This poem describes the weather characteristics during the Qingming Festival and expresses the emotions and hopes of a person traveling alone

Qingming

Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty

It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road are dying.

May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village.

Notes: 1. Du Mu (803-852), Du Muzhi, a native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), was a writer of the Tang Dynasty. Du Mu wrote lyrical poems about scenery, with clear and vivid words, and concise and hearty artistic conception. His poems had higher achievements in the late Tang Dynasty. He is as famous as the poet Li Shangyin in the late Tang Dynasty. Known as "Little Li Du".

2. Qingming: one of the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, approximately around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar.

3. Desire to die: Refers to feeling melancholy and sorrowful, as if one has lost one's soul.

4. Yaozhi: pointing to the distance.

5. Xinghua Village: a village deep in the apricot blossoms.

Appreciation: During the Qingming Festival, there is a traditional custom of going outing with relatives and friends, paying homage to ancestors, and sweeping the tombs of ancestors. However, the "walker" in the poem is alone on the journey to a foreign country. The feeling in his heart is very lonely and desolate, coupled with the continuous spring rain. Continuously, it added to the inexplicable annoyance and melancholy of "Pedestrian", and his mood was so low that it seemed unsustainable. However, "Pedestrian" was unwilling to wallow in loneliness and sorrow, and quickly asked where there was a place to drink, so that he could surround himself with people and wine. In the heat of the spring. So, the shepherd boy in the spring rain pointed out a forest of apricot blossoms in the distance. The conclusion of the poem made people feel distant and the poetry seemed very fresh and bright.