Li Bai’s poems describing the Qingming Festival have not been handed down. Tomb-Sweeping Day poems:
1. Spending the Qingming Festival without flowers and wine, the mood is as dull as a wild monk.
Interpretation: Spend the Qingming Festival without flowers or wine, with the same desolate mood as a monk living in a mountain temple.
From: "Qingming" by Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty
2. During the Qingming Festival, peaches and plums smile, but the wild graves only produce sorrow.
Interpretation: During the Qingming Festival, peach blossoms and plum blossoms bloom with smiles. The overgrown graves in the fields were desolate.
From: "Qingming" by Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty
3. On the Qingming night with a good wind and a hazy moon, the blue-painted red pavilion is used by the historian.
Interpretation: On the Qingming night, the breeze blows and the moonlight is hazy. The bluestone steps and red railings are the governor's mansion.
From: "Qingming Night" by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty
4. There are many tombs on the north and south hills, and Qingming festivals are different.
Explanation: There are many cemeteries on the North and South Mountains. During the Qingming Festival, people are busy visiting the graves to pay homage and sweep them.
From: Song Dynasty Gao Zhu's "Wine on Qingming Day"
5. Qingming is important in the emperor, and people are worried about themselves.
Explanation: The annual Qingming Festival in Kyoto is here again, and people naturally feel sad and longing in their hearts.
From: "The Qingming Festival" by Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty