Year: Tang Dynasty
Author: Meng Jiao
Genre: Poetry
The thread in the hand of a kind mother makes clothes for her wayward son's body. Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. But how much love there is in that inch-long grass, have you got three rays of spring?
The kind mother has a needle and thread in her hand, and she makes new clothes for the children who travel far away. Before leaving, she was busy sewing and worried that the child would come back late. Who can repay her mother's years of parenting with a little filial piety?
Background: Meng Jiao was poor all his life, and he didn't get a humble position as a county magistrate in Liyang until he was fifty years old. Naturally, the poet did not care about such a small official, but still cared about mountains and rivers, while his official duties were neglected, and the county magistrate only paid him half a salary. Under this heading, the author notes that "Mu Ying Li Shang Zuo" is his work when he lived in Liyang. In the poem, an ordinary and great beauty of human nature, maternal love, is sung affectionately and truly, which has aroused the admiration of countless readers and won popularity for thousands of years. This true and profound maternal love bathes children all the time. However, for Meng Jiao, a wanderer who has been displaced all the year round, the most unforgettable moment is the painful moment of separation between mother and child. This poem describes the ordinary scene of loving mother sewing clothes at this time, but it shows the poet's deep feelings.
About the author: Meng Jiao (75 1—8 14) was born in Dongye, Wukang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang). In his early years, he hid in Songshan, Henan. In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan [796], he began to enter Jinshi at the age of 46. In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan [800], he served as the deputy general of Liyang, and later resigned. In the first year of Yuanhe [806], he was transferred to Xingren as a staff officer and died on the way to his post. His friends and others regarded him as Mr.. There are more than 400 poems by Meng Jiao, most of which are Yuefu poems and ancient poems. Most of them pour out their personal worries and express their cynical thoughts and feelings. There are also some poems that expose the social phenomenon of the disparity between the rich and the poor and sympathize with the people's suffering life. He used words and sentences to avoid mediocrity and pursued Gu Zhuo's adventure, and his poetic style was cold and steep. He is a famous poet as famous as Han Yu and the pioneer of Han Meng's poetry school. It is also called "Thin Suburb Island" with Jia Dao.