The rain pours down at the time of Qingming is from the ancient poem "Qingming". It is the work of Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

The full poem is as follows:

The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy pointed to the village of apricot blossoms.

Vernacular translation: On the day of Ching Ming Festival, the rain was pouring down, and the people traveling on the road seemed as confused and desolate as if they had broken their souls. When I asked the shepherd boy where there was a house of wine, he pointed to the Apricot Blossom Village in the distance.

Author's Biography:

Du Mu (803 A.D.-circa 852 A.D.), courtesy name Mu Zhi (牧之), and nickname Fanchuan Jushi (樊川居士), was a Han Chinese national, a native of Wannian, Jingzhao (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi). Du Mu was an outstanding poet and prose writer of the Tang Dynasty, and was the grandson of Chancellor Du You and the son of Du Congyu. At the age of 26, Du Mu was awarded a bachelor's degree in the second year of Emperor Wenzong's Dahuo reign and was authorized to be a scholar in the Hongwenkan school. Later, he went to Jiangxi Observation Envoy's Office, transferred to Huainan Festival Envoy's Office, and then entered the Observation Envoy's Office, and was appointed as a compiler of the State Historical Hall, an official of the Ministry of Catering, the Ministry of Bibi, and the Ministry of Sihun, as well as an assassin of Huangzhou, Chizhou, and Mutsuzhou.

Because in his later years, Du Mu lived in Fanchuan Villa in Chang'an, he was called "Du Fanchuan", and he wrote a collection of poems called "Fanchuan Wenzheng" (Collected Writings of Fanchuan). Du Mu's poetry is famous for his seven-character stanzas, which are mainly about history, and his poems are handsome, cutting through the world, and are highly accomplished in the late Tang Dynasty. Du Mu was known as "Little Du", as distinct from Du Fu, "Big Du". With Li Shangyin and called "small Li Du".