Birthday poem · October 4Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term: day and night are equal again.

Birthday poem card for October 4: “A Little Girl” by Shi Jianwu. Birth character 月, moon.
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Birth character

月 yuè · moon

月 is a picture of a crescent moon.

舉頭望明月
“Looking up, I find the moon bright” — Li Bai, ‘Quiet Night Thoughts’

Other dates with this poem: June 3

The poem

“A Little Girl” 幼女詞

  1. 幼女纔六歲The little girl is just six years old,
  2. 未知巧與拙she doesn't yet know clever from clumsy.
  3. 向夜在堂前At nightfall, before the hall,
  4. 學人拜新月she copies grown-ups, bowing to the new moon.

Shi Jianwu 施肩吾 · Tang dynasty · 780–861 · five-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Shi Jianwu on a six-year-old girl copying adults bowing to the new moon.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: Autumn Equinox.

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