What does Du Mu's poem Qingming mean?

The meaning of Du Mu's poem Qingming: In Tomb-Sweeping Day, there is a tradition of visiting relatives and friends to visit their ancestors and visit their graves. The "pedestrian" in the poem is a person's journey in a foreign land, and his feelings are very lonely and desolate. Coupled with the continuous spring rain, "pedestrians" are inexplicably agitated and depressed, and their emotions seem unsustainable. However, "pedestrians" are unwilling to indulge in loneliness and sadness, and quickly ask where there is a place to drink, so as to be in the heat flow of people and wine. Then, the shepherd boy in the spring rain pointed to a piece of apricot forest in the distance. The end of the poem makes people feel far away, poetic and fresh and lively.

Full text:

Qingming period:? Don? Author:? Du Mu

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

Source: Complete Works of Tang Poetry. This poem was first recorded in the Splendid Flower Valley in the early years of Southern Song Dynasty, and later appeared in Selected Poems of Thousand Scholars in Tang and Song Dynasties, Poems of Thousand Scholars by Xie Fangde in Ming Dynasty and Poems of Imperial Selection in Tang Dynasty by Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. "Jiangnan Tongzhi" contains: Du Mu once went to Xinghua Village to drink when he was the secretariat of Chizhou, which is what the poem refers to. There are attractions such as Duhu Lake and Southeast Lake nearby.

reference data

Du Mu. Tomb-Sweeping Day. Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1983.