Mooning Over You by Hannah Tjia

Title:	Mooning Over You
Date Created:	December 2022
Copyright:	© © Hannah Tjia
Genre:	Fantasy
Mediums:	Oils
Views:	159
Posted:	12/10/2023

Mooning Over You, sister painting to On the Same Side of the Sun, is based on the Chinese folktale “The Weaver and the Herdsman,” a story of forbidden love. When the daughter of the sky emperor, Zhinü, neglects her duties, spending her hours with her lover, the herdsman of heavenly water buffalos, instead of weaving the sunrises and sunsets, her parents separate them. Divided by a river of silver the two are allowed only one day of the year to see each other. Mooning Over You pictures the lonely nights of waiting, representing their forbidden love with moon flowers, as their blooms only last for a single night. While the nights may be many and the sorrow sustained, they only last as long as a night. Morning will dawn, and the day will come when the magpies will make a bridge and carry her to her love.