The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Qingming".

1. The original poem:

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 apricot blossom village.

2Translation:

The rain fell during the Qingming Festival in Jiangnan, and the pedestrians on the road all wanted to break their souls.

Ask the local people where they can buy wine to drown their sorrows. The shepherd boy smiled and pointed to a village deep in the apricot blossoms.

Expanded Information

Background of Composition

This poem was first published in the early Southern Song Dynasty in "The Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers," which indicates Tang poetry, and was later published in the "Selection of a Thousand Poems of Tang and Song Dynasty Sages by Sections and Classes," the Ming Dynasty in the form of "Thousand Poems" by Xie Fangde, and the Qing Dynasty's "Tang Poems Selected by the Emperor," in the form of "The Imperial Selection of Tang Poems," in the order of "The Sections of Tang Poems" by Emperor Kang Xi.

Jiangnan Tongzhi: Du Mu, when he was the assassin of Chizhou, had been to the Apricot Blossom Village to drink, and the Apricot Blossom Village in the poem refers to this. Nearby are Du Lake, Southeast Lake and other scenic spots.

This little poem, a difficult word is not, an allusion is not used, the whole is a very common language, written with ease, no management of the traces of artifice. The syllables are very harmonious and complete, and the scene is very fresh and vivid, but also beautiful and interesting. The poem is also very natural by the method of writing, is the order of writing.