Chang'e's Dish Poem by Cigeng Zhang
Chang'e's Dish
a purple cabbage
cooked by the hot setting sun
meal of moon palace
Chang'E was a heavenly girl who worked among fairies and immortals in the palace of the Jade Emperor （玉帝）. One day, she broke a special porcelain jar and was banished to live among humans on earth, with the promise that she could return if she performed good deeds there.
Joining a family of farmers, she met Houyi （后羿）, a hunter and master archer; later, they married. Houyi had the ever-young potion. One day, when Houyi went out, she stole the potion and drank it in the hope that she would become immortal. The result was she felt her body became so light that made her fly up high till she reached the moon. Chang'E is regarded as the Goddess of Moon in the Chinese myth.
Formally, a perfect haiku, but it's so much more than that. You tell a complex story in just a few images. So much happens in that gap between lines 2 and 3! That's where the creative energy of this poem resides. Coiled energy always accumulates in a haiku, and in your poem I can really feel it.
I'm glad you liked my small Haiku. In China, Chang'e is often used as a metaphor for homesickness and loneliness. When we see the moon, we'll think of the Goddess of Moon Chang'e... Thank you Daniel for your nice comment!
A beautiful haiku in the traditional 5-7-5. So is the picture, and your narration of the legend of Chang'E will be helpful and informative to readers.
Thank you Kwai Chee for your comment! I know you are good at Haiku writing. Let's keep on.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Nice work with the muse of your imagination. Thanks for sharing.