Birthday poem · August 22End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
秋 qiū · autumn
秋 first referred to ripe grain; it means autumn, the harvest season.
我言秋日勝春朝
“But I say spring cannot compete with autumn clear.” — Liu Yuxi, ‘Autumn Song’
Other dates with this poem: October 21
The poem
“An Autumn Night, for Qiu” 秋夜寄丘員外
- 懷君屬秋夜I think of you on this autumn night,
- 散步詠涼天strolling and chanting in the cool air.
- 山空松子落In the empty hills the pine cones fall;
- 幽人應未眠my hermit friend, too, must be awake.
Why this poem
Wei Yingwu misses a friend on an autumn night and guesses he is awake too.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.