Translation of Zou Ping and Guo's Poems on Three Days of Qingming Festival

Three days after Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zou Pinghe's poems were translated as follows:

The rain in Xiyuan stopped, and bloom stopped. Everything was arranged. The distant green hills surround the county seat, and the birds in the sky break through the smoke and soar into the sky.

The author introduces:

Wang Shizhen (1634-1711), whose real name is Ruan Ting, was also named Yu Yangshan and a native of Xincheng (now Huantai, Shandong). Qing Shunzhi fifteen years (1658), Jinshi. Exhausted officials of the ministers of punishments. Later, I was fired for some things. Gong Shi, who advocated the theory of verve, was one of the leading figures in poetry at that time, including Complete Works in Class.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, have an outing and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or solar calendar reaches 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the node time is around April 5 of Gregorian calendar.

At this time, the vitality is booming, the yin is declining, everything is "going to the old and welcoming the new", and the earth presents a scene full of spring, which is a good time to go for a walk in the spring and sweep the graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day, who worships his ancestors, is very long. There are two statements: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.