Birthday poem · August 3Major Heat, the 12th solar term: the hottest time of the year.
Birth character
燕 yàn · swallow
燕 is a picture of a swallow with its wings spread.
誰家新燕啄春泥
“Whose new swallows are pecking at the spring mud?” — Bai Juyi, ‘Spring Walk by Qiantang Lake’
Other dates with this poem: June 2
The poem
“Easing the Heart by the Water Rail” 水檻遣心
- 澄江平少岸The clear river, level, its banks hardly showing;
- 幽樹晚多花the quiet trees, late in the day, full of flowers.
- 細雨魚兒出In the fine rain, little fish come up;
- 微風燕子斜in the light breeze, swallows slant.
Why this poem
Du Fu by the river: fish surface in drizzle, swallows slant in the breeze.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Major Heat.