Birthday poem · November 27Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
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’
Other dates with this poem: January 26
The poem
“Snow at Hibiscus Mountain” 逢雪宿芙蓉山主人
- 日暮蒼山遠At dusk the blue mountains seem far away;
- 天寒白屋貧in the cold, the white-thatched hut looks poor.
- 柴門聞犬吠At the brushwood gate I hear a dog bark —
- 風雪夜歸人someone coming home through the wind and snow.
Why this poem
Lodging at a mountain house on a snowy night, hearing a dog bark at the gate. A winter poem.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.