Birthday poem · January 13Minor Cold, the 23rd solar term: the weather turns colder.
Birth character
明 míng · bright
明 puts 日 "sun" beside 月 "moon"; it means bright.
明月松間照
“Bright moon shines through the pines” — Wang Wei, ‘Autumn Evening in the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: September 4
The poem
“Seeing Off Censor Chai” 送柴侍御
- 沅水通波接武岡The Yuan River's waves flow on to Wugang;
- 送君不覺有離傷seeing you off, I feel no pain of parting.
- 青山一道同雲雨One line of blue hills shares the same cloud and rain;
- 明月何曾是兩鄕when was the bright moon ever two places apart?
Why this poem
Wang Changling sees a friend off: both places share one moon.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Cold.