Poetry by Taiwanese poet Chiang Hsun

Taiwanese poet Jiang Xunzhi's "Young China"

We are separated by distant mountains and rivers

to visit the land of the motherland

You use Your footprints

I used my wanderer’s nostalgia

You told me

There is no nostalgia in ancient China

Nostalgia is given People from home

There is no homesickness in young China

Nostalgia is for those who cannot go home

We are separated by distant mountains and rivers

Go visit the land of the motherland

You use your footprints

I use my wanderer’s lament

You said to me

Old There are no elegies in China

Elegies are for people who have no home

Young China does not want elegies

Elegies are for people who have no home

We are separated by distant mountains and rivers

to visit the land of the motherland

You use your footprints

I use the homesickness of my wanderer

You told me

Young China has a new school

Her school is the earth and the mountains and rivers

Young China has a new teacher

Her teachers are the people of the earth