Title:
Lyric by Su Shi
Literary Content / Inscription:
How rate the moon, so round and clear! With cup in hand, I ask of the blue sky, "I do not know in the celestial sphere. What name this festive night goes by?" I want to fly home, riding the air, but fear the ethereal cold up there, the jade and crystal mansions are so high! I fell no longer the mortal tie. She rounds the vermilion tower, stoops to silk-pad doors, shines on those who sleepless lie. Why does she, bearing us no grudge, shine upon our parting, reunion deny? But rate is perfect happiness — The moon does wax, the moon does wane and so men meet and say goodbye. I only pray our life be long, and our souls together heavenward fly!
Lin, Yu Tang. Prelude to Water Melody. Available at: http://cloudschool.huayuworld.org/moodle/pluginfile.php/166889/mod_resource/content/1/Supplement/Moon-watermeldy.pdf [Accessed 22 Feb. 2019].
Script / Format:
Standard Script／Hanging scroll
Collector / Year:
Dr. Daniel Chak Kwong Lau／1999
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