Birthday poem · November 24Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
Birth character
歌 gē · song
歌 combines 欠, an open mouth, with 哥 as a sound element; it means to sing, or a song.
忽聞岸上踏歌聲
“When suddenly on shore footsteps and songs o'erflow.” — Li Bai, ‘For Wang Lun’
Other dates with this poem: September 25
The poem
“Reply to Vice-Prefect Zhang” 酬張少府
- 松風吹解帶The pine wind blows my sash loose;
- 山月照彈琴the mountain moon shines as I play the zither.
- 君問窮通理You ask the reason for success and failure —
- 漁歌入浦深a fisherman's song goes deep into the cove.
Why this poem
Wang Wei to a friend: no talk of success, only pine wind and mountain moon.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.