Birthday poem · December 15Major Snow, the 21st solar term: heavier snow.

Birthday poem card for December 15: “For Meng Haoran” by Li Bai. Birth character 清, clear, pure.
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Birth character

清 qīng · clear, pure

清 combines 水 "water" with 青 as a sound element; it means clear water, or pure.

問渠那得清如許
“I ask how it can stay so clear and clean” — Zhu Xi, ‘Thoughts on Reading’

Other dates with this poem: July 10

The poem

“For Meng Haoran” 贈孟浩然

  1. 吾愛孟夫子I love you, Master Meng —
  2. 風流天下聞your free spirit is known throughout the land.
  3. 高山安可仰How can I look up to so high a mountain?
  4. 徒此揖清芬I can only bow to your pure fragrance.

Li Bai 李白 · Tang dynasty · 701–762 · five-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Li Bai to Meng Haoran: "I love Master Meng".

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Major Snow.

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