Yin of the Wandering Son
Author: Meng Jiao Era: Tang Genre: Yuefu
The thread in the hands of the loving mother, the clothes on the body of the wandering son. Departure thick seam, meaning fear of delay in return.
Whoever speaks an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
Notes:
1. Inch of grass: metaphor is very small.
2. Sanchunhui: Sanchun refers to Mengchun, Zhongchun and Jichun in spring; Hui means sunshine; it describes maternal love like the warm sunshine in spring.
Rhyme translation:
The kind mother holds needle and thread in her hand.
Make new clothes for the children who are traveling far away.
Before leaving, she was busy sewing tightly,
because she was worried that her child would never come back.
Who can say that a little bit of filial piety like Xiaocao can repay the kindness of a loving mother like Chunhui?
Commentary: This is an ode to maternal love. The poem eulogizes the great human beauty - maternal love, cordially and sincerely. In the first two sentences of the poem, the people described are mother and son, and the objects described are threads and clothes, but they point out the flesh-and-blood relationship between mother and son who depend on each other for life. The middle two sentences focus on the movements and mood of the loving mother, showing the mother's deep love for her son.
Although there are no words or tears, it is full of pure love, gripping and making people cry. The last two sentences are a sublimation of the first four sentences. They use popular metaphors to express the fiery feelings of the innocent children. How can children like spring-like maternal love and grass-like children
How about repaying the unexpected? The whole poem has no gorgeous words or clever decorations. It is full of rich and mellow poetic flavor in the fresh, smooth, simple and plain language. It is sincere and sincere. The reader's heartstrings arouse the screams of thousands of wanderers.