Birthday poem · May 6Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.
Birth character
舟 zhōu · boat
舟 is a picture of a small boat.
輕舟已過萬重山
“My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.” — Li Bai, ‘Leaving Baidi City at Dawn’
The poem
“For Wang Lun” 贈汪倫
- 李白乘舟將欲行lǐ bái chéng zhōu jiāng yù xíngI, Li Bai, sit aboard a ship about to go,
- 忽聞岸上踏歌聲hū wén àn shàng tà gē shēngWhen suddenly on shore footsteps and songs o'erflow.
- 桃花潭水深千尺táo huā tán shuǐ shēn qiān chǐThe Lake of Peach Blossom is a thousand fathoms deep,
- 不及汪倫送我情bù jí wāng lún sòng wǒ qíngBut not so deep as the friendship Wang Lun and I keep.
Why this poem
Wang Lun sings Li Bai off: the peach pool is deep, but not as deep as friendship.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Start of Summer.