A traveler's song
Author Meng Jiao? Tang dynasty?
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The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son.
A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
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 filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Meng Jiao, (75 1 ~ 8 14), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word dongye. Han nationality, born in Wu Kang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang), originally from Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong) and living in Luoyang (now Henan). A famous poet in Tang Dynasty. There are more than 500 existing poems, most of which are short five-character ancient poems, which are represented as Ode to a Wanderer. Known as the "poet's prison", it is also as famous as Jia Dao, and is called "Jiaohan Island Thin". In the ninth year of Yuanhe, he died in Ganxiang (now Lingbao, Henan). Zhang Ji married Mr Yao Zhen privately.
reference data
Xiao Difei et al. A Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry. Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1983.