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What does it mean to wash the city in March?

Catkin is flying and spider silk is swimming. March is late spring, and the wind and rain are washing away the flowers in the city.

Quoted from Song and Huang Tingjian's See Twenty Brothers Advocating Peace and Five Flowers Flourishing, Part One.

In March, wind and rain washed a city of flowers.

I don't know Dongguo Qingming wine, like Grain Rain tea in West Window.

Translation:

Catkin is flying and spider silk is swimming. March is late spring, and the wind and rain are washing away the flowers in the city.

I don't know what it's like to drink Qingming wine outside Dongcheng instead of * * drinking Wuyu tea under the west window.

Extended data writing background:

In the fourth year of Song Zhiping (1067), Huang Tingjian was admitted as a scholar and served as the county magistrate of Yexian County in Ruzhou. Xi Ningchu took four exams for Beijing officials. He became a professor in imperial academy because he wrote the best paper. Wen Yanbo, who stayed behind, thought he was talented and asked him to continue teaching.

Su Shi once read his poems and thought that his poems were extraordinary and independent of thousands of poems. There was no such masterpiece in the world for a long time. As a result, his reputation began to shake everywhere.

Huang Tingjian served as the magistrate of Taihe County for the convenience of governing the county. At that time, the class awarded salt burning, and other counties were vying for the majority. Taihe county is not alone, and the county officials are not happy, but all the people in the county like it.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng in Song Shenzong (1085), he was called into the capital with the secretary of the provincial school. Huang Xiang was born in May, and later served as a reviewer of Zongshen's memoirs, including Zuo Lang. In the first year of you in Song and Yuan Dynasties (1086), Zhezong ascended the throne and appointed Huang Tingjian as the proofreader of Zongshenlu.

In the second year of the Song and Yuan Dynasties (1087), his works were transferred to Zuo Lang, and a collation of sages was added. After the compilation of Records of Zongshen, it was promoted to be alive. Huang Tingjian, who lost his mother, is filial. His mother was ill for a year. He looked at the color day and night, took off his clothes and died. He built a room beside the tomb to observe filial piety, and his grief almost killed him. After the mourning was lifted, he became a secretary, was promoted to Ming Dow, and was also a national history editor.

Jiangxi Poetry School was formed in the late Northern Song Dynasty with Du Fu as the ancestor and Huang Tingjian, Chen Weizong as the ancestor (that is, "one ancestor and three schools"). Huang Tingjian is the founder and leader of Jiangxi Poetry School. This school advocates Huang Tingjian's theory of "turning iron into gold, robbing a fetus to change bones". Moreover, the members of the poetry school are mostly influenced by Huang Tingjian, and their poetry creation style is mainly chanting the life of the study and paying attention to the scrutiny skills of words.