Birthday poem · April 9Clear and Bright, the 5th solar term: the weather warms and plants turn green.
Birth character
金 jīn · gold
金 first meant metal in general; it came to mean gold.
金陵子弟來相送
“The young men of Jinling have come to see me off” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell at a Jinling Tavern’
Other dates with this poem: February 7
The poem
“Night Duty” 夜直
- 金爐香盡漏聲殘In the gold censer the incense is gone; the water clock nearly done;
- 翦翦輕風陣陣寒gust after gust of light breeze brings a chill.
- 春色惱人眠不得The spring colours trouble me — I can't sleep;
- 月移花影上欄干the moon moves the flower shadows up the railing.
Why this poem
Wang Anshi on night duty, watching moonlight move flower shadows up the railing.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Clear and Bright.