Original text:
When I was a child,
Nostalgia was like a small stamp,
I was here,
My mother is over there.
When I grow up,
Nostalgia is a narrow ticket,
I am here,
The bride is there head.
Later,
Nostalgia is like a short grave,
I am outside,
My mother is inside.
And now,
Nostalgia is like a shallow strait,
I am at this end, and
the mainland is at the other end.
People who are far away from home often miss their hometown. Missing their relatives is just like the voice and appearance of the missing relatives are most likely to appear in front of their eyes. The voice and appearance of their hometown always linger in the mind of the wanderer. The poet gives poetic flavor to this most common and deepest thought. The sound of my hometown in the poem is the distant sound of the flute, which always sounds on moonlit nights. The moon is the brightness of my hometown.
In the ancient poem's image of homesickness on a moonlit night, the soul-stirring clear and distant flute sound is added. In sharp contrast to the local accent of Qingyuan, the appearance of my hometown "is a kind of vague melancholy".
Source: From the modern poem "Nostalgia" by the famous contemporary writer and poet Yu Guangzhong.
Extended information:
Creative background:
Yu Guangzhong has been engaged in poetry, prose, commentary, and translation all his life. He calls himself the "fourth dimension" of his writing and is known as Known as the "bright five-color pen" in the literary world[4]?. He has been in the literary world for more than half a century, covering a wide range of topics, and is known as an "artistic polygamist." His literary career is long, vast and profound. He is a master of contemporary poetry, an important prose writer, a famous critic and an excellent translator.
"Nostalgia" was written in 1972. Yu Guangzhong's ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. Yu Guangzhong left the mainland for Taiwan in 1949. Due to political reasons at that time, Taiwan was isolated from the mainland for a long time, resulting in Yu Guangzhong not returning to the mainland for many years. Yu Guangzhong has always missed his relatives and longed for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of his relatives. In a strong sense of homesickness, Yu Guangzhong wrote the song "Nostalgia" in his old residence on Xiamen Street in Taipei.