Birthday poem · September 12White Dew, the 15th solar term: nights cool and dew forms on the grass.
Birth character
朝 zhāo · morning
朝 shows the sun rising among plants while the moon is still up; it means morning.
朝辭白帝彩雲間
“Leaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud” — Li Bai, ‘Leaving Baidi City at Dawn’
Other dates with this poem: November 11
The poem
“Leaving Baidi City at Dawn” 早發白帝城
- 朝辭白帝彩雲間zhāo cí bái dì cǎi yún jiānLeaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud,
- 千里江陵一日還qiān lǐ jiāng líng yī rì huánI've sailed a thousand li through canyons in a day.
- 兩岸猿聲啼不住liǎng àn yuán shēng tí bù zhùWith monkeys' sad adieus the riverbanks are loud;
- 輕舟已過萬重山qīng zhōu yǐ guò wàn chóng shānMy skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.
Why this poem
Li Bai, pardoned, sails home: "my light boat has passed ten thousand hills".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: White Dew.