Qingming Festival
Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
Ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village.
Translation:
The drizzle falls one after another during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and all the travelers on the road are in despair.
May I ask the locals where to buy wine to drown their sorrows? The shepherd boy smiled and pointed to Xinghua Mountain Village in the distance.
"Qingming" is a poem written by Du Mu, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes what was seen in the spring rain during the Qingming Dynasty. It has light colors and a desolate mood. It has always been widely recited. The first sentence explains the situation, environment, and atmosphere; the second sentence describes the character, showing the character's confused and confused state of mind; the third sentence proposes a way to get rid of this state of mind; the fourth sentence contains answers and actions, which is the whole The highlight of this article.
Extended information:
Creative background
This poem was first seen in the "Splendid Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers" in the early Southern Song Dynasty. It was noted as a Tang poem, and later appeared in "Dimension Compilation" It is similar to "Selected Poems of Thousand Families of Xianjia in the Tang and Song Dynasties", "Poetry of Thousands of Families" by Xie Fangde of Ming Dynasty, and "Yu Selection of Tang Poems" by Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty.
This little poem contains not a single difficult word, nor a single allusion. The entire poem is written in very popular language, and is written with great ease, without any trace of artificiality. The syllables are very harmonious and perfect, the scene is very fresh and vivid, and the realm is beautiful and interesting. It is also natural for poems to be written in a sequential manner.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Du Mu