Clean your room, sleep earlier, come home for dinner more often.

We get so accustomed - maybe even irked - by these recurrent phrases that we fade it to the background of our everyday lives and allow other aspects of it to take precedence over.

This video, however, is a timely reminder for us to appreciate our parents a little more and not take them for granted.

Zhang Yulian, 63, lives in a village.

Her daughter and her granddaughter live in a city a good distance away.

Upon hearing that her daughter has fallen sick, she leaves her village for the first time in her life, crossing two hills, a river, trekking for another 28km through the mountainside, travels through four provinces and takes three different buses - just to cook a meal for her.

The illiterate woman does not know her daughter's address, only her name.

It takes her 3 distressing days before she manages to find her daughter's house, with help from the police.

But her family - especially her granddaughter - is not exactly overjoyed at this reunion.

Zhang Yulian is aged, clumsy. Her daughter tries to help with the cooking, but she insists on doing it on her own.

Her granddaughter does not like her dishes. She finds the rice too hard, the food too salty.

When her daughter invites her to extend stay, Zhang Yulian firmly declines, returning to her village only after one day.

When Zhang Yulian's daughter visits her a mere 2 weeks later, the daughter takes in her squalid surroundings and discovers that Zhang's eyesight has deteriorated so severely that she has problems with her day-to-day life.

Recalling her mother's clumsiness, the true extent of her mother's condition hit her, as does the significance of her mother's home-cooked food.

Even if the video does bank on certain dramatics to tug on the heartstrings, it still presents a touching and much-needed lesson on the incalculable value of  parental love.

For all of the feels, the watch the video in full here:

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