the song of the homeless
Dondum
The thread in the loving mother's hand,
Make clothes for her wayward son.
She sewed it carefully, mended it thoroughly,
Afraid that the delay would make him come home late.
But how much love does an inch of grass have,
Make three spring scenery.
Extension: translation
The kind mother has a needle and thread in her hand. In order to make new clothes for children who travel far away.
Before leaving, she was busy sewing because she was afraid that the child would never come back.
Who can say that a little grass-like filial piety can repay the kindness of a loving mother like Chunhui?
To annotate ...
Shu: It's just dawn.
Peng: It's over. Here refers to messy hair.
Nianlan: At the end of the year.
North wind: North wind, cold wind.
Heavy clothes: refers to extra clothes.
Tragedy: Also called "misery". Sad and sad.
Arrive late: I'm still wandering.
Ming Xiu: Used to praise a wise monarch or a prosperous era.
Mud tray: Bend in the mud. It is also a metaphor for getting into trouble.
Jumping pill: a metaphor for the movement of the sun and the moon. Time flies.
Make an appreciative comment
This is an ode to maternal love. This poem eulogizes the great beauty of human nature-maternal love. In the first two sentences of the poem, the person written is mother and son, and the thing written is thread and clothes, but it points out the love of flesh and blood between mother and son. The two sentences in the middle focus on the actions and attitudes of loving the mother, showing the mother's deep affection for her son. Although there are no words and no tears, it is full of pure love, which is exciting and makes people cry. The last two sentences are the sublimation of the first four sentences. Using the metaphor of popular image, we pinned our fervent feelings on this naked child. How can we repay our children like maternal love and grass in spring?
There is no flowery rhetoric or clever carving in the whole poem. In the fresh, smooth and unpretentious language, it is full of rich and mellow poetry and sincere feelings. For thousands of years, it has touched the heartstrings of many readers and caused thousands of wanderers to sing.
Author background
Meng Jiao (75 1-8 14) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Dongye was born in Wu Kang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang). When I was a teenager, I lived in Shan Hao, and Han Yu and I were good friends. I was poor all my life, and I didn't enter Jinshi until I was nearly 50 years old. Meng Jiao's poems are famous for their sharp voice, pursuit of strange ideas and thin language style, and expression of the lower class and their own poor life and experience. He is as famous as Jia Dao and is known as "a thin suburban island".
Annotation explanation
Wanderer: A person who travels far from home.
Italian fear: worry.
An inch of grass: grass. Inch grass heart: here refers to the heart of a wanderer.
Sanchunhui: the sunshine in spring. Here is a metaphor of maternal love. Three spring, early spring, mid-spring and late spring refer to the whole spring. Light, sunshine.
Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry
Needle and thread in the hands of a loving mother, clothes on people who travel far from home. When traveling, I have to sew tightly, fearing that my son will come back late. Who says the grass's mind can repay the glory of spring?
Appreciation of famous sentences-"But how much love does an inch of grass have? Do you have three rays of spring?"
Meng Jiao was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 50 and became a lieutenant of Liyang County. As a small official, he ended his long-term wandering life and lived with his mother. This poem was written at this time. The poem reveals the greatness of maternal love with a very ordinary and typical life detail: the old mother sewed the clothes for her son who was about to leave, and because she was worried that her son would not come back for a long time, she sewed them carefully, hoping that the more she sewed, the stronger she would be. The loving mother's deep love for her son was sewn into her clothes, and her son went all the way to Wan Li. This ordinary life scene, full of affection, has been experienced by each of us, so it can arouse every reader's * * * and arouse our memories and attachment to our mother. Motherly love is unrequited and inexhaustible for children, because it is as endless as the March sunshine feeding grass. Poetry is simple in picture, simple in language, profound in connotation and touching, so it can be widely read and passed down through the ages.
