Translation and Annotation of Tomb-Sweeping Day

During the Qingming Festival, the weather is getting warmer, catkins are flying and flowers are blooming. Next, I will bring you a Tang poem about Du Mu. Qingming, I hope you like it!

day of mourning

Author: Du Mu

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.

To annotate ...

1, Qingming: the name of the solar term, April 4th or 5th in the solar calendar every year. This poem, Fan Chuan's collection of poems "Bieji Quantang Poetry" has not been collected. It was first seen in Xie Fangde's Poems of a Thousand Families.

",Xie Zhen thought it was written by Du Mu in Ming Dynasty.

2. Pedestrians: This refers to people who travel outside.

3, desire: almost, simple.

4. Soul-breaking: It is a metaphor for sadness and sorrow, as if the soul should be separated from the body.

5. Sorry: Sorry.

6. Restaurant: Hotel.

7. Xinghua Village: A village in the depths of apricot flowers, which was named after a place famous for its wine making.

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When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the poet couldn't go home to visit the grave, but it was no longer a taste to travel alone on a foreign road. Besides, the weather is not good, a sullen face, the drizzle of cattle hair will fall one after another, the eyes are foggy, and the spring clothes are wet. Poet, it's heartbreaking! Find a hotel to shelter from the rain, warm up and eliminate the sadness in your heart, but where is the hotel? The poet thought about it and asked the shepherd boy by the roadside. The little shepherd boy riding on the back of the cow pointed to the distance with his hand-oh, in the village full of apricot flowers, the cover of a hotel was raised high, attracting pedestrians!