The meaning of the poem is that it is raining heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls, so the weather and the festival make the pedestrians on the road depressed and their souls are scattered.

There are a lot of them.

Broken Soul: a disheartened and bored look. Wanting to break the soul: describes extremely deep sadness, as if the soul is going to be separated from the body.

This poem is from the Tang Dynasty writer Du Mu's poem Qingming, which reads 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 is pointing to the apricot blossom village.

Vernacular Translation

The rain fell during the Ching Ming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and the pedestrians on the road all wanted to break their souls.

When I asked the local people where they could buy wine to drown their sorrows, the shepherd boy laughed but did not answer. The pastor smiled but did not answer and pointed to the apricot blossom mountain village.

Expanded:

The poem "Qingming" is about what you see in the spring rain of Qingming, with light colors and a bleak state of mind, and has been widely recited.

The first line explains the scene, the environment and the atmosphere; the second line writes about the characters and shows their bleak and confused state of mind; the third line suggests ways to get rid of this state of mind; the fourth line writes about the answer with action, which is the highlight of the whole piece.

The whole poem utilizes the technique of rising gradually from low to high, with the climax being placed at the end, which makes the aftertaste far away and intriguing.

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