Poetry analysis
Meng Jiao's predecessor was Dongye, a native of Deqing, Zhejiang. After two experiments, this scholar is not the first. In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan in Dezong, at the age of forty-six, he was admitted as a scholar, and the official went hand in hand with the land. His life experienced the premature death of his ex-wife and the death of his third son. The ups and downs of his official career, the bitterness of his family and so on, but these experiences have a great influence on his ideological realm and creation. He lived in poverty all his life and was as stubborn as Geng Jie. Yuan He died of sudden illness in the 9th year (8 14). His former friend Han Yu and others raised 100 yuan for his camp burial, and Zheng Yuqing sent someone to give it to 300 yuan, which was regarded as "permanent support for his widow". Han Yu's predecessors admired his poems, while Su Shi's predecessors called them "suburban thinness". Meng Jiao and Jia Dao are both poor and miserable, with similar poetic styles. They are both famous for their bitter songs, and they are called "thin suburban islands" by later generations. Ten volumes of Meng Dongye Collection remain in later generations.
Probably, Meng Jiao's predecessors only wrote a poem that was in a good mood and flying in the sky, and it was After Graduation. "In the past, it was not enough to boast, but now there is no end to debauchery; Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see Chang 'an flowers all in one day. "This poem was written at the age of 46, when the poet was admitted to the imperial examination. After graduation, the poet was full of joy and excitement, dreaming of a bright future and realizing his pursuit of fame and fortune and ambition. The most wonderful thing is the last two sentences, "Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see all the Chang 'an flowers in one day." First of all, there is exaggeration. Horseshoe disease reflects the poet's surging mood as an adult. The banquet of Jinshi in Tang Dynasty was held in Qujiang Pavilion. A few days before the banquet, Jinshi rode in procession from the street and the river. This is the so-called cycling around the street. Not only the public can watch, but also the dignitaries compete to comment, and they are often chosen as their daughter's son-in-law by these officials. Because once the scholar who took part in the imperial examination won the top prize, he was like a "carp jumping at the dragon gate" and immediately became a new powerful person with a "sweet name of 33 people". It is a great satisfaction to see all the flowers in spring in one day on Chang 'an Avenue. Secondly, the scenes are compatible, and all scenes are based on feelings. What a proud person sees must be the wonderful scenery caused by flowers. Therefore, "the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see all the Chang 'an flowers in one day" has become a favorite phrase of later generations. In a word, this poem shows the poet's satisfaction with the integration of scenery and emotion.
Ode to a Wanderer, which is famous by Meng Jiao's predecessors for praising great maternal love, has aroused many songs of children in China for thousands of years and touched the heartstrings of filial piety of children all over the world. "The thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward children; Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. However, an inch of long grass is a bit sentimental, and it is rewarded with three spring rays. " From her work of sewing clothes for her son who is going to travel far away, the author reveals her infinite love for her son. How do Yu Can Xiaocao's children repay their loving mothers for their spring-like upbringing? For thousands of years, people in China have been using this poem to educate their children's moral quality.
There is an old saying in Greater China: "Filial piety is the first virtue". Filial piety should be the first of all virtues. If a person does not honor his parents, it is hard to imagine his character and personality. Mencius said: "There are five so-called unfilial people in the secular world: lazy, regardless of their parents' support, unfilial; The game is good at drinking, regardless of parents' support, and it is unfilial; Good wealth, private wife regardless of parental support, three unfilial; From the desire for eyes and ears, I thought that my parents were killed and four were unfilial; I am brave, I am dangerous to my parents and I am unfilial. " Mencius said: "There are five kinds of unfilial: lazy limbs, regardless of parents' life and death, unfilial;" "Good at playing chess and drinking, regardless of parents' lives, two unfilial; Greedy for money, favoring his wife and children, regardless of his parents' life and death, three unfilial; Indulge in the desire of eyes and ears, make parents humiliated, four unfilial; Brave and aggressive, endangering parents, five unfilial. " I think filial piety to parents can be summarized into two types: one is empty filial piety, that is, taking busy work and leaving home as an excuse, and the filial piety of children to their parents means saying it in their mouths, writing it on paper and thinking about it in their hearts. A kind of filial piety, never making excuses to visit parents regularly, can be filial to parents' bedside, carry excrement and urine, wipe the body and wash feet, and provide for the elderly and die.