It means that there is someone standing in front of the door at dusk waiting for you to return, and someone will ask you if the porridge is warm. It is also known as "No one stands with me at dusk, and no one asks me if my porridge is warm".

Adapted from the original text of the Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu of the Qing Dynasty: "When I am free, I stand with you at dusk, and when I smile in front of the stove, I ask you whether the porridge is warm", and "No one stands with me at dusk, and no one asks me whether the porridge is warm. It describes a very lonely person with no companion and no emotional support, and expresses the lassitude of being alone.

This line is used to describe the empty-nested youth in a state of living alone, expressing the feeling of loneliness and loneliness of a person without anyone's care.

The poem's text is fresh and honest, with no traces of decoration, and the plot is about the love between husband and wife, which will never come back; it begins with joy and ends with sorrow, and it is sad and touching to see people drifting away from their homeland.

Expanded:

Originally known as Six Records of a Floating Life, it is an autobiographical essay written by Shen Fu (沈复), a native of Changzhou in the Qing Dynasty, with the character Sanbai (三白), and the name Meiyi (梅逸), in the thirteenth year of the Jiaqing reign (1808). The remnants of Six Records of a Floating Life, only four volumes of which were found in a cold stall in Suzhou, were handed over to Wang Tao, who was then presiding over the declaration of the Wenzun Pavilion in Shanghai, and published on movable type boards in 1877 by Wang Tao, the wife and brother of Wang Tao of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Tao's wife and brother, Yang Cuichuan, found the remnants of the Six Records of a Floating Life in a cold stall in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, which consisted of only four volumes, and handed them over to Wang Tao, who was then presiding over the declaration of the Wenzongge in Shanghai, to be published on movable type boards in 1877.

The word "floating life" is derived from Li Bai's poem "Preface to the Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Li Garden", which reads: "Heaven and earth are the reverse of everything; time and light are the passers-by of a hundred generations. And the floating life is like a dream, for the joy of geometry?"

"When I am free, I stand with you at dusk, and ask with a smile in front of the stove if the porridge is warm." From "Six Records of a Floating Life" by Shen Fu of the Qing Dynasty . And "No one to stand with me at dusk, no one to ask me porridge can be warm" is the reading of "Six Records of a Floating Life", which was later changed to lyrics by the original author.