Birthday poem · September 3End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.
Birth character
日 rì · sun
日 is a picture of the sun; it means sun or day.
白日依山盡
“The sun beyond the mountains glows” — Wang Zhihuan, ‘Climbing Stork Tower’
Other dates with this poem: January 12
The poem
“The New Bride” 新嫁娘詞
- 三日入厨下On the third day she goes into the kitchen,
- 洗手作羹湯washes her hands and makes a soup.
- 未諳姑食性Not yet knowing her mother-in-law's taste,
- 先遣小姑嘗she first has her husband's little sister try it.
Why this poem
Wang Jian on a new bride cooking on her third day, asking her sister-in-law to taste first.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: End of Heat.