Meng Jiao? Tang dynasty
The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance 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?
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The kind mother is holding a needle and thread in her hand, making new clothes for the children who are going on a long trip.
Before leaving, he sewed the needle tightly for fear that his son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who said that a weak and filial person can repay the kindness of such a loving mother as Chunhui Puze?
This is an ode to maternal love. The whole poem consists of six sentences and three crosses. 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. Although there is no algae painting or carving, its fresh, smooth, simple and plain language contains rich and mellow poetry, which has been widely read for thousands of years.
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 sews carefully and makes up thoroughly, fearing that the delay will make him come home late", deepen this kind of flesh-and-blood affection through the action and psychological depiction of the loving mother rushing to make clothes for the wanderer. 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 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.
Other versions of vagrant songs
A traveler's song
Yi Lee? Tang dynasty
A woman is ashamed of her husband's thinness, and a guest is ashamed of her master's meanness.
Meet with the crowd, and meet with shame.
You're not a bronze mirror, so what?
Just because you don't touch clothes and dust doesn't mean that your heart is practicing.
Be a Rong Sheng in life, but don't get tired of being a scholar.
You see how different the arrows are on the string when the day flies.
A traveler's song
Gu Kuang? Tang dynasty
Therefore, I am tired of thinking about horses, so I am fascinated by birds.
Clouds cover my hometown and wanderers sing.
A wanderer is sad for a long time, but a cloud is Yu Dongcen.
There are no acacia trees in the guest room, and the leaves are like Qiu Lin.
It's hard to wander far away, so I'm sad and slutty.
One is floating characters, who can ban it if you are angry?
Within a hundred years of returning to China, I only wish to express my admiration.
Hu Weiwei didn't return, but sat down and made Nian sick.
It is not a burning heart before the old frost around the sideburns.
What's so hard about Taihang? Beidou cannot fall.
The night was quiet and the stars came out. I was worried.
A beauty is a beauty, and a ruler is more important than gold.
The crowd was different and silent.
Moss on the idle steps and crickets on the cold anvil.
There are several mistakes in the plan, so there is no room for danger.
Wan Li is honored not to go home for three years.
Dreams and souls have no heavy obstacles and are indifferent to the past and the present.
Hu Weiwei didn't return, and failed the piano in the box.
What's under the waist? I am looking for it.
During the dynasty and the famous mountain period, Chu Shuiyin stayed in the evening.
Chu water is extraordinary, and famous mountains and rivers are winding.
Guests come from Dongting, and the elegant house is deep in Xiaoxiang.
Oranges and pomelos are in the south, and geese stay in autumn.
Below is the green grass island and above is the green orange forest.
Looking into the hole with a candle, Ling Bo saw the sky.
The shadow of Puhe River is uneven, and the crane chicks are soaked.
Haug cherishes Du Fang and sends out light hairpins.
Hu Weiwei did not return, and his clothes were stained with tears.
Kites fly against the sky, and worms make mandarin fish.
Glorious Great Sage, the sun and the moon shine.
Although the Lord is a disciple, the strange people are divided into Shen Shen.
The tower is on the cloud and the palace is on the ball.
The deer is full of grass, and the situation is dangerous.
A traveler's song
Chen Tao? Tang dynasty
Living in Wu is like Lin Shu. I am shocked and hurt.
Snow is three feet away from the river, where is Tianshan Mountain.
The north wind has no heavy clothes, and servants and horses are hungry and cold.
It's hard to leave your wife.
Men have clear values, are they long clay pots?
Who is the puppet, who waits for the golden lamp.
Depressed and poor, carefree and unprovoked.
If you can't get into the name, you can't retreat from the rock.
The poor have passed, and the situation is like jumping pills.
It's heartbreaking to be rich and bitter.
Swear that the spring sun will shake Mo Xiaohan.
Zaqu Gezi Youzi
Wandering? Or "Zaqu, Stray Songs"
Yi Lee? Tang dynasty
A woman is ashamed of her husband, and a guest is ashamed of her master.
Meet with the crowd, and meet with shame.
You're not a bronze mirror, so what?
Just because you don't touch clothes and dust doesn't mean that your heart is practicing.
Be a Rong Sheng in life, but don't get tired of being a scholar.
You see how different the arrows are on the string when the day flies.