Qingming / Du Mu, four-line jueju text

Du Mu's Qingming: Text, Pinyin, and Translation

Du Mu's Qingming: Text, Pinyin, and Translation with original text, pinyin, a literal rendering, a readable translation, source location, key terms, and a careful modern reading.

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Du Mu Qingming poem original Chinese pinyin translation meaning

Qingming, Du Mu, four-line jueju text: read "清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。" before the English explanation.

Original text

清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。

Qingming shi jie yu fen fen, lu shang xing ren yu duan hun. Jie wen jiu jia he chu you? Mu tong yao zhi Xinghua cun.

Literal layer

At Qingming season, rain falls in a confused drizzle; on the road, travelers feel as if their spirits would break. I ask where there is a wine shop; a herd boy points far away toward Apricot Blossom Village.

Readable layer

Du Mu's Qingming turns a rainy festival road into a tiny narrative: seasonal rain, a grief-struck traveler, a practical question, and a distant gesture toward shelter.

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu from The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection — **Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu; Various artists; Gift of Julia and John Curtis, 2015; The Metropolitan Museum of Art.**Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu is used as a public-domain poem or landscape surface for line-order reading on Du Mu's Qingming. The fit is semantic: the page asks readers to inspect Du Mu, four-line jueju text and the term Qingming, while the image remains illustrative rather than proof of the exact manuscript, author portrait, or historical scene.

Reader focus

What this page helps you decide

Du Mu's Qingming is often remembered for rain and Apricot Blossom Village, but the poem is not only a scenic festival card. Its four lines make a small journey: Qingming rain thickens the road, the traveler feels close to spiritual collapse, the search for a wine shop becomes a search for human relief, and the shepherd boy answers by pointing into distance. The poem's power comes from that compressed movement.

Watch Qingming, yu fen fen, yu duan hun; these terms decide where the literal layer and the readable layer separate.
Compare this page with Liu Zongyuan's River Snow and Wang Wei's Parting before treating Qingming as a simple rainy festival quote.

The Poem Before Paraphrase

This block uses Qingming, Du Mu, four-line jueju text as the anchor, with "清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花..." kept in front of the explanation.

Full Text: The page uses all four lines because the poem depends on sequence. Rain alone is not the whole poem. The traveler, question, shepherd boy, and distant village are all needed. If the final village name is quoted without the road and rain, the poem becomes a pretty label rather than a scene of unsettled festival travel.

Qingming Setting: Qingming is a seasonal and ritual marker, so the opening line already carries memory, travel, and mourning pressure. The rain is not generic weather. It falls during a time associated with graves, ancestors, roads, and returning attention. That context makes the traveler's emotional state plausible rather than melodramatic.

Rain As Texture: Yu fen fen describes rain as scattered, confused, or thickly falling. The line does not paint a clean landscape. It creates a wet, blurred road where movement feels slowed. This wording matters because the second line's emotional break grows out of the weather's pressure rather than appearing from nowhere.

Traveler On The Road: Lu shang xing ren points to a person in transit, not a settled observer. Yu duan hun is intense, but it is attached to a road scene during a charged season. The poem does not explain the traveler biographically. It gives just enough situation for the reader to feel dislocation, exposure, and the need for relief.

Images, Sound, And Emotional Turn

The Question: Jie wen jiu jia he chu you changes the poem from mood into action. The traveler asks where a wine shop can be found. Wine is not simply indulgence here. In the poem's tiny structure, it stands for warmth, shelter, company, or a place where a person on the road can pause.

Shepherd Boy's Gesture: The final line is visual rather than explanatory. A shepherd boy points far away toward Xinghua cun, Apricot Blossom Village. The poem does not take the traveler there. It leaves the page with a gesture, a direction, and a name. That distance is part of the poem's charm and melancholy.

Du Mu's Qingming Translation Limit: This working translation keeps Xinghua cun as Apricot Blossom Village, but readers should know that the name carries literary resonance beyond a map label. The page avoids turning the poem into a sentimental prose scene. It preserves the four steps: season, road, question, pointing.

Du Mu's Qingming Reading Payoff: This page differs from Wang Wei's Parting because Du Mu's poem moves through a public festival road and a practical request, not quiet farewell restraint. It differs from River Snow because Qingming is damp, social, and directional, while River Snow removes nearly all human traces. The article gives readers a source-based way to quote Apricot Blossom Village without losing the rainy road.

Keep the term set visible here: Qingming, yu fen fen, yu duan hun. The reading changes if one of these terms is translated too smoothly.

The reading should end in one practical move: Compare this page with Liu Zongyuan's River Snow and Wang Wei's Parting before treating Qingming as a simple rainy festival quote.

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