Double Ninth Festival - Poem

Poem

There is an often-quoted poem about the holiday:

九月九日憶山東兄弟

獨在異鄉為異客,

每逢佳節倍思親.

遙知兄弟登高處,

遍插茱萸少一人.

- "Double Ninth, Missing My Shandong Brothers" — Wang Wei (王維), Tang Dynasty

English:

On the ninth day of the ninth month, I remember my brothers from Shan Dong.

As a lonely stranger in a foreign land,

At every holiday my homesickness increases.

Far away, I know my brothers have reached the peak;

They are planting flowers, but one is not present.