Birthday poem · April 22Grain Rain, the 6th solar term: more rain, good for the young crops.
Birth character
遠 yuǎn · far
遠 combines a "walking" element with 袁 as a sound element; it means far.
遠上寒山石徑斜
“I go up a slanting stony path to the cold hill” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’
The poem
“Farewell to Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower” 黃鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵
- 故人西辭黃鶴樓gù rén xī cí huáng hè lóuMy friend has left the west where towers Yellow Crane
- 煙花三月下揚州yān huā sān yuè xià yáng zhōuFor River Town when willow-down and flowers reign.
- 孤帆遠影碧空盡gū fān yuǎn yǐng bì kōng jìnHis lessening sail is lost in the boundless blue sky,
- 唯見長江天際流wéi jiàn cháng jiāng tiān jì liúWhere I see but the endless River rolling by.
Why this poem
Li Bai sees Meng Haoran off to Yangzhou in the third month.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain Rain.