Qingming Festival

Tang Dynasty: Du Mu

It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die.

Ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village. ?

Translation

Drizzle falls one after another during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and all the travelers on the road are in despair.

May I ask the locals where to buy wine to drown their sorrows? The shepherd boy smiled and pointed to Xinghua Mountain Village in the distance.

Appreciation

This day was the Qingming Festival. The poet Du Mu was walking on the road and encountered rain. Although Qingming is a time of bright spring flowers and bright spring flowers, it is also a time when the climate is prone to changes, often causing "bad weather". As far back as the Liang Dynasty, someone recorded that during the Cold Food Festival two days before Qingming, there were often "strong winds and even rain". If it rains on the Qingming Festival, it is also called "Fire Rain". It was such a day that the poet encountered.

This little poem contains not a single difficult word, nor a single allusion. The whole poem is written in very popular language, and is written with great ease, without any trace of artificiality. In art, this is a technique of starting from low to high, gradually rising, and putting the climax at the end. The so-called climax is not a sweeping view and a dull feeling, but a vague and thought-provoking aftertaste. These are the poet's brilliance, and they are also worthy of our learning and inheritance!