Ode to a Teacher Lyrics by Qiao Yu

Ode to a Teacher

Teacher, there is no magnificent stage, no flowers

Three feet of podium and a blackboard is your world to show off your life

Faced with dozens of pairs of perplexed and thirsty eyes

Teacher, you unhesitatingly use your own voice like a song

Sow the sunshine of love, the rain of wisdom

Teacher, the snowflakes are falling down

Like your newborn gray hairs on your temples

Like your hands caressing the frozen ground

Teacher. The falling snowflakes

Like the white hairs on your temples

Like your hands touching the frozen ground

Like the flowers of your ideals

The snow is falling, and it will nurture a season of abundance

Will nourish the new shoots that are beginning to blossom

Mr. Teacher, you have enlightened me with a true understanding of nature's bounty

They have made me read every green petal and every green leaf of every green leaf, and I have understood them all. I have read every leaf, every cloud, every wave

Teacher, you have created a warm community

In our community

every minute is filled with joy, song and sunshine

Teacher, the bright light in your room all night long

shines like a star in the middle of the night

Whenever I walk by your window

the bright light in your room

is as bright as a star in the middle of the night.

The bright light shines in my heart

Dear Teacher: Without the plowing of spring

Where would the scent of the lotus be

May you always be the messenger of spring

Shedding warm sunshine on the earth

Without the plowing of spring, I would not be able to see you.