Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming, and China people with a little culture will recite Du Mu's "Tomb-Sweeping Day": "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road are dying. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. "
However, many people have never studied the meaning of the word "pedestrian" If you ask him, he will probably answer "pedestrians on the road" word for word. In fact, this understanding is wrong.
Judging from the context of poetry, why do people who go to Qingming break their souls and drink to drown their sorrows? He can go home to drink and enjoy the beauty of spring. It doesn't make sense. In fact, the ancient "pedestrian" has several meanings: 1 people who travel; Two people who went to war; A general term for messengers. Or people who travel far away can be messengers, recruiters and businessmen. After the Han dynasty, it mainly refers to the latter two, the so-called "no garrison, it must be business travel." Only in this way can we understand Du Mu's poems. The Qingming Spring Festival is full of flowers, which should be a day for family reunion. In spring, we go to visit the grave to worship our ancestors. Now that you're alone, it's raining harder when you leave Wan Li.