Hold your hand and grow old with your son! What does that mean?

It means holding your hand and growing old with you. This sentence was originally an agreement between soldiers. Modern idioms often describe the eternity of love by holding hands and growing old together.

Source: The Book of Songs, National Style, Rough and Bold Drumming, which was anonymous in the Zhou Dynasty.

Excerpt from the original:

Life and death are generous, and Zi Cheng says. Hold your hand and grow old with your son.

Translation:

Live and die together, we have taken an oath. Let me hold your hand and die together on the battlefield.

Extended data

This is a homesick song sung by a soldier who has gone to a foreign country and can't go home for a long time. The whole poem consists of five chapters, each with four sentences. In the first three chapters, people are asked to tell the story of the expedition, which is dense and full of complaints. The last two chapters describe the mutual encouragement between soldiers, which is touching.

This poem describes the sorrow of foot soldiers' long-term campaign, which is hard to see. Among them, the description of soldiers' feelings is "life and death" and "zi cheng" "Hold your hand and grow old with your son" is also used to describe the deep friendship between husband and wife in later generations.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Guofeng Gao Feng Drums