What is the meaning of the phrase "the rain falls during the Qingming Festival"?

First of all, the correct word is "时节" not "节时".

"The rain falls one after another at the time of the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." The meaning of "want" is: as if; as if to.

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Source: Tang Dynasty - Du Mu "Qingming"

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Originally published:

There is a flurry of rain during the Qingming Festival,

The pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

Where can I find a tavern?

The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

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Translation:

Jiangnan Ching Ming Festival rain has been sprinkled,

Road detained pedestrians are all down and broken soul.

Ask the locals where they can buy wine to drown their sorrows.

The shepherd boy smiled and pointed to a village deep in the apricot blossoms.

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Notes:

Ching Ming: one of the twenty-four solar terms, around the fifth day of the fourth month of the solar calendar. Old custom on that day there are tomb sweeping, trekking, willow planting and other activities. Palace to the day for the Swing Festival, Kun Ning Palace and the harem are placed on the swing, concubines do swing play.

Have: describe more.

Broken Soul: describes a deep sadness, as if the soul is to be separated from the body. Broken Soul: A dismal and bored look. These two lines are to say, at the time of the Qingming Festival, it was raining continuously, drizzling down non-stop; in such weather, such a festival, the pedestrians on the road were depressed and their souls were dispersed.

Borrow: please ask.

Apricot Blossom Village: a village deep in apricot blossoms. Today, it is outside the Xiushan Gate in Guichi, Anhui Province. Influenced by this poem, later people often use "Apricot Blossom Village" as the name of the hotel.

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Background:

This poem was first published in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in the Tang Dynasty (1127-1279), and then in the "Selection of a Thousand Poems of Tang and Song Dynasty Sages by the Sectors and Classes" (分门纂类唐宋時贤千家诗选), "A Thousand Poems" (千家詩), and "Tang Poems" (御选唐诗) of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (清康熙). According to Jiangnan Tongzhi, Du Mu, when he was the assassin of Chizhou, once went to the Apricot Blossom Village to drink wine, and the Apricot Blossom Village in the poem refers to this. Nearby are Du Lake, Southeast Lake and other scenic spots.

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Appreciation:

The weather is very changeable during the Qingming Festival, sometimes the spring is bright and sunny, the flowers are red and the willows are green, and sometimes it is drizzling and raining. In the first sentence, "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival," which characterizes the "flaming rain," the second sentence, "The pedestrians on the roads are not in the same condition as they were at the time of the earthquake. The second line, "The passers-by want to break their souls," describes the state of mind of the passers-by. The second line, "the roadwalkers want to break their souls," describes the state of mind of the roadwalkers. "Break their souls" refers to the feeling of being very miserable and sad inside but not showing it outwardly.

Why is this pedestrian "wanting to break his soul"? Because Qingming was a big festival in ancient China, and as a rule it was a time for family reunions and visits to graves, or for trekking in the spring. Now this pedestrian is alone, in an unfamiliar place to rush, the heart of the feeling is not good, but also the rain, clothing all wet, the state of mind will be even more confused and chaotic.

How to get rid of the sadness? Pedestrians naturally think: it is best to find a restaurant in the vicinity, one to rest his feet, to avoid the rain; the second to drink a little wine, to relieve the cold; more importantly, you can use the wine to dispel the heart of the . Sorrow. So he asked for directions: "I ask where is the wine home?" Who he asked was not specified. The word "shepherd boy" in the last sentence "the shepherd boy pointed to the village of apricot blossoms" is both the subject of this sentence and a complementary explanation of the object of the question in the previous sentence.

The shepherd boy's reply was in the form of action instead of words, and as the pedestrians followed the direction of his finger, they could only see that in the top of a tree with red apricots in full blossom, there was a wine-wangzi (a banner for ancient hotels) faintly revealed.

The poem ends abruptly here, leaving it to the reader's imagination how the pedestrians were delighted by the news, excitedly rushed forward, found a hotel and drank a few cups, and gained the satisfaction of sheltering from the rain, relieving the cold, and dispelling the sorrows, etc. The poem has been widely circulated, and it has been widely used by the readers. Due to the wide circulation of this poem, the three words "Xinghuacun" became the elegant name of the restaurant in later generations.

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Author introduction:

Du Mu (803-about 852 AD), the character Mu Zhi, the name Fanchuan Jushi, Han nationality, Jingzhao Wannian (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), Tang Dynasty poet. Du Mu was known as "Little Du" to distinguish him from Du Fu. He was also known as "Little Li Du" with Li Shangyin. In his later years, he lived in Fanchuan Villa, south of Chang'an, so he was called "Du Fanchuan", and authored "Fanchuan Anthology".