Birthday poem · February 23Rain Water, the 2nd solar term: snow gives way to rain.
Birth character
碧 bì · jade-green
碧 first meant a fine blue-green stone; it came to mean blue-green.
孤帆遠影碧空盡
“His lessening sail is lost in the boundless blue sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower’
Other dates with this poem: April 23
The poem
“Pusa Man” 菩薩蠻
- 春水碧於天Spring water bluer than the sky;
- 畫船聽雨眠in a painted boat I fall asleep to the rain.
Why this poem
Wei Zhuang on spring water south of the Yangtze and painted boats in the rain.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Rain Water.