Birthday poem · May 17Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.
Birth character
晴 qíng · clear sky
晴 combines 日 "sun" with 青 as a sound element; it means the sky clearing after rain.
晴空一鶴排雲上
“On a fine day a crane cleaves the clouds and soars high” — Liu Yuxi, ‘Autumn Song’
Other dates with this poem: July 25
The poem
“Clearing at Dusk” 晚晴
- 天意憐幽草Heaven takes pity on the hidden grass;
- 人間重晚晴the world holds dear the clear sky at evening.
Why this poem
"Heaven pities the hidden grass; people prize clear evenings": a summer evening clearing after rain.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Summer.