Birthday poem · May 13Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.
Birth character
天 tiān · sky, heaven
In its oldest form, 天 is a person with a large head; it came to mean the sky.
疑是銀河落九天
“As if the Silver River fell from azure sky.” — Li Bai, ‘Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu’
Other dates with this poem: July 18
The poem
“Seeing Off Prefect Li of Zizhou” 送梓州李使君
- 萬壑樹參天In ten thousand valleys the trees reach the sky;
- 千山響杜鵑in a thousand hills the cuckoos call.
- 山中一夜雨After a night of rain in the mountains,
- 樹杪百重泉from the treetops, a hundred streams of falling water.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on Sichuan hills after night rain, with a hundred streams from the treetops.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Summer.