A thread in the hands of a kind mother? Make clothes for her wayward son.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Source of works
It is a five-character Yuefu poem written by Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
The whole poem is three sentences and three forks. By recalling a seemingly ordinary scene of mending clothes before he left, he highlighted and praised the greatness and selflessness of maternal love, and expressed the poet's gratitude for maternal love and deep love and respect for his mother. This poem is sincere and natural and has been widely read for thousands of years.
original work
A traveler's song
Tang mengjiao
A thread in the hands of a kind mother? Make clothes for her wayward son.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Word annotation
1, "Wandering Sons": The original note under the title: "Mu Ying Li Shangzuo." At that time, the author did it when he was an official in Liyang County. ?
2, chanting: chanting, reading.
3. Wanderer: A person who travels far away. The author himself.
4. Professor: Soon.
5. Fear: I am worried.
6. Return: Go home.
7, inch grass: grass, here is a metaphor for children.
8. Sanchunhui: The bright sunshine in spring refers to the kindness of a loving mother. Sanchun: In the past, the first month of the lunar calendar was called Meng Chun, February was called Midspring, and March was called Ji Chun, collectively known as Sanchun. Hui: Sunshine. Describe maternal love as the warm sunshine that shines on children in spring.
Translation of works
Translation 1
The needle and thread in the loving mother's hand is to make clothes for her long-distance son.
Before leaving, he sewed a needle tightly for fear that his son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who says that children who are weak and filial as grass can repay the kindness of loving mothers like Chunhui Puze?
Translation 2
A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand. Before leaving, he sewed a needle tightly for fear that his son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. Who can say that a child's filial piety as weak as grass can repay the kindness of such a loving mother as Chunhui Puze?
Creation background
Meng Jiao drifted in his early years and was poor all his life. It was not until he was fifty years old that he got a humble position as a county commandant in Liyang, ending his years of wandering life and living with his mother. This poem was written at this time. Naturally, the poet didn't take such a small official to heart. He still only looked at the scenery and sang praises, but neglected his official duties. The county magistrate only paid him half a salary. Under this heading, the author notes that "Mu Ying Li Shang Zuo" is his work when he lived in Liyang. In the poem, an ordinary and great beauty of human nature, maternal love, is sung affectionately and truly, which has aroused the admiration of countless readers and won popularity for thousands of years.
The poet was frustrated in his career and suffered from the indifference of the world. At this time, he felt the value of his family more and more, so he wrote this heartfelt and touching poem praising his mother. The affection of loving mother is shown in trivial life. I was worried that my son would not be able to go home for a long time, so I sewed a stitch and a thread, carefully and densely, and sewed love and care on the clothes of the wanderer.
works appreciation
Deep maternal love bathes children all the time. However, for Meng Jiao, a wanderer who has been displaced all the year round, the most unforgettable moment is the painful moment of separation between mother and child. This poem describes the ordinary scene of loving mother sewing clothes at this time, but it shows the poet's deep feelings.
The first two sentences, "thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward boy's body", closely link "loving mother" and "wandering son" with two very common things, and write the flesh-and-blood feelings of mother and child. Three or four sentences, "She sewed carefully and mended thoroughly, fearing that the delay would make him go home late", deepened this kind of flesh-and-blood affection by describing the actions and psychology of loving mother making clothes for wanderers. The mother sewed thousands of stitches for fear that her son would "delay" and could not come back. Great maternal love is naturally revealed through the details of daily life. The first four sentences are very simple, without any modification, but the image of loving mother is really touching.
The last two sentences, "Only an inch of grass has a little affection, and three wisps of spring scenery are appreciated", are the author's heartfelt eulogies of love for his mother. These two sentences adopt the traditional contrast method: children are like grass, and maternal love is like spring sunshine. How can a child repay a mother's love in case? The contrast and metaphor of images entrust the son's heartfelt love for his loving mother.
