Birthday poem · December 12Major Snow, the 21st solar term: heavier snow.

Birthday poem card for December 12: “The Deer Cry” by Book of Songs (anonymous). Birth character 鹿, deer.

Birth character

鹿 lù · deer

鹿 is a picture of a deer with antlers.

呦呦鹿鳴
“Yoo, yoo, the deer call” — Book of Songs (anonymous), ‘The Deer Cry’

Other dates with this poem: June 9

The poem

“The Deer Cry” 鹿鳴

  1. 呦呦鹿鳴Yoo, yoo, the deer call,
  2. 食野之苹eating the wild herbs in the field.
  3. 我有嘉賓I have fine guests here —
  4. 鼓瑟吹笙play the zither, blow the reed pipes.

Book of Songs (anonymous) 詩經 · Zhou dynasty · four-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

A Book of Songs feast poem: "I have fine guests; play the zither and the reed pipes."

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Major Snow.

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