What kind of thoughts and feelings did Hometown Book express for the poet?

The book The Return of the Native expresses the poet's profound feelings about the vicissitudes of life, things are wrong and people are wrong through his feelings and experiences of returning to his hometown when he is old. I also wrote about the feeling of hurting the elderly for a long time. This is a sentimental poem about being away from home for a long time.

Original text:

Two hometown couplets

Tang Dynasty: He Zhangzhi

Young people leave home, old people return, and the local accent has not changed.

When children meet strangers, they will smile and ask where the guests are from.

I left my hometown when I was young and didn't come back until my twilight years. Although my local accent hasn't changed, my hair on my sideburns has become sparse. None of the children knew me when they saw me. They asked with a smile, where did this guest come from?

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Creation background

In 744 AD (the third year of Tianbao), He resigned from the imperial palace and retired to his hometown of Yongxing, Yuezhou (now Xiaoshan, Zhejiang). At that time, he was eighty-six years old, and he had left his hometown for more than fifty years in middle age. Life is easy to get old, the world is vicissitudes, and my heart is filled with emotion. So I wrote this poem.

This poem expresses the sadness of the author's long absence from other places, and also writes the intimacy of returning home after such a long absence.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-two pairs of homecoming lovers