Birthday poem · June 12Grain in Ear, the 9th solar term: wheat harvest and rice planting.
Birth character
玉 yù · jade
玉 is a picture of jade pieces on a string; it means jade.
碧玉妝成一樹高
“The slender beauty's dressed in emerald all about” — He Zhizhang, ‘Ode to the Willow’
Other dates with this poem: September 10
The poem
“Song of the Bright Moon” 古朗月行
- 小時不識月When I was small I didn't know the moon;
- 呼作白玉盤I called it a white jade plate.
- 又疑瑤臺鏡Or I thought it was a mirror from the Jade Terrace,
- 飛在青雲端flying at the edge of the blue clouds.
Why this poem
Li Bai remembers calling the moon a white jade plate as a child.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Grain in Ear.