Birthday poem · July 31Major Heat, the 12th solar term: the hottest time of the year.

Birthday poem card for July 31: “A Summer Day in the Mountains” by Li Bai. Birth character 林, forest.
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Birth character

林 lín · forest

林 is two trees side by side; it means a wood or forest.

停車坐愛楓林晚
“I stop my cab in maple woods to gaze my fill” — Du Mu, ‘Mountain Walk’

Other dates with this poem: May 25

The poem

“A Summer Day in the Mountains” 夏日山中

  1. 懶搖白羽扇Too lazy to wave my white-feather fan,
  2. 裸袒青林中I strip bare in the green woods.
  3. 脫巾掛石壁I take off my cap and hang it on the rock face,
  4. 露頂灑松風and let the pine wind wash over my head.

Li Bai 李白 · Tang dynasty · 701–762 · five-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Li Bai takes off his cap to cool down in the summer woods.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Major Heat.

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