Qingming Festival

Du Mu

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

Introduction

This is one of the most famous poems about Qingming Festival. It describes the spring color of Qingming and expresses the poet's feelings of the festival in a simple and clear language. With distinctive image, sincere feelings, easy to read and remember, it has been loved and recited by people for thousands of years.

Original Poem

The rain falls one after another at Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls1.

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

Notes

①Pedestrian: a person who lives far away from home. The first is to break the soul: want, will be; broken soul, describing the extreme grief, disturbed. The first is the village of the apricot blossoms, which is deep in the apricot blossoms.

Translation of the poem

The sky is drizzling at Qingming Festival,

The pedestrians on the road are all sad and broken-hearted.

May I ask you where is the restaurant?

The shepherd boy pointed to the mountain village full of apricot blossoms.

Appreciation

This is a festival poem, which is the most famous poem about Qingming Festival in ancient times.

In the first two lines of the poem, the poet writes about the natural scene of drizzling rain at the time of Ching Ming Festival, and writes about the misery of the traveler who is alone on the road in the drizzling spring rain. In the next line, "I want to break my soul", the poet writes about the sadness of the traveler, both the coldness of the season and the sadness of being far away from home. Therefore, the first two lines are not only about the scenery, but also about the feelings of chaotic thoughts in the midst of the "rain". After explaining the scene, it is natural to write about the thoughts of the pedestrians in the rain, and they want to ask where there is a hotel to relieve the cold and sorrow with wine. However, the third line does not give the address, but raises the question by asking. The fourth line pushes the poem to the whole ***, but still did not write a specific address, only through the "distant finger", pointing out the destination of the action tends to. The "distant pointing" is not close at hand, but it gives the pedestrian a kind of hope. This is the first time that I've ever seen a person with a broken heart, and I've never seen a person with a broken soul, and I've never seen a person with a broken heart, and I've never seen anything like it.

Although the end of the poem is suspended, the imagination left to the reader is expanding indefinitely, the drizzle reminds us of tears of sadness, and the apricot blossom village covered by the drizzle gives us a sense of hazy warmth and beauty, which makes us savor the memory of the past.