What does homesickness mean?

Homesickness is a Chinese word, and its pinyin is xiāng chóu, which is interpreted as a sad feeling of deeply missing hometown and an emotional state of attachment to hometown. Attachment to the homeland is the same and eternal emotion of human beings. Wanderers, drifters, vagrants and immigrants who are far away from home will miss their hometown.

Homesickness is no longer a medical disease, but it still has very real physiological symptoms in essence. These symptoms may be, but are not limited to: chest tightness, tight throat, chest pain, and will cause despair.

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Related Extension of Homesickness: Yu Guangzhong's Modern Poetry Homesickness

This is a modern poem written by modern poet Yu Guangzhong in 1972. Through the time series of "when I was a child", "when I grew up", "later" and "now", the poem concretizes the abstract homesickness with stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, summarizes the poet's long life course and endless homesickness for the motherland, and reveals the poet's profound sense of history. The whole poem has simple language and deep feelings.

Nostalgia was selected as a Chinese textbook for middle schools by China Publishing House and People's Education Publishing House.

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