Birthday poem · December 6Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
Birth character
門 mén · gate
門 is a picture of a two-leaf gate.
拄杖無時夜叩門
“I will tap at your gate with my staff at any hour of night.” — Lu You, ‘Visiting a Village West of the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: September 30
The poem
“Li Ning's Secluded Dwelling” 題李凝幽居
- 鳥宿池邊樹Birds roost in the trees by the pond;
- 僧敲月下門a monk knocks at a gate beneath the moon.
Why this poem
Jia Dao's "a monk knocks at the gate under the moon", the origin of the word for revising.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.