Birthday poem · January 26Major Cold, the 24th solar term: the coldest time of the year.
Birth character
門 mén · gate
門 is a picture of a two-leaf gate.
拄杖無時夜叩門
“I will tap at your gate with my staff at any hour of night.” — Lu You, ‘Visiting a Village West of the Mountains’
Other dates with this poem: November 27
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: Major Cold.