Xinghua Village in the poem refers to the village deep in the apricot blossoms, located in the Fengtai Mountain area of ??Qinhuai District, Nanjing City.

"Qingming"

Author: Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty

It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die.

May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.

Vernacular translation: During the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, drizzle falls one after another, and all the travelers on the road are in despair. Where can I buy wine? The shepherd boy smiled without answering and pointed to the village deep in the apricot blossoms.

Extended information:

The original site of Xinghua Village is located in the southwest corner of present-day Nanjing City, in the low hills south of Fengtai Mountain and Hualugang. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was adjacent to the downtown area of ??Changganli and was a densely populated area. During the Liu and Song Dynasties of the Southern Dynasties, Xinghua Village was famous for selling the "Jinlingchun" wine. The wine in the village was popular and the aroma of wine overflowed. It was sometimes said that "when you come to Xinghua Village, you will be intoxicated even if you don't drink it."

Du Mu, a great poet in the late Tang Dynasty, was the governor of Chizhou at the time. In the spring of the seventh year of Yamato (833), he went from Xuanzhou to the Huainan Festival in Yangzhou to visit the envoy's residence. He passed through Jiangning (now Nanjing) and recited seven-character quatrains. , describing the scene where he sells wine. The poet used this majestic and elegant style of writing to describe the broad subject matter of reality. The poem "Qingming" with its distinctive characteristics was sung all over the country. For thousands of years, the line "The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village in the distance" has been passed down by the world, and Xinghua Village has also become famous all over the world with the poem.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Xinghua Village

Baidu Encyclopedia-Qingming Festival