1. "Polygonum" - Anonymous in the Pre-Qin Dynasty

The one who uses Polygonum is Curcuma, and the bandit is Curcuma. I feel sorry for my parents, who worked so hard to give birth to me.

The one who uses Polygonum Polygonum is Curcuma, and the one who steals Curcuma is Yiwei. I'm sorry for my parents, who made me exhausted.

Translation: Look at the height of the wormwood, but it is not wormwood but loose wormwood. Pity my father and mother, they worked so hard to raise me! Look at the wormwood and wormwood clinging to each other, but they are not wormwood but wei. I have pity on my father and mother, they have worked so hard to raise me!

2. "Sending Mother Back to Hometown" - Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty

If there is nothing in return for maternal love, what more can we ask for in life.

Translation: If my mother cannot repay her kindness in raising me, what else in life is worth pursuing?

3. "The Wandering Son's Song" - Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty

Whoever speaks from the heart will receive three rays of spring.

Translation: Who said that a little filial piety like a grass can repay a mother's love like the spring sunshine?

4. "Dan Ge Xing" - Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty

People know that men and women are good at birth, but they don't know that men and women make people grow old.

Translation: Others say it is good to have children, but they don’t know that having children will make you grow old early. Parents age prematurely for the sake of their children. As children, what reason do we have not to repay them?

5. "The Poetry of Yan Revealed to Liu Sou" - Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty

Si'er was a young boy, flying high and carrying his mother on his back.

My parents missed you then, but you should know today

Translation: When you were a little swallow flying high away from your mother, you should understand now how your parents missed you. . The poem uses the habit of swallows to abandon their parents after they learn to fly, and describes the sorrow of swallows' parents, warning everyone not to be like swallows and completely forget the nurturing grace of their parents.