Birthday poem · August 30End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
高 gāo · high
高 is a picture of a tall building; it means high.
遠近高低各不同
“Assuming different shapes viewed from far and wide.” — Su Shi, ‘Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple’
Other dates with this poem: October 29
The poem
“Autumn View in Chang'an” 長安秋望
- 樓倚霜樹外The tower leans beyond the frost-touched trees;
- 鏡天無一毫the mirror of the sky has not a single speck.
- 南山與秋色The Southern Mountains and the autumn colours
- 氣勢兩相高rise up together, each as lofty as the other.
Why this poem
Du Mu on Chang'an's clear autumn sky and the Zhongnan mountains.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.