Why did the ancients say "it rains in succession during the Qingming Festival"

The ancients attached great importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day, because the Qingming comes, the weather gets warmer, the climate is humid, the rain increases, everything recovers, and the earth is full of vitality, which is a good season for spring ploughing and sowing.

However, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, it is drizzling in the south of the Yangtze River and South China. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, there was Du Mu's poem Qingming, which said, "The Qingming rains continuously, and pedestrians want to hurt their souls on the road." In other words, Qingming is the rainy season in Mao Mao. Every family should worship their ancestors and sweep their graves. Pedestrians on the road are very sad, as if they have lost their souls.

Du Mu in the Riverside Scene of Qingming Festival

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

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

Vernacular translation

During the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, the drizzle drifted one after another, and all the passengers on the road were down and out.

Where can local people buy wine to drown their sorrows? The shepherd boy just smiled and pointed to Xinghuashan Village.