The anchor reads the classics and accompanies you to say goodnight, hello everyone! Here is the lightning night reading, I am Yucheng Rong Media anchor Pang Weiwei, winter solstice, commonly known as "winter festival" "long solstice festival", is the traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the ancients have "winter solstice as big as the year" saying, those who are wandering away to this season to go home for the winter solstice, the so-called "year-end home". Tonight I would like to share with you an excerpt from author February River's article "The Taste of the Winter Solstice".
"The Taste of the Winter Solstice" (excerpt)
Text/February River
Our family is a home of wandering and encountering peace, and I don't remember the winter solstice festival since I was a child. Wherever the parents go, they are not big officials, but each person is in charge of a unit, a mess, unless the holiday, or even the festival with the holiday, we find out what kind of "festival" it was. You open the calendar, and every year the winter solstice is December 22 of the Gregorian calendar, which is not a public holiday, and generally speaking, it is not a public holiday. Winter solstice, what happened to the winter solstice? It was only after the year of disarmament and returning home that I heard a friend and family say, "Don't eat dumplings on the winter solstice, freeze off the roots of your ears." "Later, to find out the historical data, we needed to understand the folklore, checked it, and was surprised, this was originally a big festival, how big is it?" The winter solstice is as big as the year! ”。
The day before the winter solstice, families have actually taken action, relatives and friends, exchanging food, the scene is "carrying baskets and boxes, filling the road" - this is famously called the "Winter Solstice Plate Festival". All the shops in the streets and alleys will put out the unique offerings of the winter solstice, "winter solstice recommended crisp candy", the big one with the filling is called "powder ball", and the small one without the filling is called "powder circle", which is the must-have of the ancestral tablets. The night before the winter solstice, the family wants to be reunited, and the same as the new year's Chinese New Year's Eve, this night pays attention to the family reunion, an outsider can not be present, even the daughter who returns to the mother's house is also an "outsider" - sorry, you still go back to your mother-in-law's house for the winter solstice! Then stir-fry and blanch wine, worship ancestors, worship gods, and feast on the family - all the ceremonies are like the New Year, and they do not cross the thunder pool at all, and they do not dare to be sloppy. When Dao Xian shilang Yan Du had a poem, he said, "To the Jiejia family to talk about the ritual of things, usher in the sending of trouble." Foot money is full of idle things, but the original things are returned again when they are long"--every family has sent them, food and snacks have been reincarnated, and they have been sent back to their homes--this matter has been around since ancient times! As far as people's "holiday psychology" is concerned, the night of the "winter solstice Chinese New Year's Eve" is the most exciting and happy moment for people. After this night, the next morning, people changed into new clothes, "to congratulate the elders, and to each other", "worship winter", the atmosphere of the festival is still there, and the spirit of the "festival" has actually been secretly "vented" - this one is almost the same as our Spring Festival.
From this day on, "nine consecutive winters" entered the "cathode" of the year, a total of eighty-one days. The history books record that in the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the crown prince Yinrong was deposed, and in the spring of the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, it was re-established. From the winter solstice of the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, this old emperor with an extremely complicated mood set up a piece of paper in the Qianqing Palace, on which he wanted to write nine words, quite famous "weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherishing the spring wind", not in one go, nine strokes per word. Every day I came to write a pen and left, writing a total of 9981 days. Well, spring has come, the river has opened the goose, and the earth's cathode yang has been born, announcing the restoration of the prince.
This winter solstice, Kangxi must have thought carefully and racked his brains. However, the people of the world will not have the state of mind of "as I smell", and they also have a proverb: 1929, summoning each other to shoot. Thirty-nine twenty-seven, the hedge blows chestnut. Four nine thirty-six, night sleep like open sleep. Five-nine-forty-five, poor man street dance (to celebrate the end of winter). Don't dance, don't dance, and spring cold forty-five! Six nine fifty-four, fly stack house (flies begin to move), seven nine sixty-three, cloth sleeves two shoulder stalls. Eighty-nine-seventy-two, cats and dogs lie cold. Ninety-nine eighty-one, the poor man was finished, just about to stretch his feet to sleep, mosquitoes and fleas came out. Also after the cold day of "Counting Nine" of ninety-nine and eighty-one days, the Imperial Forbidden City and the Qianshou of The Imperial Palace were in a different state of affairs.
The winter solstice is like a year. "as" is used, not "with". If there is a big difference with the year, it is that the winter solstice festival is short, a bit like "simplifying the year", the big procedure is almost the same, on the details of the week, it is bad, can be seen as a "New Year rehearsal". When people celebrate this festival, they show their worship and reverence for the winter season from heaven, and pray that they and their families will safely survive the cold season of slaughter.
I'm a little surprised that people are getting serious about the winter solstice now. I found that everyone who could take a vacation on this day was on vacation. Those who go to work seem to be much more relaxed - leave work early to buy vegetables. Walk into the alley, you will hear everyone chopping dumpling stuffing - the days are better, whether it is Jesus, Shakyamuni or the solar calendar year, Valentine's Day, or the winter solstice, people want to live a good holiday.
About the Author:
February River (November 3, 1945 – December 15, 2018), formerly known as Ling Jiefang, is a contemporary writer whose representative works include novels such as "The Kangxi Emperor", "Yongzheng Emperor", and "Qianlong Emperor".
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