Literati and men of letters in the past dynasties will splash ink whenever they go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, expressing their feelings around the theme of Tomb-Sweeping Day, including remembering their old friends, depicting the beautiful scenery of Qingming, and expressing their feelings through things. Among them, Qingming, a seven-character quatrain written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is the most widely spread, almost a household name, and is well known to women and children.
Because this poem has been sung for a long time, there are many hearsay stories about this poem, because everyone likes this poem very much, and it has even been rewritten into many versions with many interesting legends. Modern people study this poem more deeply. They even doubted the real author of this poem through the author Du Mu's life experience.
The reason why this poem is widely circulated is that the language is easy to understand, there are no allusions, no obscure images and no traces of carving. The ancients changed it into other poems. This is a seven-character quatrain, and some people try to subtract a few words and turn it into a six-,five-or even three-character quatrain. If you delete a complete poem, it is easy to damage its meaning because of its words. This five-character poem should be harmless: it rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians want to die. where is the restaurant？ It refers to Xinghua Village.
Some people skillfully cut down the number of words, which can actually become an ancient word. This word has been punctuated without deleting a word: it rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians are on the road, trying to break their souls. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? There is a shepherd boy, pointing to Xinghua Village. You can also form new ancient characters by deleting the number of words, which are all word games of the ancients.
At the same time, some busybodies even adapted this poem into a drama, a one-act play, a movie script and so on. There is even a scholar who used this poem to ask for meat and wine. It is said that a scholar was a tutor in a rich family, but he was very unhappy because he could not eat food. The students asked him for a composition topic. Without thinking, he wrote "Where can I find a restaurant?" .
This poem has been read by many people because of its beautiful poems and excellent artistic conception. At the same time, some people adapted this poem into a new poem, changed it into a short prose play, and even quoted it into daily life. Some people even verified the author of this poem and the geographical dispute of Xinghua Village in this poem, all of which originated from people's love for this poem.