1. Du Mu, the author of "Qingming", Tang Dynasty
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. Vernacular 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.
2. Wang Yucheng, the author of "Qingming"? Song Dynasty
Spending Qingming without flowers and wine, the mood is as dull as a wild monk.
Yesterday the neighbor was begging for a new fire, and Xiao Chuang was given a reading lamp. Vernacular interpretation:
I am spending this Qingming Festival with no flowers to see and no wine to drink. Such a lonely and miserable life is like a monk in a deserted mountain temple. Everything means nothing to me. They all seemed very depressed and lonely.
Yesterday I got some fresh fire from my neighbor. Early in the morning of Qingming Festival, I lit a lamp in front of the window and sat down to read.
3. Huang Tingjian, the author of "Qingming"? Song Dynasty
On the Qingming Festival, peaches and plums smile, and the wild graves only give birth to sorrow.
Thunder shook the sky and earth, dragons and snakes stung, and rain fell on the grass and trees in the countryside.
People beg and sacrifice their arrogant concubines, and scholars burn to death unjust marquises.
The wise and foolish know who they are for thousands of years, and their eyes are full of basil and grass. Vernacular interpretation:
During the Qingming Festival, the continuous spring rain makes the land a patch of luxuriant grass and peaches and plums in full bloom. The desolate parts of the wild fields are cemeteries where the dead are buried. The dead sleep underground, making the living feel sad.
The thunder of spring awakens all things, and the universe brings vitality to the earth. The land was covered with lush grass. When he returned home, he would lie to his wife and concubine and boast that he was eating and drinking at the house of a friend who was a high official, and how the master entertained him so warmly.
Jie Zitui’s ambition was unshakable, and he wanted to hold a tree and burn it to death in Mianshan. Huang Tingjian thought of the dead in the wilderness from the flowers blooming during the Qingming Festival.
Although no matter how wise or foolish we are, we are all the same in the end, but the meaning of life is very different.
4. Su Shi, the author of "Donglan Pear Blossoms"? Song Dynasty
The pear blossoms are pale white and the willows are dark green, and catkins fly all over the city.
Melancholy A tree in the east column of snow makes life look so clear.
Vernacular interpretation:
The pear blossoms are as white as snow, the wicker reveals the rich color of spring, and the fluttering catkins are mixed with pear blossoms like snow, covering the whole city .
My mood is melancholy, just like the pear blossom as white as snow in the East Column, living in the secular world and being pure. I see this complicated secular life so thoroughly and clearly.
5. Bai Juyi, the author of "Qingming Night"? During the Tang Dynasty
On Qingming Night with a good wind and dim moonlight, the blue-green pavilion and the red pavilion were built to assassinate the historian.
Walking alone around the corridor, I rested, listening to string instruments in the distance and looking at flowers in secret. Vernacular interpretation:
On the night of Qingming Festival, when the breeze is blowing and the moon is hazy, the steps made of jasper and the wall made of red bricks are the governor's mansion.
Walking alone in the winding corridor, singing, hearing the sound of strings in the distance, and silently admiring the flowers.