The significance of Qingming ancient poetry

Qingming du mu

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

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Sentence annotation

⑴ Qingming: one of the 24 solar terms, around April 5 in the solar calendar. On the day of the old custom, there were activities such as sweeping graves, hiking and inserting willows. In the palace, this day is the swing festival. Put swings in the Palace of Kunning and the harem, and make swings for concubines.

(2) more descriptions.

⑶ desire to break the soul: describe extreme sadness, as if the soul were to be separated from the body. Broken soul: looks sad and unhappy. The meaning of these two sentences is that there are many rains in the Qingming period, and it is fluttering; In this weather and this festival, pedestrians on the road are depressed and upset.

(4) Excuse me: Excuse me.

5] Xinghua Village: a village deep in apricot flowers. Today is outside Xiushan Gate in Guichi, Anhui Province. Influenced by this poem, later generations often take "Xinghua Village" as the name of the hotel.

Vernacular translation

On this day, it was raining in Mao Mao, Tomb-Sweeping Day, and people traveling on the road were as confused and desolate as those who lost their souls. Asked the shepherd boy where there was a restaurant, he pointed to Xinghua Village in the distance.

Qingming is a poem by Du Mu, a writer in Tang Dynasty. This poem, written in the drizzle of a clear spring, has been widely read because of its light color and cold artistic conception. The first sentence explains the scene, environment and atmosphere; The second sentence describes the characters, expressing their grief, anger and confusion. The third sentence puts forward how to get rid of this mentality; The fourth sentence, writing answers with actions, is the highlight of the whole article. The whole poem adopts the technique of rising from low to high, with the climax at the end, which is memorable and intriguing.