Birthday poem · May 11Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.
Birth character
聲 shēng · voice
聲 means sound or voice, and also reputation.
夜來風雨聲
“After one night of wind and showers” — Meng Haoran, ‘Spring Dawn’
Other dates with this poem: July 17
The poem
“Village in the Fourth Month” 鄕村四月
- 綠遍山原白滿川Green covers the hills and plains, white fills the streams;
- 子規聲裏雨如煙amid the cuckoo's calls, the rain is like mist.
- 鄕村四月閑人少In the village in the fourth month, few are idle:
- 纔了蠶桑又插田silkworms just finished, now it's time to plant rice.
Why this poem
Weng Juan on the fourth month in the country: silkworms done, then rice planting.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Summer.