Youth Digest magazine shared Yu Shi's father poem about him ❤️
Father's Day is just around the corner. We'd like to share a piece titled "Frost Flowers on the Glass Window" by poet Yu Hang, published in the 13th issue of Youth Digest in 2026.
Yu Hang, a native of Lingyuan, Liaoning, is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association and the Liaoning Writers Association, and has published a prose collection titled "Cultivation". He mentioned that this poem was inspired by a winter night when his son was 5 years old.
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"𝘔𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 5 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥
𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸
𝘏𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱
𝘈𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴
𝘈𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯
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At the end of the poem, he gently adds a line: "Wishes and reality are not entirely the same / Wishing does not equal an ideal". This is probably what a father’s love looks like, both tender and honest: dreaming along with you, while also helping you see reality clearly.
But that child who wished for "mountains, trees, and rivers" on the frost window on that winter night eventually did scale mountains and cross rivers, turning "wishing" into an "理想 ideal*"
"𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵, 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴; 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭."
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*A wordplay since, the son, Yu Shi wrote a song titled 《理想之歌》and the literal translation would be "Song of Ideals" (the official English title of the song is "Bugle Up").
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