Birthday poem · December 9Major Snow, the 21st solar term: heavier snow.
Birth character
新 xīn · new
新 first meant cutting wood with an axe; it was borrowed to mean new.
客舍青青柳色新
“The willows by the tavern look so fresh and green.” — Wang Wei, ‘Farewell to Yuan Er on His Mission to Anxi’
Other dates with this poem: June 7
The poem
“Song of Youth” 少年行
- 新豐美酒斗十千New Feng's fine wine costs ten thousand a measure;
- 咸陽遊侠多少年Xianyang's gallants are mostly young men.
- 相逢意氣爲君飲When they meet, in high spirits, they drink to each other,
- 繫馬高樓垂柳邊tying their horses by the willows below the tall tower.
Why this poem
Wang Wei on young men of Chang'an drinking together, horses tied to the willows.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Major Snow.