1. Quiet Night Thoughts? Tang Dynasty: Li Bai

The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.

Look up at the bright moon and lower your head to think about your hometown.

Translation:

The bright moonlight shines on the window paper in front of the bed, as if there is a layer of frost on the ground.

I couldn't help but raise my head and look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window. I couldn't help but lower my head and think about my hometown far away.

2. Remembering Shandong brothers on September 9th? Author: Wang Wei

We are strangers in a foreign land, and we miss our relatives even more during the festive season.

I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place, and there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.

Translation:

I am living alone in a foreign country and have been a guest in a foreign land for a long time. Every festive occasion makes me miss my family members more and more.

Reminiscing about the Double Ninth Festival today, my brothers are climbing high again. They wear dogwood and find that I am missing.

3. Return to Hometown Occult Book (1)? Tang Dynasty: He Zhizhang

When a young boy left home and his elder brother returned home, his local pronunciation did not change and his hair on his temples faded away.

Children don’t recognize each other when they see each other, and they laugh and ask where the guest is from.

Translation:

I left my hometown when I was young and came back only in my old age. Although my local accent has not changed, the hair on my temples has become thinner.

When the children saw me, none of them recognized me. They smiled and asked: Where did this guest come from?

4. Returning Hometown Puppet Book (2)? Tang Dynasty: He Zhizhang

I have been away from my hometown for many years, and recently I have been busy with people.

Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze does not change the old waves.

Translation:

I have been away from my hometown for a long time, and only after I returned home did I realize that the changes in personnel in my hometown were really great.

Only the clear water of Jinghu Lake in front of the door, rippled by the spring breeze, is exactly the same as it was more than fifty years ago.

5. Do people miss home every day? Sui Dynasty: Xue Daoheng

It has only been seven days since spring, and it has been two years since I left home.

When a man returns home after the wild geese, his thoughts are in front of the flowers.

Translation:

It has been seven days since spring, and it has been two years since I left home.

The day to go home will fall behind the flocks of geese flying north in spring, but the idea of ????going home comes before the spring flowers bloom.