A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand. Before leaving, he sewed a needle tightly for fear that his son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. Who can say that a child's filial piety as weak as grass can repay the kindness of such a loving mother as Chunhui Puze?
Wandering Son is a five-character Yuefu poem written by Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
The whole poem is three sentences and three forks. By recalling a seemingly ordinary scene of mending clothes before he left, he highlighted and praised the greatness and selflessness of maternal love, and expressed the poet's gratitude for maternal love and deep love and respect for his mother. This poem is sincere and natural and has been widely read for thousands of years.
Original poetry
A traveler's song
Author Meng Jiao? the Tang Dynasty
The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Word annotation
1 "Ode to a Wanderer": The original note under the title: "Mu Ying Li Shangzuo." At that time, the author did it when he was an official in Liyang County. ?
2 chanting: chanting, reciting.
Wanderer: a person who travels far away. The author himself.
4 Pro: Soon.
5 fear: I am worried.
6: Go home.
7 inch grass: grass, here is a metaphor for children.
8 Sanchunhui: The bright sunshine in spring refers to the kindness of a loving mother. Sanchun: In the past, the first month of the lunar calendar was called Meng Chun, February was called Midspring, and March was called Ji Chun, collectively known as Sanchun. Hui: Sunshine. Describe maternal love as the warm sunshine that shines on children in spring.
Creation background
Meng Jiao, a vagrant, lived in poverty in his early years. It was not until he was 50 years old that he got a humble position as a county commandant in Liyang, ending his long-term wandering life and living with his mother. This poem was written at this time. Naturally, the poet didn't take such a small official to heart, and he still only looked at the scenery and sang hymns, but no one asked about his official duties. The county magistrate only gave 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.
The poet was frustrated in his career and suffered from the indifference of the world. At this time, he felt the value of his family more and more, so he wrote this heartfelt and touching poem praising his mother. The affection of loving mother is shown in trivial life. I was worried that my son would not be able to go home for a long time, so I sewed a stitch and a thread, carefully and densely, and sewed love and care on the clothes of the wanderer.
Overall appreciation
Deep 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.
The first two sentences, "thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward boy's body", closely link "loving mother" and "wandering son" with two very common things, and write the flesh-and-blood feelings of mother and child. Three or four sentences, "She sewed carefully and mended thoroughly, fearing that the delay would make him go home late", deepened this kind of flesh-and-blood affection by describing the actions and psychology of loving mother making clothes for wanderers. The mother sewed thousands of stitches for fear that her son would "delay" and could not come back. Great maternal love is naturally revealed through the details of daily life. The first four sentences are very simple, without any modification, but the image of loving mother is really touching.
The last two sentences, "Only an inch of grass has a little affection, and three wisps of spring scenery are appreciated", are the author's heartfelt eulogies of love for his mother. These two sentences adopt the traditional contrast method: children are like grass, and maternal love is like spring sunshine. How can a child repay a mother's love in case? The contrast and metaphor of images entrust the son's heartfelt love for his loving mother.
This is an ode to maternal love. The poet, frustrated in his official career, experienced a cold world and a sad life, so he felt the value of family more and more. "Poetry is born from the heart, and sorrow should be the heart" (Su Shi's Reading Meng Jiao's Poems). Although this poem is not carved with algae paintings, it is fresh, smooth and unpretentious, which shows that its poetic flavor is rich and mellow.
This poem artistically reproduces the ordinary and great beauty of human nature that people feel, so it has won strong praise from countless readers for thousands of years. Until the Qing Dynasty, two poets in Liyang sang such a poem: "My father's books are full of laundry, and the bus is full of me" (Shi Qisheng's "Writing about my bosom"), "How many tears I always shed, dyed my hands and sewed clothes" (Peng Gui's "Visiting my mother for the first time"), which shows that this poem left a deep impression on future generations.
Brief introduction of the author
Meng Jiao (75 1-8 14), the author of Wandering Songs, was born in Wu Kang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang) in the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 500 existing poems, among which the short five-character ancient poems are the most, and there is no rhyme. His masterpiece is Wandering Sons.