This is an ode to maternal love. The poet, frustrated in his official career, experienced a cold world and a sad life, so he felt the value of family more and more. "Poetry is born from the heart, and sorrow should be the heart" (Su Shi's Reading Meng Jiao's Poems). Although this poem is not carved with algae paintings, it is fresh, smooth and unpretentious, which shows that its poetic flavor is rich and mellow.
This poem artistically reproduces the ordinary and great beauty of human nature that people feel, so it has won strong praise from countless readers for thousands of years. Until the Qing Dynasty, two poets in Liyang sang such a poem: "My father's books are full of laundry, and the bus is full of me" (Shi Qisheng's "Writing about my bosom"), "How many tears I always shed, dyed my hands and sewed clothes" (Peng Gui's "Visiting my mother for the first time"), which shows that this poem left a deep impression on future generations.
Famous comments
Liu Yun: Everything is happy, and in the end it is leisurely. The feeling of not saying anything is not a cold spring. Under the ages, I still don't forget the light, and poetry is especially immortal.
The return of Tang poetry: Gordon pai' ea chung-hoon: the words of benevolence and filial piety are natural and elegant.
Zhou Jing said: the moon is the first to be near the water tower. Grain Rain said: The so-called elegant sound is also.
"Tang Fenghuai": Nancun said: The second language is as soft as the wind, so that the son of man can read it and his feelings will naturally arise. He thinks that "heaven is chaotic" is still rational language (the last two sentences).
Don Ding Feng: Benevolence and filial piety remain the same.
Edited Poems in Jiuyuan: Zhenyuan, Yuanhe and Shidao began to mix, and each class had its own portal. Meng Dongye has the highest depth, such as "the thread in the hands of a loving mother ...", which is really advocated by the Six Classics and should be the first "secluded grass" in the whole Tang Dynasty to retreat for progress.
Cold Collection: This poem originated from bitter songs, so the words are not annoying and the meaning is exhausted. People outside the business looked at it and it seemed very casual.
Liu Hua: Meng Dongye's "The Thread in the Mother's Hand" is full of words and meanings, which is enough to be told with his "Cutting the Grass at Noon Every Day".
The meaning of Tang poetry: "I want to repay kindness, I am puzzled by heaven" is the same as that of Changli's "I should be punished for my crimes, and the heavenly king should be enlightened"
Brief introduction of the author
Meng Jiao (75 1-8 14) was a savage of Wu Kangdong in Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang) in the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 500 existing poems, among which the short five-character ancient poems are the most, and there is no rhyme. His masterpiece is Wandering Sons.
His ancestral home is Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong). Meng Jiao lived in Luoyang (now Henan) and lived in poverty in his early years, traveling in Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi. He has never met anyone and tried again and again. Meng Jiao went to see Zhang Jianfeng when he was guarding Xuzhou in Zhenyuan. At the age of 46 (45), he began to enter the Jinshi, and there is a poem "After the Senior High School Entrance Examination": "There was no limit to boasting in the past, but now there is no limit to debauchery; Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see all Chang 'an flowers in one day (the origin of the idiom "seeing flowers on horseback"). Then return to the east and go to Bianzhou (now Kaifeng, Henan) and Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (80 1), he served as Liyang Wei. When he was in office, he didn't serve Cao Cao. He often took pleasure in writing poems and was fined half a salary. Han Yu called him "the sour and cold captain of Liyang". In the first year of Yuanhe (806), He Nanyin and Zheng Yuqing played for the land and water transportation in Henan Province, tried to understand the law and settled in Luoyang. In the third year of Yuanhe (808), he became the minister of war and stayed in the East. At the age of 60, his mother died. In March of nine years, Zheng Yuqing was transferred to Shannan West Road as our time, guarding the apricot garden, and played Meng Jiao as a staff officer to judge Dali. Jiao was invited to Ganxiang (now Lingbao, Henan Province) and died of sudden illness. Meng Jiao's friend Han Yu and others collected 100 for his camp burial, and Zheng Yuqing sent someone to send 300 yuan, "for the widow's permanent dependence". Zhang Ji married Mr Yao Zhen privately.