1. My father knows that I am here after receiving the letter, and a small pavilion is opened for you by the water. ——Su Shi's "Farewell to Jia Na's Wrown Eyebrows"
Interpretation: When the elders in my hometown see this letter from me, it is like seeing me. My door here is always open to you.
2. I feel sorry for my parents, who gave me a hard time. ——Anonymous "Polygonium"
Interpretation: Poor my father and mother, raising me is too tiring!
3. My father gave birth to me, and my mother bowed to me. Caress me, feed me, grow me and nurture me, take care of me and return me, go in and out of your belly. Desire to repay virtue. Haotian is extremely stupid! ——Anonymous "Polygonium"
Interpretation: Dad, you gave birth to me, mother, you fed me. You protect me, love me, raise me and nurture me. You miss me and don’t want to leave me. You embrace me when you go out of your house. I want to repay my parents for their great kindness, but it is difficult to predict the disasters God will bring!
4. The father plowed the plains and went to the fields, while the son went to the wilderness in the mountains. ——Nie Yizhong's "Tian Family"
Interpretation: The father plows the fields in the mountains, and the son opens up wasteland at the foot of the mountains.
5. The male and female scream in the air, but they never come back. ——Bai Juyi's "Poetry on Swallows Revealed to Liu Sou"
Interpretation: Two swallows, male and female, screamed in the air, even though they were hoarse, they couldn't call back.
6. When I arrived, my parents knew that they were going to be separated from each other, so they wore heavy clothes as if they were going to die. ——Wang Jian's "Crossing the Liao River"
Interpretation: Before leaving home, my parents already knew that they would be separated by a vast sea, and it would be difficult to get together again in this life. Before I left, my mother made some new clothes for me, as if she was afraid that I would never come back, and if I died on the road, I would not have clean clothes to bury me in.
7. The idiot does not know the etiquette between father and son, so he asks for food in anger and cries about Mendong. ——Du Fu's "Collection of Hundred Worries"
Interpretation: Only the idiot is childish and ignorant, hungry, facing the east kitchen door, crying and angry, begging for food.
8. My love for my son is endless, and I will be happy to return home. ——Jiang Shiquan's "Arrived Home at the End of the Year"
Interpretation: The love for children is endless, and the happiest thing is for the wanderer to return in time.
9. My parents read it at that time, but you should know it today. ——Bai Juyi's "The Poems of Yan Revealed to Liu Sou"
Interpretation: How much your parents cared about you when you abandoned your parents, you should experience it today!
10. Whoever says nothing will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
——Meng Jiao's "Wandering Son's Song"
Explanation: Who dares to say that children with filial piety as weak as Xiaocao can repay the kindness of parents like Chunhui Puze?