Birthday poem · December 2Minor Snow, the 20th solar term: the first snow.
Birth character
天 tiān · sky, heaven
In its oldest form, 天 is a person with a large head; it came to mean the sky.
疑是銀河落九天
“As if the Silver River fell from azure sky.” — Li Bai, ‘Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu’
Other dates with this poem: October 2
The poem
“Though the Tortoise Lives Long” 龜雖壽
- 老驥伏櫪An old warhorse lying in its stable
- 志在千里still dreams of running a thousand miles.
- 盈縮之期The span of life, long or short,
- 不但在天is not up to heaven alone;
- 養怡之福take care of your body and keep your heart content,
- 可得永年and you may live for many years.
Why this poem
Cao Cao: "an old horse in the stable still dreams of a thousand miles".
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Minor Snow.