Birthday poem · May 25Grain Buds, the 8th solar term: wheat and barley begin to fill.
Birth character
青 qīng · green-blue
青 means blue-green, the colour of new plants and clear sky.
青山橫北郭
“Green mountains bar the northern sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’
Other dates with this poem: July 31
The poem
“A Summer Day in the Mountains” 夏日山中
- 懶搖白羽扇Too lazy to wave my white-feather fan,
- 裸袒青林中I strip bare in the green woods.
- 脫巾掛石壁I take off my cap and hang it on the rock face,
- 露頂灑松風and let the pine wind wash over my head.
Why this poem
Li Bai takes off his cap to cool down in the summer woods.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Buds.