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Terribly delayed for Mid-Autumn Festival, this was supposed to be a festive drawing, but...spending such occasion abroad, only loneliness and forlornness remain.
Also partly inspired by Tang dynasty's poet Qian Qi's poem, set to music in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde:

錢起(唐)-效古秋夜長

秋漢飛玉霜，北風雪荷香。
含情紡織孤燈盡，拭淚相思寒漏長。
檐前碧雲靜如水，月吊棲烏啼雁起。
誰家少婦事鴛機，錦幕雲屏深掩扉。
白玉窗中聞落葉，應憐寒女獨無依。

Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Autumn sky, jade-like frost drifting
Northerly wind carries lotus fragrance
With love, weaving till the lonely lamp fades
Wipe tears, fond memory, long cold night
Eaves edge, blue clouds pure like water
Rising moon, roosting birds caw; geese soar.
Whose young wife is weaving love birds on her loom?
Deeply concealed by silk curtain and inlaid screen
Listening to falling leaves by the white jade window
Pity the woman, chilled and alone without company

Description
Terribly delayed for Mid-Autumn Festival, this was supposed to be a festive drawing, but...spending such occasion abroad, only loneliness and forlornness remain.
Also partly inspired by Tang dynasty's poet Qian Qi's poem, set to music in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde:

錢起(唐)-效古秋夜長

秋漢飛玉霜，北風雪荷香。
含情紡織孤燈盡，拭淚相思寒漏長。
檐前碧雲靜如水，月吊棲烏啼雁起。
誰家少婦事鴛機，錦幕雲屏深掩扉。
白玉窗中聞落葉，應憐寒女獨無依。

Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Autumn sky, jade-like frost drifting
Northerly wind carries lotus fragrance
With love, weaving till the lonely lamp fades
Wipe tears, fond memory, long cold night
Eaves edge, blue clouds pure like water
Rising moon, roosting birds caw; geese soar.
Whose young wife is weaving love birds on her loom?
Deeply concealed by silk curtain and inlaid screen
Listening to falling leaves by the white jade window
Pity the woman, chilled and alone without company