The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao's "Wandering Zi Yin" vividly expresses Chinese deep family complex.
"Wandering Son"
——Tang Mengjiao
The mother's hand is threaded, and the wanderer's body is clothed.
The seams are tightly sewn, and the fear of delaying the return,
Whoever says anything will be rewarded with three Chunhui.
When we were young, our parents were with us, and we didn't quite understand the meaning of this poem. When I grew up and became a parent, I read this poem again, and I will be moved to tears by the gratitude and guilt in it, but at this time, our parents are old. It can be said that this poem has deeply planted the seeds of filial piety for us. But do you know the story behind this poem? Do you know how old Meng Jiao wrote this poem? Sixteen? Eighteen? Twenty-five? None of them. The correct answer is fifty years old!
Although Meng Jiao is very talented, he is not ambitious in the examination room and has been in the middle of his life. At the age of 46, he was finally admitted to the jinshi. He wrote excitedly, "The spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and I can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day." ”
However, he was soon not happy. In the Tang Dynasty, the entrance examination did not mean that he could become an official immediately, but also waited for vacancies and recommendations from important people. Therefore, after another four years, Mengjiao, who "knew the Destiny of Heaven for Fifty Years", finally waited for a paper appointment and became a lieutenant of Liyang County. He can get a salary to honor his mother, and he can make her life better. Therefore, after MengJiao took office in Liyang, the first thing he did was to return to his hometown and take his mother to his side for care.
The poem "Wandering Zi Yin" was not written by Meng Jiao when he left home for scientific research in his youth, but after he took office in Liyang at the age of 50, after a long separation, Meng Jiao could accompany his mother for a long time.
The first two sentences of the poem should be an unforgettable scene in Meng Jiao's mind: every time he was going to leave home, under the dim light, it was a silhouette of his old mother bowing her head and making a needle and a thread for him to make winter clothes.
This stitch and thread is not only sewn into a piece of clothing, but also the old mother's concern and worry about the long-distance wanderer. As the years passed, my mother grew older, but whenever MengJiao went to take the imperial examination, my mother would still stitch him up and sew clothes for him. The stitches are as dense as possible, as strong as possible, because this dress, he has to wear for a long time.
In the program "Ping "Language" Approaching People - General Secretary Xi Jinping's Dictionary", the classic interpreter, Professor Yang Yu of Central South University, commented that for every mother, in fact, how big an official the son is is not important, how much money the son earns is not important, what is important is companionship. Therefore, how to repay, the form is not the most important, the most important thing is whether the children have a "grass heart".
As the Book of Filial Piety says, the nature of heaven and earth is precious to man, and the deeds of man are greater than filial piety. Meng Jiao's "Wandering Zi Yin" and his mother's story can be said to be the best interpretation of this sentence.
Today, the post-70s, post-80s and post-90s are busy for work and career, but don't forget that our parents who once raised us with hard work. Parents need our filial piety and companionship,
We're going to go home and see more. Don't forget, we will also grow old one day, and we will also need the support and help of others.
Everyone kisses their relatives, grows their lengths, and the world is peaceful.
- Mencius
As long as everyone honors their parents and respects their elders, then the world will naturally be peaceful.
Professor Wang Jie of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China said that although today's society is changing with each passing day and the family structure has undergone great changes, the traditional virtues of respecting the elderly, filial piety and loving relatives have not only not been lost, not only have they not been abandoned, but have taken root in the land of China. It has been passed down from generation to generation on the land of China and flows in the blood of each of our Chinese.
There were twenty-four filial pieties in ancient times, and today, the "National Moral Model Selection", "The Most Beautiful Filial Piety Teenager", "The Most Beautiful Family", etc. are all the inheritance and development of traditional virtues such as respecting the elderly, filial piety and loving relatives.
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