Source-backed poem text
原文、拼音与逐行英译
- 作者
- 孟郊 · Meng Jiao
- 朝代
- 唐
- 体裁
- 五言古诗five-character old-style poem
- 01
慈母手中线
Cí mǔ shǒu zhōng xiàn
Thread rests in the hands of a loving mother.
- 02
游子身上衣
Yóu zǐ shēn shàng yī
It becomes the clothing worn by her traveling child.
- 03
临行密密缝
Lín xíng mì mì féng
Before the departure, she sews stitch after close stitch.
- 04
意恐迟迟归
Yì kǒng chí chí guī
Her worry is that the traveler may be slow to return.
- 05
谁言寸草心
Shuí yán cùn cǎo xīn
Who could say that the heart of a small blade of grass
- 06
报得三春晖
Bào dé sān chūn huī
can repay the warm sunlight of the whole spring?
Reading focus
先沿着“线—衣—缝—归”读清临行前的动作与担心，再看末两句怎样用寸草和春晖把亲情改写成难以报答的比喻。
First trace thread, clothing, sewing, and return as a sequence of care and worry; then see how grass and spring sunlight turn that relationship into a metaphor of unrepayable care.
Edition note
正文采用来源页所列“谁言寸草心”通行本；来源页同时记录第五句另作“难将寸草心”。
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用于核对作者、六句正文、五言结构及第五句异文。
01
进入场景
Enter the scene
临行前，母亲把手中的线缝进游子身上的衣服；反复的动作与迟归的担心，最后转成寸草面对春晖的比喻。
Before departure, a mother sews thread into the traveler's clothing. Repeated stitches and worry about a late return become the closing grass-and-sunlight metaphor.
02
语言重点
Language focus
“密密”和“迟迟”用叠词加强动作与时间感；“寸草心、三春晖”必须先按比喻读，不能当成场景里突然出现的实物。
The reduplications mìmi and chíchí intensify action and delay; the grass heart and spring sunlight must be read as metaphor rather than new literal objects in the room.
03
读后练习
After-reading practice
把六句分成物件、动作、担心、比喻四层，逐层摘录原诗证据，再说明末两句怎样回应前四句。
Sort the six lines into object, action, worry, and metaphor, cite the words for each layer, and explain how the closing couplet answers the first four lines.