Birthday poem · April 23Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
Birth character
天 tiān · sky, heaven
In its oldest form, 天 is a person with a large head; it came to mean the sky.
疑是銀河落九天
“As if the Silver River fell from azure sky.” — Li Bai, ‘Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu’
Other dates with this poem: February 23
The poem
“Pusa Man” 菩薩蠻
- 春水碧於天Spring water bluer than the sky;
- 畫船聽雨眠in a painted boat I fall asleep to the rain.
Why this poem
Wei Zhuang on spring water south of the Yangtze and painted boats in the rain.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Rain.