In the Song Dynasty, Zhao Lingzhi wrote Backstreet Story, in which there was a poem about how to return to his hometown, and the second poem was: "A teenager leaves home without changing his appearance." Children don't know each other when they meet, but ask where the guests are from. "According to Mr. Kong's textual research, Backstreet Record was written in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. This is the second earliest version of the reunion couplet. There are two key variants compared to collections.

First, "facial hair?" . "? (sai 1) "Not in Guang Yun, but in Jiyun. Mr. Sun Yuwen once pointed out, "? As an example of Lian Mian's single use of Ci, it is said that the beard is covered with a brush. The origin of this word can be traced back to Lu Chongluan in The Book of Songs, who is beautiful and elegant, and the thoughts in Zuo Zhuan abandoned his armor.

According to "The Second Biography of the Tang Dynasty", He was unruly by nature, and naturally disdained to scrutinize rhetoric and publish poetry, so that there was no anthology behind him. Judging from He's existing poems, most of them are bland and have no allusions, and the language style of "local accent is hard to change" fully conforms to He's personality.

However, "?" The word "gills" is not common, and it seems to be generally regarded as "thinking" after entering the Song Dynasty, and its meaning is also archaic. For this poem, it is far from being suitable for Zhang Zhi's talents of "the meaning of drunkenness is not wine, but words" and "no words". The author speculates that the appearance of this variant may be related to the Song people's understanding of "?" The new understanding of Chinese characters is related to the misunderstanding of He Caoshu.

Second, "children." The "servant" in the collection refers to the servant of He's former residence. He Zhangzhi resigned voluntarily, and his colleague's farewell dinner was a sensation. His return to his hometown is a plan for his later years, and it is not too sad. Although "Tong Jia" and "He" are strangers, they have a feeling that things have changed, but they are also humorous.

After changing it to "children", the tone of the whole poem has also changed. The hero is regarded as a passerby by by the children in his hometown, making his hometown close at hand, but he is so strange. The poem puts the protagonist in a dilemma, showing endless sadness and loneliness between the boss and youth, the host and the passer-by, the hometown and the distance, and the wandering and the destination.

In the later generations, in order to strengthen this point, the "facial hair" was changed to "the hair on the temples declined" to highlight the passage of time; Change "but ask" into "smile ask" and strengthen the ruthlessness of life. After the reform, the literariness was strengthened, but it deviated from the creative background of this poem.

Returning to China to write a book:

After this poem, Zhao Lingzhi wrote a small note, "Talking about Yunhe and Huanggong Works". The author speculates that this yellow arch is either the person who quoted the congratulatory message. Su Shi recorded in Dongpo Zhi Lin that Huang Kui ran away from home for many years in the Five Dynasties. After he came back, he wrote one of the wall books, My Hometown Book, and changed the characters slightly to match. In the Ming Dynasty, Qu You recorded that Huang Deguang returned to his hometown after living for many years at the end of Yuan Dynasty, and praised He's second book The Return of the Native as a work of mourning.