Tang Poem: A mother's love is like the spring sun (MENG JIAO, A SON DEPARTING)
Confucian Wisdom
CNF-011
慈母手中線，遊子身上衣。臨行密密縫，意恐遲遲歸。誰言寸草心，報得三春暉。
— MENG JIAO, 遊子吟 (TANG DYNASTY)
"The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted mother / Makes clothes for the body of her wayward boy; / Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends, / Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home. / But how much love has the inch-long grass / For three spring months of the light of the sun?"
Modern Translation & Meaning
"We can never fully repay a mother's love, but we can say thank you. Thank her today for one thing she made or did for you."
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