Then I was a grown-up,

Nostalgia became a traveling ticket:

“Here am I

And there my bride.”

During the later years

Nostalgia turned to be a graveyard:

“Here am I

And yonder my mother.”

And now at present

Nostalgia looms large to be a channel:

“Here am I

And yonder my Continent!”

（杨钟琰 译）

Nostalgia

Yu Guangzhong

In my childhood,

nostalgia seemed to be a little postage stamp;

I here,

Mother there.

When I grew up,

it was like a little boat ticket;

I here,

my bride there.

Later,

it took the form of a low, square grave;

I outside,

Mother in.

And now,

it is just a sea strait;

I on this side,

the mainland on that.

1961

（Rewi Alley 译）

Homesick

Yu Guangzhong