What is the theme of Du Mu's poem Qingming?

Mourning day, drizzle like tears; Pedestrians on the road want to die.

Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

Tomb-Sweeping Day in the south of the Yangtze River always gives people the impression of rainy weather, where cold and warm air often meet, thus forming rainy weather.

In misty and rainy Shan Ye, there are always grave-sweepers coming and going in the drizzle, lonely and lingering, or in groups of three or five, supporting the elderly and taking care of the young, or one or two lonely shadows, limping alone to pay homage to the graves of deceased relatives. The distant mountains are hidden in the clouds, the trees are caged in front of solitary smoke, the bridges are flowing, the distant mountains are washed by the rain, and the wind blows the willows. What a sad and lonely journey, what a sad and wandering picture.

The poet only used three words: "I want to break my soul", and then the grave sweeper missed his loved ones and mourned the dead.

"Soul-breaking" originally described a person's grief-stricken mental state. The dead are gone, but the living are heartbroken. The sadness of crying for land can't last long, but the memory of relatives is always hard to give up. The word "desire" makes grave sweepers feel the sadness of missing the dead at this moment.

Pay homage to the ancestors, sprinkle a glass of wine in front of the monument, and mourn. Looking around, you can only see a misty rain, but you can't see people and smoke. Where can I get a pot of wine? Suddenly I saw a shepherd boy riding on the back of a green cow, playing piccolo and walking leisurely. Going forward to ask, the shepherd boy pointed to the Xinghua Village Restaurant in the distance. At this point, the whole poem came to an abrupt end and solidified into a still picture, leaving people with infinite reverie. ...

Du Mu's seven-character quatrains became the eternal swan song of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping. Just 28 words, full of scenery and affection, sang intoxicating rain, flowers and wine in the Qingming period in the south of the Yangtze River, which set off people's grief over their deceased relatives. It is sincere and just right, like a faint ink painting, with profound artistic conception and unbearable loneliness. Since ancient times, there have been many poems praising Qingming, but today, no one can match them.

At the same time, the poem also sings a famous apricot blossom village, and where is the "apricot blossom village" mentioned in the poem? People have different opinions now, and they can't agree.

Some people say that it is Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, where wine is also produced, and it is a famous wine. According to records, there is an ancient well, commonly known as a deep well, at the north 15 km of Fenyang County, Shanxi Province. There is a pavilion on the ancient well called Shen Mingting. According to ancient inscriptions, well water is "sweet, sweet and clear" with strong fragrance, which is the source of Fenjiu and Zhuyeqing liquor. Brewing in Xinghua Village began in the Northern Wei Dynasty and has a history of 1500 years. Scholars of all ages inscribed poems and carved tablets, praising wine. The legendary "Drunken Xianju" hotel is the most enjoyable. It is said that Xian Weng was an old man, dressed in rags, drank wine three times without paying a penny, expertly spit out the fragrance, turned clear water into wine, and turned an ancient well into a divine well.

There is also an apricot blossom village in the south of the Yangtze River. According to legend, Du Mu was a famous local wine when he was the secretariat of Chizhou (now Guichi County, Anhui Province). Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we go to the Yellow Restaurant in Xinghua Village in the west of the city to drink. Judging from this record, Xinghua Village in the south of the Yangtze River is more likely. There is also a sentence in the poem "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival". Why is the weather in Tomb-Sweeping Day always "rainy"? Understanding this is the key to further confirm where Xinghua Village is.

There are three reasons:

One is that the winter in the south of the Yangtze River goes to spring, and the cold air gradually weakens, and the warm and humid air on the ocean begins to move northward actively. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, cold and warm air often meet in the south of the Yangtze River, resulting in rainy weather.

The second is the spring in Jiangnan, with a lot of low pressure. The clouds in the low pressure move fast, the wind is strong and the rain is urgent. Whenever the low pressure passes, there will be rainy weather.

Thirdly, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, there were a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere of the south of the Yangtze River, which easily condensed into Mao Mao rain at night. For these reasons, there are many rains during the Qingming Festival.

No matter from the poet's experience or the artistic conception of the whole poem, the "Xinghua Village" in the poem undoubtedly refers to Guichi, Anhui Province in the south of the Yangtze River.

Finally, let's sing Du Mu's famous poem Qingming once again: