Birthday poem · February 22Rain Water, the 2nd solar term: snow gives way to rain.
Birth character
橋 qiáo · bridge
橋 combines 木 "wood" with 喬 as a sound element; it means bridge.
竹溪村路板橋斜
“By the bamboo stream, the village path, a slanting plank bridge.” — Wang Jian, ‘Rain Passing a Mountain Village’
Other dates with this poem: April 26
The poem
“Rain Passing a Mountain Village” 雨過山村
- 雨裏鷄鳴一兩家In the rain, a cock crows at one or two houses;
- 竹溪村路板橋斜by the bamboo stream, the village path, a slanting plank bridge.
- 婦姑相喚浴蠶去Wife and mother-in-law call each other to go bathe the silkworm eggs;
- 閑看中庭梔子花idle in the courtyard, the gardenia flowers.
Why this poem
Wang Jian on a mountain village in rain, women calling each other to bathe silkworm eggs.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Rain Water.