Heavy snow is the twenty-first of the twenty-four solar terms, the ancients cloud: "The great one, Shengye, so far and the snow is also prosperous." At this time, the snow tends to fall large and wide, hence the name heavy snow. After the heavy snow festival, the weather was even colder.
During the heavy snow season, China's vast land has been draped in winter costumes, and there has been snow in the Yellow River Basin, and further north, it is already a northern scenery of "dry ice, thousands of miles of snow".
However, in the south, especially in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta, it is still lush and green, which is very different from the climate in the north. At this time, the climate in South China is also characterized by foggy.
In ancient times, China divided heavy snow into three seasons; "one waits for the crane and gull to not whine; the second waits for the tiger to make love; and the third waits for the lychee to stand out." "One wait: the crane gulls do not chirp." It means that this season, the weather is cold, the birds have no trace, the animals are gone, and even the cold trumpet birds have stopped calling.
Second Waiting: The Tiger Begins to Hand Over. Tigers are mammalian carnivores and generally have a mating period from November to February. Judging from the seasons, the snow festival is the period of tiger courtship mating, which is the warmest thing in this cold season.
Three waits: Li stands out. "Phenology": In the snow season, everything is silent, and the maran flower grows out of the ground at this time. In this lonely and cold winter, they take the sky as the quilt and the snow as the pillow, and they contain a powerful life force, which alone fights against the cold and shocks people's hearts.
"Fishing alone in the snow of the cold river", "returning to people at night in the wind and snow", "heavy snow full of bow knives", in the eyes of the literati, this flying sky is poetry and poetry. Heavy snow has a special significance for literati.
On the third day of heavy snowfall, the West Lake was full of people and birds. Zhang Dai, a Ming dynasty, took a boat to the Huxin Pavilion to see the snow, and when he went to the pavilion, he encountered two Jinling guests sitting opposite each other drinking. The boatman murmured, "Don't say that Xiang Gong is stupid, and he is even more foolish like Xiang Gong." "It's a snow-watching idiot.
For farmers, heavy snow has another meaning, the so-called "Ruixue Mega Year", busy for a year, can finally put away farm tools for a while. Heavy snow is their yearning for a better future.