This four-line poem was written by Saigō Takamori to his father:
The child is determined to go to the countryside, or he will not return if he succeeds.
Mulberry fields don't need to bury bones, and life is everywhere.
My child has made up his mind to go out of his hometown and never come back until he has achieved something in his studies. Why bury the bones in the land of my hometown after death? The motherland has beautiful mountains and rivers, which can be used as a resting place.
Appreciation of "Four Musts: Changing Saigō Takamori's Poems into Fathers"
The first two sentences directly express the author's ambition and ambition to go home without starting a career. The last two sentences are quoted from the classics, which digs the poetry described in the previous sentence into a deeper artistic conception. While using the words of Japanese poets, they quoted the classic words in China's Scriptures, expressing the meaning that a man is cosmopolitan and my hero is cosmopolitan, which is both popular and elegant.
The whole poem is easy to understand and rhymes smoothly, which makes people read fluently. Through the use of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classic words, it has become a poem of its own will. Concise but not simple, popular and elegant, it is the true expression of the great man's mentality and ambition. A great man with extraordinary ambition, intelligence, stubbornness, extraordinary memory and tenacious perseverance is heading for the first turning point in life.