Birthday poem · September 8White Dew, the 15th solar term: nights cool and dew forms on the grass.
Birth character
竹 zhú · bamboo
竹 is a picture of bamboo stems with hanging leaves.
竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬
“A bamboo staff and straw sandals, lighter than a horse” — Su Shi, ‘Calming the Waves’
Other dates with this poem: December 20
The poem
“The Old Fisherman” 漁翁
- 漁翁夜傍西巖宿The old fisherman sleeps by the western cliff at night;
- 曉汲清湘燃楚竹at dawn he draws water from the clear Xiang and burns Chu bamboo.
- 煙銷日出不見人The mist melts, the sun comes out, and no one is in sight —
- 欸乃一聲山水綠one creak of the oar, and hills and water turn green.
Why this poem
Liu Zongyuan on a fisherman at dawn on the Xiang River.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: White Dew.