Meng Jiao
Famous sentence: but there is a little affection for an inch of grass, and I have three rays of spring!
Guide reading
This is the most famous work in Meng Jiao's poetry. This poem eulogizes the ordinary and great maternal love in simple language, and is the most widely circulated poem in Tang poetry.
Original poem
The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
But how much love does an inch of grass have, and it is rewarded with three spring rays!
To annotate ...
Wanderer: refers to a person who leaves his parents and goes out. 2 inch grass heart: the tender heart of the grass means that the wanderer's return to maternal love is minimal. Inch of grass: grass, metaphor for children. ③ Sanchun: Spring lasts for three months, namely, Meng Chun, Midspring and Ji Chun, so it is called Sanchun. Hui: Sunshine is a metaphor for a mother's love for her children.
Translate poetry
When I left home, my mother was still busy very late.
I am in a hurry to make new clothes for my long-distance son.
When she left, the needle and thread in her hand were sewn thin and dense.
I'm afraid my son can't go home soon because of a cold.
Who says children have brains like grass,
I can repay my dear mother for the sunshine in spring!
Make an appreciative comment
Ode to a Wanderer, through sewing clothes for a wanderer, a common scene in daily life, sincerely praises the great maternal love, condenses the deep love of the mother with a needle and a thread, and expresses the wandering's yearning for the loving mother.
At the beginning of the poem, the poet chose a close-up to describe the wandering son's memory of his mother hastily making clothes for him when he was about to leave home and earnestly urging him. This typical life detail vividly and accurately shows the kinship between the wanderer and the loving mother, which not only shows the loving mother's meticulous care and love for her son, but also implies the origin of the wanderer's yearning for his mother, which makes people feel very cordial to read. In the middle, I reviewed the details of my mother's "secret sewing" and worried about the delay of her psychological activities that would make her come home late. These two poems, combined with reality, further show the mother's deep love for the wanderer, and also pave the way for the lyric comments in the last two sentences. Finally, the phrase "but how much love there is for an inch of grass, enjoy three rays of spring" is a thought-provoking famous sentence. It expresses gratitude to the mother from the perspective of children, and praises maternal love with metaphors and symbols. Here, "the heart of an inch of grass" is a metaphor for children's hearts; "Three Chunhui" is a metaphor for maternal love, which is both typical and appropriate. The question "Who said that" is thought-provoking and can arouse readers' attention. It vividly inspires people that children should repay their selfless love for their mothers with their lives.
With vivid details and natural and fluent language, the whole poem shapes the image of a "loving mother" and expresses the children's gratitude and love for their mother, which has universal social significance. Therefore, it has become the most popular and widely read masterpiece in Tang poetry.