Notes:
1. Wanderer: a person who travels far away.
2. Fear: worry.
3. Inch of grass: The metaphor is very small.
4. Three Chunhui: refers to the kindness of a loving mother. Sanchun: three months of spring. It used to be called the first month of the lunar calendar as Meng Chun, February as Mid-Spring, and March as Ji Chun; Hui means sunshine; it describes maternal love like the warm sunshine in spring.
5. Yin: say
6. Return: come back
Translation:
The kind mother holds the needle and thread in her hand, < /p>
Make new clothes for the children who are traveling far away.
Before leaving, she was busy sewing tightly,
because she was worried that the child would never come back after leaving.
Who can say that a son with a little filial piety like Xiaocao can repay a loving mother like Chunhui?
The deep maternal love bathes the children all the time. However, for Meng Jiao, a wanderer who has been homeless all year round, the most memorable thing is the painful moment of separation between mother and son. This poem describes the ordinary scene of a loving mother sewing at such a time, but it expresses the poet's deep inner emotions. The first two sentences, "The thread in the hands of a loving mother, and the clothes on a wanderer's body" are actually two phrases, not two sentences. Written in this way, it highlights the two most common things from people to things, and writes about the flesh and blood of mother and child depending on each other. feeling. The next two sentences describe the person's movements and moods, focusing the pen and ink on the loving mother. At this moment before departure, the old mother was stitching stitches and threads so finely. She was afraid that her son would never come home, so she wanted to sew the clothes to be stronger. In fact, the old man was really looking forward to his son's safe return as soon as possible! The deep affection of a loving mother is revealed in the smallest details of daily life. Simple, natural, friendly and touching. There are neither words nor tears here, but pure love overflows from this common scene, touching the heartstrings of every reader, making people cry, and arousing the cordial association and deep remembrance of children all over the world.
The last two sentences, based on the intuition of the person involved, reveal a deeper meaning: "Whoever speaks from the heart will be rewarded with three rays of spring." "Who speaks" is sometimes written as "who knows" and "who knows" Who will", in fact, according to the poetic meaning, it is better to say "who will say". The poet asked a rhetorical question, which is particularly meaningful. These two sentences are the sublimation of the first four sentences, a comparison of popular images, and a suspenseful contrast, expressing the fierce affection of the child: for the mother's love as rich and generous as the sunshine in spring, how can the children who are just like grass repay the love in case? Woolen cloth. It really has the meaning of "the virtue you want to repay, Haotian will not do anything", and the feelings are so honest and sincere.
This is an ode to maternal love. When the poet was frustrated in his official career, he experienced the harshness of the world and suffered from poverty and sorrow all his life, so he became more and more aware of the value of family affection. "Poetry comes from the heart, and the heart often feels sad" (Su Shi's "Reading Meng Jiao's Poems"). Although this poem has no algae paintings or carvings, it is fresh and smooth, simple and bland, which shows the rich and mellow poetic flavor.