Birthday poem · September 30Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term: day and night are equal again.
Birth character
樹 shù · tree
樹 first meant to plant; it came to mean a tree.
碧玉妝成一樹高
“The slender beauty's dressed in emerald all about” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: December 6
The poem
“Li Ning's Secluded Dwelling” 題李凝幽居
- 鳥宿池邊樹Birds roost in the trees by the pond;
- 僧敲月下門a monk knocks at a gate beneath the moon.
Why this poem
Jia Dao's "a monk knocks at the gate under the moon", the origin of the word for revising.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Autumn Equinox.