Ode to a Wanderer is a five-character ancient poem written by Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This is an ode to maternal love. The whole poem consists of six sentences and three crosses. By recalling a seemingly ordinary scene of mending clothes before he left, he highlighted and praised the greatness and selflessness of maternal love, and expressed the poet's gratitude for maternal love and deep love and respect for his mother. This poem is sincere and natural and has been widely read for thousands of years.
Meng Jiao (751-814) was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. Huzhou (now Deqing County, Zhejiang Province) was born in Wu Kang and Pingchang (now Linyi County, Dezhou, Shandong Province). He once lived in Luoyang [1-4] (now Luoyang, Henan Province) and then lived in seclusion in Songshan. [5-6]
Meng Jiao made two attempts to become a scholar. He was a scholar at the age of forty-six, and once served as a county commandant in Liyang. Unable to realize his ambition, he wandered among fairies and wrote poems. Even the official business was wasted, and the county magistrate changed a fake one. Later, he was recommended by He Nanyin and Zheng Yuqing to work in Henan (now Luoyang, Henan) and spent most of his later years in Luoyang. In the ninth year of Yuanhe, Zheng Yuqing once again recruited him to join the army in Xingyuan House, but he took his wife to Ganxiang (now Lingbao, Henan Province), died of sudden illness and was buried in Luoyang East [2]. Zhang Ji called himself "Mr. Yao Zhen" in private.
Meng Jiao's poems. Because most of his poems describe the cruel world and the sufferings of the people, he is called "the poet's prison" and "the island of thin suburbs" with Jia Dao. There are more than 500 poems by Meng, among which short stories and five ancient poems are the most. Today's biography of Meng Dongye's poems is 10.
A traveler's song
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.
Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Vernacular translation:
A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand.
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 child's filial piety as weak as grass can repay the kindness of such a loving mother as Chunhui Puze?
Creative background:
Ode to a Wanderer was written in Liyang. Under the title of this poem, Meng Jiao wrote: "Welcome to work, Mother Li". Meng Jiao was homeless in his early years and poor all his life. It was not until he was 50 years old that he got a humble position as a county magistrate in Liyang. After years of wandering and wandering, he lived with his mother. The poet was frustrated in his career and suffered from the indifference of the world. At this time, he felt the value of his family more and more, so he wrote this heartfelt and touching poem praising his mother.