From: "Qingming" - Du Mu (Tang Dynasty)
Original text:
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.
Notes:
1. Qingming: one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, approximately around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar.
2. Desire to die: refers to the feeling of melancholy and sadness, as if one has lost his soul.
3. Remote pointing: pointing far away.
4. Xinghua Village: A village deep in the apricot flowers.
Interpretation:
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.
Appreciation:
On Qingming Festival, there is a traditional custom of going outing with relatives and friends, paying homage to ancestors and sweeping the tombs of ancestors. However, the "walker" in the poem is alone on a journey to a foreign country, and feels very lonely and desolate in his heart. Coupled with the continuous spring rain, it adds to the inexplicable upset and melancholy of the "walker", and his mood is so low that it seems impossible. support.
However, "Pedestrians" were not willing to wallow in loneliness and sorrow, and quickly asked where there was a place to drink, so that they could be among the heat of people and wine. So, the shepherd boy in the spring rain pointed out an apricot blossom forest in the distance. The conclusion of the poem makes people feel distant and the poetic feeling is very fresh and bright.