Birthday poem · October 21Cold Dew, the 17th solar term: temperatures drop and the dew turns cold.
Birth character
松 sōng · pine
松 combines 木 "tree" with 公 as a sound element; it means pine.
明月松間照
“Bright moon shines through the pines” — Wang Wei, ‘Autumn Evening in the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: August 22
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: Cold Dew.