lǎo rén / cháng / shuō / rén / lǎo / le / jiù / yào / luò yè guī gēn / bù néng / kè sǐ / tā xiāng

老人常说，人老了就要落叶归根，不能客死他乡。

The old man often said that when one is old, one should return to one's roots and not die in a foreign land.