Twelve elegant names for winter, fresh and elegant

Three Winters

The ancients took October as Mengdong, November as midwinter, and December as the season winter, and collectively called the three months "Three Winters", which was used to refer to winter. For example, in the poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Two of the Five Songs of Dispatching Xing", there are sentences such as "The dragon sleeps in three winters, and the old crane is in the heart of the crane".

Nine winters

Winter lasts for 90 days in three months, so winter is also known as "nine winters". For example, there is a sentence in the poem of the Southern Dynasty Shen Yue's "Night Cranes on the Night": "Nine winters bear frost and snow, and six flying is not allowed."

Winter

"Strict" has the meaning of "degree of depth", so "severe winter" has become another generation of extremely cold winter. For example, in the Tang Dynasty monk Guan Xiu's "Plugged Down Song", "The river is dry in the severe winter, and the prostitute Yao goes to strike deeply".

Clear winter

In winter, everything is depressed, and the heavens and the earth are cold, so winter is also known as "clear winter". For example, in the Tang Dynasty poet Huang Furan's poem "Winter Night Collection Endowed with Cold Leaks", "Luoyang guests in the qing winter, cold leaks build zhangtai".

Xuan Dong

"Xuan" is black, in ancient times, the four squares were the position of the four seasons, and the northern winter position, its color was black, so winter was also called "Xuan Dong". For example, in the poem "Poor Soldier's Poem" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "There is no end to the hot summer, and there is no warm brown in the winter".

Poor winter

"Poor", exhaustively. Winter is the last season of the year, so it is also known as "poor winter". For example, in the Tang Dynasty Huang Tao's poem "Sending Friends to Travel to the Side", "The Guanhe River sets at the beginning of the sun, and the frost and snow are poor in winter".

Poor yin

In ancient times, spring and summer were yang, autumn and winter were yin, and winter was the last season of the year, so it was called. For example, Bai Juyi has such a verse in the poem "Looking at the Evening Sky" and "Looking North and South to the Evening Cang, Poor Yin Travel Thinking Two Boundless".

Hokuriku

The Sui Shu Zhi 15th Astronomical Zhong, Seven Yaos says: "The sun follows the zodiac to the east, one day and one night, and three hundred and sixty-five days have strange and weekly days." The Journey to the East is called the Spring... The North Continent is called winter".

Hokuriku originally referred to the location of the sun in winter, and was later used as a substitute for winter. For example, in the Second of the Western Jin Dynasty Zhang Zai's "Two Seven Lamentations", "Zhu Guangchi began to the north of the land, and the floating scenery suddenly sank to the west".

Xuan Ying

Erya Shi Tian: "Winter is Xuanying". Later generations therefore used it as winter. For example, wei zheng in the Tang Dynasty", "The Taoist Temple's Inner Cypress Endowment": "Involving Qingyang does not increase its brilliance, and Li Xuanying does not reduce its greenery."

Occult order

Xuan, the color of winter, the order, the season. The name "occult" is used to refer to the winter. For example, Tang Xu Jingzong's poem "Fenghe Shou Nian System": "Jade pendant shifts the Xuan order, and the golden song rewards Tong Min".

Strict

For example, in Liang Renshi's poem "Gift to Xu Zhengjun", "Why express lovesickness, Zhensong is good at strict festivals".

More than years

The ancients read books and had the so-called "three surpluses". The three remnants: the winter is the rest of the year, the night is the rest of the day, and the rain is the rest of the time. And the winter reading effect of "more than one year" is the best.

The Book of Han and the Biography of Dongfang Shuo contains: Emperor Wu of the Eastern Shuo Shangshu describes himself: "Chenshuo lost few parents and raised brothers and sisters-in-law. Thirteen years of study books, three winters of literature and history are fully used."

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