Birthday poem · August 10Start of Autumn, the 13th solar term: autumn begins in the traditional calendar.
Birth character
白 bái · white
白 means white, and also clear or plain.
白雲生處有人家
“Where rise white clouds, there appear cottages and bowers.” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
Other dates with this poem: October 15
The poem
“Boating on Dongting Lake” 陪族叔刑部侍郎曄及中書賈舍人至遊洞庭
- 南湖秋水夜無煙On the South Lake, autumn water, no haze at night;
- 耐可乘流直上天how I wish I could ride the current straight to heaven.
- 且就洞庭賒月色For now, let's buy the moonlight on Dongting on credit,
- 將船買酒白雲邊and row our boat to buy wine beside the white clouds.
Why this poem
Li Bai boating on Lake Dongting at night, wanting to buy wine at the edge of the clouds.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Autumn.