From: Elegy of Han Yuefu folk song, the author is unknown.
Original text:
Sad songs can be used as tears, and distant looks can be used as angelica.
Miss my hometown and feel depressed.
Nobody wants to go home, and there is no boat to cross the river.
The brain can't talk, and the wheels in the intestines turn.
A sad song replaced the cry of homesickness and could not go home. Climbing high and looking far, you are back to your hometown. Broad vegetation and heavy hills cover the eyes, and the sadness of homesickness is beyond words. There are no relatives at home, so there is no home to go back to. Even if you have a home, you can't go back, because the future is bumpy, there is no way to go and no boat to cross.
I really want to tell people about my homesickness and painful experience, but there are many secrets that I can't tell, so I have to keep them in my heart, and my heart is extremely painful, just like the wheels in my intestines are turning and there are bursts of colic.
Extended data:
This ancient poem is included in Yuefu Poems Zaqu, which is about the sadness of a wanderer who is homesick and can't go back. At the beginning of the poem, "Elegy can make you cry", many contents have been cut out. It is not difficult to understand that I have cried many times before elegy, because I was so sad that I finally used elegy to replace crying.
Then write the reason why he is so sad: "Looking far away, you can go back to China". Turned out to be a vagrant. He is far away from home and can't go home, so he has to look forward to his hometown instead. It's not really "you can go back to China from a long distance", just talking about solving your worries. There's nothing you can do. These two sentences have made a typical artistic summary of many people's life experiences, which can attract readers' attention most, so they have become famous sentences through the ages.