It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road feel like dying.

From "Qingming" by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty

During the Qingming Festival, it rains heavily, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying.

I asked where the restaurant was, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

Appreciation

The first line of the poem, "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival," points out the time, weather and other natural conditions in which the poet finds himself. Tomb Sweeping Day is one of the major festivals of the Tang Dynasty. On this day, there are various activities, including family reunions, visits to graves, and outings. However, there was no sunshine during the Tomb-Sweeping Festival that Du Mu spent in Chizhou. There was only "a light rain on the sky streets that moistened the streets like crisps" and drizzles.

The second sentence, "Pedestrians on the road want to die", shifts from objective description to subjective description, focusing on the emotional world of the poet. He saw passers-by on the road mourning their deceased relatives, heartbroken, mournful and melancholy.

"May I ask where the restaurant is?" The poet is extremely sad about the scenery, but he has to rush on the road in the rain. The rain wets his clothes and the spring is cold. The poet hopes to drink away his sorrows. So, he asked people for directions.

The concluding sentence "The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance" points out the object of the poet's inquiry in the previous sentence. "The shepherd boy points in the distance" brings the reader into a completely new realm that is completely different from the previous sadness and misery. The little shepherd boy The enthusiastic and sweet voice, the apricot blossoms in the distance, the spring branches, the wine flags fluttering at the head of the village, it really has the rhythm of "the willows are dark, the flowers are bright, and the village is bright". The first two lines of the poem create a sad and sentimental artistic picture, and the last two lines It creates a bright and vivid picture, with the front suppressing and the back rising, contrasting and interlaced, and complementing each other. In tune with the poet's emotional pulse.