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What month is the Waxing Moon? Why is it called Wax moon? In addition to these three poems written by Lu You in the Waxing Moon, what other poems have you read about the Waxing Moon?
- The origin of the Waxing Moon
December is the last month of the year and the coldest time of the year, with little farming activity and more time to prepare for the New Year. December is commonly known as the end of the year, also known as the remnant winter, the rest of the moon, the Qing Temple, the winter vegetarian, the waxing moon, etc., about dozens of names.
According to the Commentaries on the Interpretation of the Texts, "La, Heye, and the One Who Sacrifices the Gods." The Customs and Customs records the sacrifices according to the order of the dynasties as follows: "Xia Yue Jiaping, Yin Yue Qing Qi, Zhou Yue Da La, Han Changed to La." That is to say, by the time of the Han Dynasty, December was called the Waxing Moon.
"Waxer, hunter." Wax sacrifice is an ancient state ritual system. There is a "Lajie Poem" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties: "The cold is forced to clean up the ceremony, and there is a wine feast Jiaping." Su Xin is what he said, so as to comfort the heart. "It can be seen that the ancient emphasis on wax sacrifices.
In the Zhou Li and Zhou Yi, there are explanations of "meat fu" and "wax flavor" in the "Zhou Li" and "Zhou Yi", and the original meaning of "la" is "dried meat", and the traditional sense of the wax moon is the month of sacrifice. The Son of Heaven will personally participate in the wax sacrifice ceremony in plain clothes, sacrifice the gods related to farming, solemn and solemn rituals, express the idea of respecting heaven and loving the people, and at the same time, the wax moon is upright and all things are decaying, and this solemn ceremony is used to thank the supply of all things, and to send all things to the end, with the meaning of the old year and the birth of a new year.
2. Three poems by Lu You about the Waxing Moon
The patriotic poet Lu You of the Song Dynasty was born in the turmoil of the times, and when he was still in his infancy, he encountered the difficulties of Jingkang, so he was determined to "get on the horse to strike crazy beards and get off the horse to draft military books". However, Lu You, who is bent on serving the country, does not have many opportunities to "live a thousand miles in peace and be the precursor to the king".
The ideal could not be realized, and he issued a cry of "the reverse Hu has not been extinguished, and the lone sword has a sonorous voice at the head of the bed". In 1171, the 47-year-old Lu You, after a brief eight-month period of shubian, was reappointed as a senator of the Chengdu Prefecture Pacification Department, and he wrote that "the clothes are marked with dust and wine, and the soul is lost everywhere." This fit is the poet not? Drizzle rides a donkey into the sword gate. ”
At this point, Lu You's dream of the Northern Expedition was completely shattered. In his later years, Lu You lived in seclusion in his hometown of San'in, and his heart was always unable to give up his love for his homeland.
At the age of 68, he wrote "The Fourth Of November Wind and Rain Masterpiece": "Lying down at night to listen to the wind and rain, the iron horse glacier comes to sleep."
At the age of 84, he still wrote angrily: "I would rather die for a goose slave than be a crane matchmaker." This is the sonorous iron bone of Lu You's firm independent personality.
After several ups and downs of the eunuch sea, he finally understood that nothing could make him happier than the reunion of heaven and the harmony of the family. At the end of the year, write a poem "Waxing Moon", and the leisurely life jumps out on the paper:
December
This winter there is less frost and snow, and the waxing moon is tired of heavy fur.
Gradually move the garden to prosper, and suddenly wide salary charcoal worries.
The mountain spring vein is live, and the willow branches of the village are soft.
Spring cakes are in trouble, and I can ask for vegetables on a day.
Lu You said that there is not much frost and snow this winter, and the cold winter waxing moon does not like heavy clothes the most. Go to the garden for a stroll, the weather is warm and you don't have to worry about charcoal fire is not enough. Spring water is flowing on the hillside, and willow branches are soft in the village market. I don't have to be short of food, and I can eat good vegetables every day.
This is a rare leisure time for land travel, but it does not mean that he blindly lives in seclusion and does not hear about state affairs. On the contrary, it is precisely because he cannot assist Mingjun and have a meritorious society like Yi Yin and Lü Shang in history, so he put down his sword and picked up a pen and paper to express his family and country feelings in another form. He said, "The scholar wants to be a poet for generations, and he is going to be a poet", and declares that "if this poem is not written, to whom does Dan's heart know?" ”。 The so-called "in the heart for the aspiration, speech for the poem." ”
When Lu You was eighty-four years old, he wrote another poem about the Waxing Moon:
On the fourteenth day of the waxing moon, it rained
Late in the year, I live in the lazy outing, and the small window is sent all day long.
The sound of rain to the pillow to help the poetry, flowers hit the clothes and guests are sad.
The stump teeth are overwhelmed, and the thin shoulders turn to feel fluttering.
Before the spring, the snow is still in mind, and Ande Qiongyao accumulates tile ditches.
The poem is pronounced niè wù, which means restless appearance, which here describes loose teeth; "飕飗" is an elephant sound word, pronounced sōu liú, describing cold, cold winds.
In this poem, Lu You is still writing about his idle life in his later years, living in simplicity every day, reading or writing poetry at the window all day long, or looking out the window. Cold rain knocking on the window, or you can add poetic poetry, flowers into the room, nostalgia into the heart. Teeth are loose, people are old and weak, unable to withstand the cold wind. Looking forward to the next snow before the spring, the world is like Qiong Yao, and the ice jade is white.
Five days later, Lu You wrote another poem:
At noon on the nineteenth day of the waxing moon, I went to sleep and resumed my sleep, and lay down until late, and I played
The pillow marks the face of the sheep, and the desire to rise up is not worth dying.
Embracing the quilt but looking for the first dream, covering the screen and redialing the incense.
Although the snow clouds are still cold, the spring will return to the day.
Old age here is nowhere to be found, Hua Xu is really afraid that it is my hometown.
The eighty-four-year-old poet embraced the dream of being sought in the cold of the waxing moon, embraced the dream of "lying in a lonely village without mourning, and still thinking of the wheel platform for the country" in a wisp of incense, dreaming of "recruiting warriors in thousands of gold, building the Great Wall in thousands of miles." When the moon of Aozuka, but according to the Han family camp", his pure heart, a heart of blood, with life looking forward to the spring of the unification of the home country.
On June 24, the third year of Jiading (1210), the eighty-six-year-old Lu You had a clear thinking, strong feelings, and wrote his last poem "Shi'er" in plain language: "The dead Yuan knows everything is empty, but the sorrow does not see Kyushu Tong." Wang ShiBei fixed zhongyuan day, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Naiwong. ”
This is Lu You's will, it is also his last wish, and it is also his first-class fist and patriotic heart.
3. Write the blessings in the waxing moon
At the end of the year, I don't feel cold when I add clothes, and I gain a lot at the end of the year.
I wish you good luck and an auspicious Year of the Tiger. The days are full of wind.
This article is original, and the first published number of Baijia.
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