Wandering Ziyin (Bilingual in Chinese and English)
Song of a Wanderer
Author| Meng Jiao
English to | Zhou Kenan
Mother's hand thread,
My kind mother has a needle and thread in her hand
Wanderer shirt.
Making new clothes for her son who is to travel far away
Close seams,
She is busy sewing closely before my leaving
Fear of delay.
Worried that I cannot come back for a long time
Whoever speaks a word,
Who says that the heart of an inch-long plant
Repay the three Chunhui.
Can requite the radiance of full spring
exegesis
1) Inch grass: The metaphor is very small.
2) Three Chunhui: Mother's love is like spring and warm sunshine. Three springs, namely Mengchun, Mid-Spring, and Jichun, refer to the whole spring; Hui, sunshine.
【Vernacular Translation】
The kind mother held the needle and thread in her hand
Make new clothes for children who are about to travel
Before leaving, she was busy sewing her clothes tightly
It is worried that the child will never return
Who can say that there is a tiny filial piety like Xiaocao
But you can repay the kindness of a loving mother like a spring
