The famous saying throughout the ages is: Whoever speaks from the heart of an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
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Meng Jiao (751-814), courtesy name Dongye, was a native of Wukang, Huzhou (now Deqing County, Zhejiang). In his early years, he lived in seclusion in Songshan Mountain, Henan Province. He failed in the last two examinations and was not admitted to Jinshi until he was forty-six years old. When he was 50 years old, he was appointed Liyang County Lieutenant. Because his ambition could not be realized, he wandered in the mountains and forests, reciting poems to make a living, and his official duties were too much. The county magistrate appointed someone else to take over the duties, and reduced his salary by half, and soon resigned. The officer goes home. Later, on the recommendation of Henan Yin Zheng Yuqing, he served as the land and water transport judge of Henan. He spent most of his later years in Luoyang. In the ninth year of Yuanhe reign of Emperor Xianzong, Zheng Yuqing once again hired him to join the army in Xingyuan Prefecture. He went with his family and died of illness on the way to his appointment. He was a stubborn man and lived in poverty all his life, so most of his poems expressed his personal ups and downs and exposed the harshness of the world. However, due to his personal poverty life, he had some understanding of the sufferings of the working people, so he wrote many poems such as "The Song of the Common People in the Cold Land" and "The Song of the Weaver Woman" that reflected the sufferings of the people. He is the author of "Meng Dongye Collection" and has more than 400 poems.
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Meng Jiao's loving mother has the thread in her hands, and the wanderer's clothes are on her body. Before leaving, I am afraid of returning late. Whoever says that the heart of an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
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The presence or absence of maternal love has always been an important factor for people (especially in childhood) to measure their happiness. This is not only because the mother is the benefactor of childbirth, but more importantly, the warmth of a broad and deep maternal love makes people feel happy and sweet. "Wandering Son Yin" captures this broad and profound emotion and expresses people's common feelings, which is why this poem has become a masterpiece passed down through the ages. "The thread is in the hands of a loving mother, and the clothes are on the wanderer's body." The beginning of the poem shows the reader the image of a loving mother who is busy doing needlework. Although the poet here did not describe the mother's voice and appearance, the image of a hard-working and kind old man is clearly visible. The old mother's hair was white, her eyes were dazzled, and her face was full of wrinkles. She was silently mending clothes for her son who was about to go out, stitch by stitch. This thread is the thread in the hands of a loving mother, and this clothes is the clothes on the wandering child. The poet deliberately picked out this very common scene that best expresses the love between mother and child, and woven maternal love densely stitch by stitch on the wandering child's clothes, making it People feel that it is extremely vivid and prominent. "Before leaving, there is a tight gap, and I am afraid that I will return later." This is the mother's inner emotion revealed. The son was going to travel far away from his mother, and the mother was reluctant to let him go, but she had to let him go for the sake of her son's future. At this time, the mother's mood is complicated. Is it nostalgia and concern? Or do you love the bitterness? It seemed that everything was there, so my mother combined all these various emotions into one stitch. The three words "tight seams" embody the mother's infinite love and affection for her children; she is afraid that her children will be left alone and cold without anyone to take care of them. She is worried that her son will not come back after a year and a half after going out, which makes the mother at home miss her day and night. In just two lines of poetry, the mother's love for her son is very real and touching. The last two sentences, "Who can say a word of grass, will be rewarded with three rays of spring light", express the wanderer's endless gratitude to his mother's love in a rhetorical tone. The spring sunshine warms the earth, and the grass breaks out of the ground and thrives under the nourishment of the sun. This gift of sunshine to the grass is just like the kindness of a mother to her children, which is too rich to repay. This vividly expresses the greatness and depth of maternal love and gives people profound inspiration. A mother's love for her children is manifested in all aspects and is omnipresent. However, this poem only selects an ordinary scene in which the mother sews clothes for the wanderer. It uses the small to see the big, showing the profoundness and breadth of maternal love, thus making the impression people get more concrete and real. And this is the ingenuity of the poet's writing.