Spring

These two lines are from Du Mu's "Qingming", which reads: "Rain pours down at the time of the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. I ask where the tavern is located. The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

Translated into vernacular, the poem reads: "During the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, the rain falls one after another, and the pedestrians on the road all want to break their souls. I asked the local people where to buy wine to drown their sorrows. The pastor smiled but did not answer and pointed to the apricot blossom mountain village. It describes the scene of Qingming Festival, which is at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, so it is written in spring.

Introducing Du Mu, Du Mu was an outstanding poet and essayist of the Tang Dynasty, the grandson of Chancellor Du You and the son of Du Congyu. In the second year of Emperor Wenzong's reign, at the age of 26, he was awarded the title of 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 Wenshu" (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".