A Song of Unending Sorrow #45
- oil on silk
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29.5 x 22.25 in
(74.93 x 56.52 cm)
- Yee Wah Jung
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Available
45. Love glowed deep within her eyes. Happiness had ended at the court of the Bright Sun and the nights and the dawns had become long in the Fairy Mountain Palace. The emperor's form and voice had become unfamiliar to her since their parting. She turned her face and looked down toward the earth from the heavens. She tired to see the capital but saw only fog and dust.
Through the envoy, she sent him a shell box and a gold hairpin but she kept one branch of the hairpin and one side of the box. "Our souls belong together," she said as she broke the gold of the hairpin and the shell on the box. "Like this gold and this shell, somewhere, sometime on earth or in heaven, we shall surely meet."
- Subject Matter: Tu An
- Inventory Number: 1409
- Collections: Series - Song of Unending Sorrow, Tu-Aunqua