The last sentence of "Three Chunhui": Who can tell the heart of an inch of grass
Source: Wandering Ziyin, author Meng Jiao.
Original text:
The thread in the hands of a loving mother, the clothes on the body of a wanderer.
Before leaving, I am worried that I will return later.
Whoever speaks an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
Translation:
The loving mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her son who was traveling far away.
Before leaving, I sewed stitch by stitch, fearing that my son’s clothes would be damaged if he came back late.
Who dares to say that children with filial piety as weak as Xiaocao can repay the kindness of Chunhui Puze?
This is an ode to maternal love. There are only six lines of thirty words in the whole poem, using the technique of line drawing. By recalling a seemingly ordinary scene of sewing before leaving, it highlights and praises the greatness and selflessness of maternal love, and expresses the poet's gratitude to maternal love and his love for his mother. Deep feelings of love and respect.
The emotion of this poem is sincere and natural. Although there is no painting or carving, it is fresh and smooth, and the simple and plain language contains a rich and mellow poetic flavor. It has been widely recited for thousands of years.
Extended information:
Creative background:
"Wandering Zi Yin" was written in Liyang (now Jiangsu). Meng Jiao's own annotation under the title of this poem: "Composed to welcome his mother in Li." Meng Jiao was homeless in his early years and lived in poverty all his life. It was not until the age of fifty that he got the humble position of a Liyang County captain, ending his long-term career. Living a wandering life, he took his mother to live with him.
The poet was frustrated in his official career and experienced the harshness of the world. At this time, he became more and more aware of the value of family love, so he wrote this heartfelt and deeply touching poem in praise of his mother.
This is an ode to maternal love. When the poet was frustrated in his official career, he experienced the harshness of the world and suffered from poverty and sorrow all his life, so he became more and more aware of the value of family affection. "Poetry comes from the heart, and the heart often feels sad" (Su Shi's "Reading Meng Jiao's Poems"). Although this poem has no paintings or carvings, it is fresh and smooth, simple and bland, which shows the rich and mellow poetic flavor.
Meng Jiao's "Wandering Son's Song" artistically reproduces the ordinary and great human beauty that people feel most, so it has won strong praise from countless readers for thousands of years. . Until the Qing Dynasty, two more poets in Liyang recited such verses: "The empty basket is full of father's letters, and the mother's thread lingers in my skirt" (Shi Qisheng's "Writing Hues"), "There have always been so many tears that stain my hands while sewing" (Peng Gui "Jianchu's younger brother came to the capital to visit his relatives and was very happy"), which shows the influence of this poem on future generations.
The author is Meng Jiao (751～814), a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The word is Dongye. Han nationality, a native of Wukang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang), his ancestral home is Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong), and his ancestors lived in Luoyang (now in Henan). A famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 500 existing poems, among which short five-character ancient poems are the most numerous. The representative work is "Wandering Son's Song". He is known as the "poem prisoner" and is as famous as Jia Dao. He is also known as "the thin island in the suburbs".
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