"The shepherd boy pointed to the village of apricot blossoms" comes from "Qingming" by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. It means: the shepherd boy smiled but did not answer and pointed to the mountain village deep in the apricot blossoms.
Why point to Xinghua Village? Here we need to read the above "Ask where the restaurant is", because the author asked where there is a restaurant, and the wine in Xinghua Village is strong and the wine there is the best, so the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.
Full text of "Qingming":
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road feel like dying.
Ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village.
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.
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.
Extended information
The poem "Qingming" uses very popular language and is written with great ease, without any trace of artificiality. The syllables are very harmonious and perfect, the scene is very fresh and vivid, and the realm is beautiful and interesting. It is also natural for poems to be told from chapter to chapter, and they are written sequentially.
The first sentence describes the situation, environment, and atmosphere, which is "qi".
The second sentence is "Cheng", which describes the character and shows the character's confused and confused state of mind.
The third sentence is a "turn", but it also proposes a way to get rid of this state of mind.
And this directly forces the fourth sentence, which becomes the highlight of the whole article - "he". In art, this is a technique of starting from low to high, gradually rising, and putting the climax at the end.
Due to the influence of this poem, later generations often used "Xinghua Village" as the name of the hotel.