Birthday poem · July 11Minor Heat, the 11th solar term: the heat begins.

Birth character

金 jīn · gold

金 first meant metal in general; it came to mean gold.

金陵子弟來相送

“The young men of Jinling have come to see me off” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell at a Jinling Tavern’

Other dates with this poem: December 16

“Waves Washing Sand” 浪淘沙

千淘萬漉雖辛苦Though sifted a thousand times and filtered ten thousand, it is hard work,
吹盡狂沙始到金only when all the wild sand is blown away does the gold appear.

Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫 · Tang dynasty · 772–842 · seven-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Liu Yuxi on panning for gold: only after the sand is washed away does gold appear.

Solar term: Minor Heat.

Year of birth shows that year's lunar date and solar term

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