Birthday poem · October 12Cold Dew, the 17th solar term: temperatures drop and the dew turns cold.
Birth character
珠 zhū · pearl
珠 combines 玉 "jade" with 朱 as a sound element; it means pearl.
白雨跳珠亂入船
“White rain leaps like pearls, bouncing into the boat.” — Su Shi, ‘Drunk at Lake View Tower’
Other dates with this poem: August 9
The poem
“Evening Song by the River” 暮江吟
- 一道殘陽鋪水中One streak of setting sun spreads across the water:
- 半江瑟瑟半江紅half the river jade-green, half the river red.
- 可憐九月初三夜How lovely, this night, the third of the ninth month —
- 露似眞珠月似弓dew like true pearls, the moon like a bow.
Why this poem
Sunset on the river, a new moon and dew on the third night of the ninth month.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Cold Dew.