Chinese poems · 王维 Wang Wei · Tang dynasty
九月九日忆山东兄弟 Missing My Brothers on the Double Ninth
Written at seventeen, alone in a strange city on the Double Ninth Festival. Its second line, 每逢佳节倍思亲, is what Chinese people still say when they miss family at a holiday.
独在异乡为异客，
Alone in a strange land, a stranger,
每逢佳节倍思亲。
at every festival I miss my family twice as much.
遥知兄弟登高处，
Far away, I know, my brothers have climbed the heights,
遍插茱萸少一人。
all wearing dogwood, and one of us is missing.
What does 九月九日忆山东兄弟 mean?
九月九日忆山东兄弟 is “Missing My Brothers on the Double Ninth”. Written at seventeen, alone in a strange city on the Double Ninth Festival. Its second line, 每逢佳节倍思亲, is what Chinese people still say when they miss family at a holiday.
What is the pinyin of 九月九日忆山东兄弟?
dú zài yì xiāng wéi yì kè / měi féng jiā jié bèi sī qīn / yáo zhī xiōng dì dēng gāo chù / biàn chā zhū yú shǎo yī rén.
Who wrote 九月九日忆山东兄弟?
Wang Wei (王维), a poet of the Tang dynasty.
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Poems over a thousand years old; the English and pinyin are ours, the pinyin as Chinese schools teach it.