树高千丈,叶落归根 [ shù gāo qiān zhàng,yè luò guī gēn ]

基本释义

树长得再高,落叶还是要回到树根。比喻离开故土时间再长,最后还是要回归故土。

英文翻译

fig. everything has its ancestral home; fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb); in old age, an expatriate returns home