The "pedestrian" in "Pedestrians on the Road Want to Die" refers to people traveling outside. "Pedestrians" do not mean "tourists", not those who go out for spring outings. It comes from "Qingming" by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty. In poetry, "soul" mostly refers to spiritual and emotional matters.
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.
Translation:
The 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.
Ask the locals where to buy a drink to drown your sorrows? The shepherd boy smiled without answering and pointed to the village deep in the apricot blossoms.
The poet used the word "one after another" to describe the "fire and rain" that day, which is really good. "One after another", if it describes snow, it should be heavy snow. But when used to write about rain, it is just the opposite. The kind that makes people feel "turbulent" is not heavy rain, but drizzle. This kind of drizzle is exactly the characteristic of spring rain. The drizzle is falling one after another, the kind of rain that feels like "light rain in the sky is as moist as a crisp". It is different from the torrential rain in summer, and it is definitely not the same as the pattering autumn rain. This "rainfall" captures the spirit of "throwing fire and rain" during the Qingming Festival, and conveys the melancholy and beautiful realm of "being cold and bullying the flowers, trapping the smoke in the willows".