I am your shabby old waterwheel by the river.
Old songs that have been spun for hundreds of years.
I am a miner's lamp with your forehead blackened.
When you grope in the tunnel of history.
I am a withered ear of rice; This is a roadbed that is in disrepair.
This is a barge on the beach.
Draw the rope deep
Pull it into your shoulder
-the motherland!
I am very poor.
I am sad
I am your ancestor.
Painful hope.
It's a flying sleeve.
Flowers that never fall to the ground for thousands of years
-Motherland
I am your brand-new ideal.
Just broke free from the mythical spider web.
I am the germ of your ancient lotus under the snow.
I am your tearful smile.
I am the newly painted white starting line.
This is crimson dawn.
Spraying
-Motherland
I am one billionth of you.
Is the sum of your 9.6 million square meters.
With your scarred breasts,
raise
Lost me, considerate me, boiling me.
And then from my flesh and blood
get
Your richness, your glory, your freedom.
-Motherland
My dear motherland!
"Motherland, My Dear Motherland" is one of Shu Ting's representative works, and it is an affectionate patriotic song. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinct characteristics and personality of the times-both the confused pain and happy hope of contemporary youth, and the true feelings of daughter's dissatisfaction and dedication to the motherland, blending with a deep sense of history and a strong sense of the times. The whole poem has novel ideas and sincere feelings, and sings the motherland from a unique angle. In order to express this deep feeling, the poet adopted a rhythm from low to high. Like crying and complaining, like sorrow and complaining, passionate and indomitable. The whole poem uses the method of alternate blending of subject and object, expressing the poet's blending consciousness and dedication to the motherland.