Birthday poem · July 15Minor Heat, the 11th solar term: the heat begins.

Birthday poem card for July 15: “Viewing the Vast Sea” by Cao Cao. Birth character 月, moon.
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Birth character

月 yuè · moon

月 is a picture of a crescent moon.

舉頭望明月
“Looking up, I find the moon bright” — Li Bai, ‘Quiet Night Thoughts’

Other dates with this poem: November 16

The poem

“Viewing the Vast Sea” 觀滄海

  1. 日月之行The courses of the sun and moon
  2. 若出其中seem to rise from within it;
  3. 星漢燦爛the brilliant Milky Way
  4. 若出其裏seems to emerge from inside it.

Cao Cao 曹操 · Three Kingdoms (Wei) dynasty · 155–220 · four-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Cao Cao looks at the sea; the sun, moon and stars seem to rise from it.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Minor Heat.

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