Alone I See No One (Shen Quanqi: Alone I See No One)

The young wife of the Lu family dwells in a splendid hall perfumed with turmeric, where pairs of sea swallows perch on beams adorned with tortoiseshell.

In the ninth month, the sound of beating clothes in the cold wind hastens the falling leaves, as she yearns for her husband who has guarded the frontier for ten years, far away in Liaoyang.

North of the White Wolf River, all news has long ceased; south of the Vermilion Phoenix City, the autumn nights feel endlessly long.

Who can understand her heart full of sorrow, with no one to meet, as the bright moon shines upon the yellow silk curtains of her loom?