In "Motherly Love" Ch'en Ku-ching uses the background of spring planting to capture a warm glimpse of maternal feelings in a farm family. The mother comforting her child and the figures working the land fuse together into a single image of life, growth, and work carried on in the fields.
圍著頭巾、捲起褲管的母親坐在田埂上哄著懷中哭鬧的幼兒，母子相依的形象和人與土地互屬的情感，渾然結為一體，生活、成長與工作在田野間一併進行著。