Birthday poem · August 25End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.

Birthday poem card for August 25: “Bu Suan Zi” by Li Zhiyi. Birth character 心, heart.
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Birth character

心 xīn · heart

心 is a picture of the heart, once thought to be the organ of thought.

笑而不答心自閒
“My mind carefree, I smile and give him no reply.” — Li Bai, ‘Question and Answer in the Mountains’

Other dates with this poem: December 18

The poem

“Bu Suan Zi” 卜算子

  1. 我住長江頭I live at the head of the Yangtze,
  2. 君住長江尾you live at its tail.
  3. 日日思君不見君Day after day I think of you and never see you,
  4. 共飲長江水yet we drink from the same river.
  5. 只願君心似我心I only hope your heart is like my heart —
  6. 定不負相思意then I will not have longed for you in vain.

Li Zhiyi 李之儀 · Northern Song dynasty · 1048–1117 · ci (song lyric) · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Two people drinking from the same Yangtze who cannot meet. A love song.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: End of Heat.

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