Birthday poem · June 6Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
Birth character
笑 xiào · smile
笑 means to smile or laugh.
桃花依舊笑春風
“The peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind.” — Cui Hu, ‘Written at a Villa South of the Capital’
Other dates with this poem: December 7
The poem
“My Retreat at Zhongnan” 終南別業
- 行到水窮處I walk to where the water ends,
- 坐看雲起時and sit and watch the clouds rise.
- 偶然值林叟By chance I meet an old man of the woods;
- 談笑無還期we talk and laugh and forget to go home.
Why this poem
Wang Wei: "walk to where the water ends, sit and watch the clouds rise".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.