Winter snow falls: a cold wind rises overnight, and thousands of trees and silver blossoms bloom

In winter, people look forward to encountering snowflakes. The snowflakes that are blowing up are the best interpretation of winter. The sound of snow falling, the sound of heavenly sounds, is a movement in which man and nature coexist in harmony, which can evoke the simplest joy in people's hearts.

The words of the ancients left us with unlimited imagination about snow. Today, let's look for the figure of snow in the old paper pile.

There is no doubt that the ancients loved snow, and the elegant name for snow can be described as a unique machine. Other names for snow are: Six Flowers, Qionghua, Willow Silk, Plum Pieces, Ruiye, Broken Rice, Silver Millet, Flying Flowers... The most brain-opening is the alias of snow in Lingnan - canine mania. Yang Wanli wrote in the "Litchi Song": "Cantonese dogs barking snow is not an errand, cantonese people speak like ice and summer insects." In fact, the origin of this name should be attributed to Liu Zongyuan: "Heavy snow over the mountains, by the South Vietnamese central states, the dogs in the state, all barned yellow barking, crazy walkers tired of days." ”

Since ancient times, people have loved to enjoy the scenery and play with the snow. The ancients had nine elegant things, burning incense, tasting tea, listening to the rain, enjoying the snow, waiting for the moon, drinking wine, flowers, seeking the quiet, playing the piano, and leisure to the extreme.

There is snow coming, which is a sign of good fortune. "Ruler snow against inch rain, Ruixue Mega Year" "There are three feet of snow in winter, and humanity is abundant for ten years". Snow also brings endless fun to people, people can roll in the snow, build snowmen, snowballs, snowballs, bird hunting, enjoy the happy time brought by ice and snow.

The "Tokyo Dream Record" said that the people in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, "a noble home, when the snow is opened", often "mold snow lions, install snow lamps, in order to kiss the old". This custom was also popular in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty. The "Record of Dreams" records: "Noble houses, such as the snow falling in the sky, open feasts, trench snow lions, build snow mountains, to meet relatives and friends, shallow and low singing, according to the five incense." Similarly, the record of the "Past Events of Wulin" can also be used as evidence: "Enjoying snow in the forbidden middle, many Yuming Yuanlou, the back garden into the large and small snow lions, and decorated with golden bells and colorful wisps, and snowflakes, snow lanterns, snow mountains, and dripping crisps as flowers and events, and in golden pots for enjoyment." ”

In the Qing Dynasty, this custom was still popular: "Snow in winter, every time in the yangxin hall courtyard is piled up into lions and elephants, Zhi xi zhaofeng, often invite Chen Yong." Qianlong Nongshen and Yi Unitary, with snow lions and snow elephants. Jiaqing Pengyin, also stacked as Woma II, east and west, there are joint poems with Neiting Hanlin. In the "Words of the Fenjing Palace" written by GuangxuJian Yan Jihu, there is a poem about the snow-watching entertainment in the Kaifeng Palace: "Ruixue is colorful and flourishes in the sky, and the lions hold elephants before the steps."

When there is snow coming, people's temperament is revealed: "Sit idly in the pine room, watch the boiled pine on the snow", tortoise Meng likes to boil tea with snow water; "When the tea is boiling in the middle of the night, it is the cold window bamboo Xueming", Sikong Tu likes to drink tea on snowy days; "Monks sit with snow at night, geese smell to the grass hall", Jia Dao likes to sit quietly on snowy nights...

"Idle and hospitable to pour incense ants, sullen to Qionghua yong loose salt." There is no snow coming, "There is no need to learn the customs of the warm cabinet furnace in the human world, why not chant and chant, and send this long night?" "Let us be like a quiet falling snowflake, let go of ourselves, cool down the dry heat of the heart, get away from the hustle and bustle, and return to peace and tranquility." On the winter moon, doubling Qing Geng, and competing with Junyi Liuhua to win. Yutian Qiong crumbs were intertwined, and the battle broke the heavens and the earth to clarify. "Let the pure snow shine in our eyes, let us see the good and the good, see the poetry and the distance."

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