Notes prepared around the Mooncake Festival, 10 Sept, 2022
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Song dynasty poet Su Shi, aka Dongpu, whose second, honorary name has been borrowed for a succulent dish of glazed pork rind, wrote of the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhōngqiū Jié, 中秋节).
“May we live long and share the beauty of the moon / together, even if we are hundreds of miles apart.”
This is something Nasrin and I experienced in 1989 during my first visit to Curaçao, the story of which I cast into a poem for her.
https://alteritas.net/pastis/puss-and-boots/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork
Barbara Tropp, Mastering the Art.
https://thewoksoflife.com/braised-pork-belly-dong-po-rou/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cooking_techniques
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Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival, Zhong Qiu Jie) 2022: Traditions, Stories, Food…
水调歌头 (Water Music Song) by Su Shi / Su Tung-P’o
2 of the Most Famous Chinese Mid-Autumn Poems
蘇軾 水調歌頭 Translation: Water Song, by Su Shi (明月幾時有)
Mid-Autumn Moon – Mid-Autumn Moon Poem by Su Shi
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An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: from the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2017)