{"id":1183,"date":"2022-09-12T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:22:00","slug":"only-the-moon-can-bounce-my-worry-back-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/09\/12\/only-the-moon-can-bounce-my-worry-back-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Only the Moon Can Bounce My Worry Back to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Notes \u00a0prepared around the Mooncake Festival, 10 Sept, 2022<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">***<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">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 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">(Zh\u014dngqi\u016b Ji\u00e9<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u4e2d\u79cb<\/span><span class=\"s4\">\u8282<\/span><span class=\"s1\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;May we live long and share the beauty of the moon \/\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">together, even if we are hundreds of miles apart.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">This is something Nasrin and I experienced in 1989 during my first visit to Cura\u00e7ao, the story of which I cast into a poem for her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/puss-and-boots\/\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/puss-and-boots\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dongpo_pork\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dongpo_pork<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Barbara Tropp, Mastering the Art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewoksoflife.com\/braised-pork-belly-dong-po-rou\/\">https:\/\/thewoksoflife.com\/braised-pork-belly-dong-po-rou\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_cooking_techniques\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_cooking_techniques<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">*********************<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/su-shi\/\">Su Shi &#8211; Poet Su Shi Poems<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinahighlights.com\/festivals\/mid-autumn-festival.htm\">Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival, Zhong Qiu Jie) 2022: Traditions, Stories, Food\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movingpoems.com\/2016\/10\/%E6%B0%B4%E8%B0%83%E6%AD%8C%E5%A4%B4-water-music-song-by-su-shi-su-tung-po\/\">\u6c34\u8c03\u6b4c\u5934 (Water Music Song) by Su Shi \/ Su Tung-P\u2019o<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinahighlights.com\/festivals\/mid-autumn-festival-poems.htm\">2 of the Most Famous Chinese Mid-Autumn Poems<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastasiastudent.net\/china\/classical\/su-shi-water-song\/\">\u8607\u8efe \u6c34\u8abf\u6b4c\u982d Translation: Water Song, by Su Shi (\u660e\u6708\u5e7e\u6642\u6709)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/mid-autumn-moon\/\">Mid-Autumn Moon &#8211; Mid-Autumn Moon Poem by Su Shi<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<div id=\"titleblock_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"titleblock\" data-csa-c-id=\"yacwt-fota4j-kd6kh1-cyi5jf\" data-cel-widget=\"titleblock_feature_div\">\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<p id=\"title\" class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs) <\/span><span id=\"productSubtitle\" class=\"a-size-large a-color-secondary\">Paperback \u2013 November 15, 2004 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bylineInfo_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bylineInfo\" data-csa-c-id=\"yv176l-pv12fj-66kbwj-d09waz\" data-cel-widget=\"bylineInfo_feature_div\">\n<div id=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\" data-cel-widget=\"bylineInfo\">by <span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"><a class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Michael+A.+Fuller&amp;text=Michael+A.+Fuller&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books\">Michael A. Fuller<\/a><span class=\"contribution\"><span class=\"a-color-secondary\">(Author)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-cel-widget=\"bylineInfo\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: from the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes \u00a0prepared around the Mooncake Festival, 10 Sept, 2022 *** 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 (Zh\u014dngqi\u016b Ji\u00e9, \u4e2d\u79cb\u8282). &#8220;May we live long and share the beauty of the moon \/\u00a0together, even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/09\/12\/only-the-moon-can-bounce-my-worry-back-to-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only the Moon Can Bounce My Worry Back to You&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}