1. "Farewell to My Mother" - Huang Jingren of the Qing Dynasty?
Pull the curtains to pay homage to my mother and go to the river beam. I will be worried for a long time and my eyes will dry up with tears.
It was a miserable snowy night in Chaimen, and having children at this time was worse than having none.
Translation: Lifting up the curtains, I was reluctant to say goodbye to my elderly mother because I was going to Heliang to make a living. When I saw the gray-haired old mother, I couldn’t help but burst into tears, and my tears dried up. . What's the use of raising a son if he can't be reunited with his mother on this windy and snowy night, so he leaves behind this tragic separation? It's better not to have one.
2. "Missing Mother" - Song Dynasty and Gong
The frost wiped out the tears of the reed flowers, and the clothes were wet, and the white heads no longer leaned on the wood door.
During the yellow plum rain in May last year, Zeng Dian returned home from shopping for rice.
Translation: Seeing the autumn frost blowing the reed flowers all over the sky, I shed tears of sadness. My old mother with white hair will never come to the door to lean on the Chaimen to look forward to me and visit me again. Me. During the yellow plum season in May last year, my family ran out of food, so I had to pawn my cassocks and buy rice to go home and support my elderly mother.
Seven-character quatrain is a genre of traditional Han poetry, referred to as Qijue, and belongs to the category of modern poetry.
This style of poem consists of four sentences, each sentence has seven words, and has strict metrical requirements in terms of rhyme and adhesion. The poetry style originated from the Yuefu song line of the Southern Dynasty or the Yuefu folk songs of the Northern Dynasty, or can be traced back to the folk songs of the Western Jin Dynasty. It was finalized and matured in the Tang Dynasty. Representative works include Wang Changling's "Two Farewells to Xin Jian at Furong Tower", Li Bai's "Early Departure from Baidi City", Du Fu's "Jiangnan Meets the Year of Li Gui", and Li Shengjiao's "Reflections on Watching the Tide", etc.