Tomb-Sweeping Day's Creative Background

In 2007, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the poet returned to his hometown of Xing Zi County from Nanchang to pay homage to his ancestors and sweep the grave. Although the spring is thick and the peach blossoms and green willows are lined up all the way, it is foggy and rainy. When the car drove into the village, the sight in front of him surprised him. A small village that was usually silent suddenly became very lively. There are many different cars parked in front of and behind the house, and some of them are also licensed by coastal cities such as Guangdong and Shanghai. When asked, it turned out that the successful people in the village who went to work in other places and coastal cities also returned to the village from thousands of miles away to worship their ancestors and sweep the graves. The Chinese nation has a history of more than 2,000 years in the custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. It was only in the sixties and seventies that it was considered as a feudal superstition and was restricted, and it was not until the nineties that it began to revive. Entering the 2 1 century, in 2008, Tomb-Sweeping Day officially became a national holiday, with one day off.

This time, the poet and his family went up the mountain to sweep the grave. Although the muddy road is slippery, the silent mountain is suddenly crowded with people on Qingming Day. Looking at the ancestral graves of villages and families from a distance, every smoky place shows that people are solemnly and quietly burning incense to worship their deceased ancestors. Seeing this scene again reminds Heshui Zuo of a seven-character quatrain "Village Qingming" written in his hometown a few years ago:

"Cheerful and clear, swift voice swallowed willow lost soul. Silent castle peak people rush, money, paper and candles are offered to the tomb of the first Lord. "

On the way down the mountain, the poet pondered over a new poem (this poem), which was published in Jiangxi Poetry Magazine and Poetry Tide.