Birthday poem · July 8Minor Heat, the 11th solar term: the heat begins.
Birth character
水 shuǐ · water
水 is a picture of flowing water.
爲有源頭活水來
“Because fresh water flows in from the source unseen.” — Zhu Xi, ‘Thoughts on Reading’
The poem
“Long Rain at Wangchuan” 積雨輞川莊作
- 漠漠水田飛白鷺Over the wide, wide paddies white egrets fly;
- 陰陰夏木囀黃鸝in the dark, dark summer trees the orioles sing.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on the Wangchuan estate after long summer rain, egrets over the paddies.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Heat.