This poem was written in 1972. Yu Guangzhong's ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. He left the mainland for Taiwan Province Province on 1949. At that time, due to political reasons, Taiwan Province Province was isolated from the mainland for a long time, which prevented Yu Guangzhong from returning to the mainland for many years. He has always missed his loved ones and longed for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of his loved ones. With strong homesickness, the poet wrote this poem in his former residence in Xiamen Street, Taipei.
Yu Guangzhong's life was in frequent escape and migration, and he was separated from his relatives many times. 197 1 year, Yu Guangzhong, who hasn't returned to the mainland for more than 20 years, was homesick, and wrote the poem "Homesickness" in his former residence in Xiamen Street, Taipei. Homesickness is a modern poem written by the poet Yu Guangzhong. Poetry expresses a kind of nostalgia for hometown.
This poem also embodies the poet Yu Guangzhong's good wish for the early reunification of the Chinese nation. On the 20 15 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Jia Lei sang a song "Homesickness" adapted from poetry.
Through the time series of "when I was a child", "when I grew up", "later" and "now", the poem concretizes the abstract homesickness with stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, summarizes the poet's long life course and endless homesickness for the motherland, and reveals the poet's profound sense of history. The whole poem has simple language and deep feelings.