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During the Qingming Festival, drizzle flies; Travelers on the journey are sad because they can't go home to visit their graves.
He asked people where there was an inn where they could drink. Hiding from the rain, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village in the distance.
Du Mu
Du Mu (AD 803-852), born in Fanchuan, Mu Zhi, Han nationality, Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi, Shaanxi), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Du Mu is called "Xiao Du" to distinguish him from Du Fu. Also known as "Little Du Li" with Li Shangyin. Because he lived in South Fan Chuan Villa in Chang 'an in his later years, he was later called "Du Fanchuan" and wrote "Collected Works of Fan Chuan".
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According to Jiangnan Tongzhi, when Du Mu was appointed as the secretariat of Chizhou, he went to Xinghua Village near Duhu Lake and Southeast Lake for drinking. Pedestrians, restaurants, shepherd boys and Xinghua Village in the poem, together with winding mountain roads and spring rain, constitute an interesting "Qingming misty rain map". This poem describes the typical weather characteristics in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and expresses the feelings of people who have left their homes to drown their sorrows in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where the spring rains are continuous, including bitterness and hope.
During the Qingming period, the weather in the south of the Yangtze River changed greatly, sometimes it was sunny in spring, sometimes it was foggy and rainy. The first sentence closely follows the theme of the poem and points out the weather characteristics at this time. Then he used the word "broken soul" to vividly write the sadness of passers-by. Qingming has the custom of going hiking to worship ancestors and sweeping graves together. This is supposed to be a family gathering. However, the "pedestrian" in the poem is a person in a foreign land, traveling alone, feeling lonely and desolate, but catching up with this drizzle adds a sense of melancholy and trouble.