Qingming was written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is full of homesickness, but also expresses the feelings of missing relatives.
"It rains in the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. "
The poem begins with a picture of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Du Mu uses the adjective "after the rain clears up" to describe the sad atmosphere, which easily reminds readers of Tomb-Sweeping Day's scene of offering sacrifices to his relatives. Next, Du Mu used "pedestrians on the road want to break their souls" to express their feelings of missing their loved ones, which deeply touched the hearts of readers.
Then, Du Mu began to let people around him find a place to spend the night. He asked, "Excuse me, where is the restaurant?" This sentence seems ordinary, but in fact it contains profound meaning. Restaurants are not only for food and shelter, but also for finding a kind and redemptive home. This also shows Du Mu's loneliness and helplessness. When he offered his thoughts for his deceased relatives, he could only seek warmth and comfort with the kindness of strangers.
But he finally got the guidance of the shepherd boy and pointed to Xinghua Village, which solved the accommodation problem for him. The phrase "shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village" also brings the whole poem back to spring and hope. The apricot blossom here may be a place in Du Mu's hometown, or a place where his missing relatives once lived. In any case, it makes people full of hope for the future.
Generally speaking, this poem reveals the poet's yearning for his deceased relatives through his own thoughts and feelings. In this context, it also presents a kind of human touch and warmth, which deeply infects readers and makes them feel the fusion of thoughts and emotions in prose, so Tomb-Sweeping Day has become a festival to express their thoughts to their loved ones.