a picture of bamboo stems with hanging leaves.
竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬
“A bamboo staff and straw sandals, lighter than a horse” — Su Shi, ‘Calming the Waves’
Other dates with this poem: August 24
The poem
“Song of Changgan” 長干行
- 妾髮初覆額When my hair first covered my forehead,
- 折花門前劇I played picking flowers before our gate.
- 郎騎竹馬來You came riding a bamboo horse,
- 遶床弄青梅circling the well-rail, playing with green plums.
Why this poem
The opening of Li Bai's "Song of Changgan", source of the phrase "green plums and bamboo horse".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Cold.