Birthday poem · December 1Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
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: September 23
The poem
“Heaven Protects You” 天保
- 如月之恆Like the moon at its full,
- 如日之升like the sun rising,
- 如南山之壽like the long life of the southern hills,
- 不騫不崩never waning, never falling,
- 如松柏之茂like the lushness of pines and cypresses —
- 無不爾或承may all of this be yours.
Why this poem
A Book of Songs blessing: "like the moon growing full, like the sun rising".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.