Little cold
Xiao Han is the penultimate of the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth after entering winter. There is a saying in the "Explanation of the Seventy-two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order": "Xiao Han, December Festival." At the beginning of the month, the cold is still small, so the clouds. Although Xiao Han represents "the sky is getting colder, it has not yet been cold", but people often say "count nine cold days, cold in three nine", the small cold festival is in the "two nine" and "three nine" period, in the northern region there is a "small cold is better than the big cold, common is not rare" saying.
How cold is Xiao Han? The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu said, "In the Han Dynasty, Chang'an was snowy, and the hair of cattle and horses shrank like a hedgehog." The poet Li He saw, "The frost flowers and grass are as big as money, and the sword is not lost in the sky." In Fan Jie's painting "Lushan Snow And Clear Map", Lushan after the snow is wrapped in silver and appears clear and clear. Thousands of trees are full of "pear blossoms", which decorate the plain winter with a smart touch. The painter focuses his attention on a corner of the lofty mountains and mountains, and shows the ice and snow world he has realized in a close-up way. Everything in the valley was silent, and if you could hear the sound, I thought that the old branches of a tree could not resist the weight of the white snow.
"Little cold, big cold, frozen into a ball." Wouldn't it be happy to hold a bowl of hot laba porridge in such a situation? In Dai Shuliang's folk painting "Little Cold", people lined up under the wax plum branches, and a bowl of hot porridge made everyone show their hands in the cold winter, and it seemed to have an "artifact" to resist low temperatures. In front of the monks who shared food for everyone, the fire "crackled" and burned vigorously, and the hot air mixed with the aroma steamed up from the mouth of the pot, and it seemed that it was about to rise outside the painting. As the saying goes, "three nine supplements a winter, the next year without pain", at this time the folk diet is also based on tonic, Lapa porridge is the most famous one. In the people's gastronomic memory, sugar fried chestnuts, lamb hot pot, baked sweet potatoes... They also add a warm sweetness to the cold winter.
"No wonder it is strict and condensed, spring and winter are the first and first moon." The ancients believed that although the cold season was unbearable, it was about to usher in the intersection of winter and spring. Therefore, there are three seasons for Xiaohan: Yanbei Township, Magpie First Nest, Pheasant First Plover, and birds have taken the lead in feeling the breath of spring from the cold winter. The heavens and the earth are cold, and all things are hidden in the snow. Midwinter is nine, and the new year is approaching. Through the clear air, everything outside the window became clear, and there was an invisible cold wind between the buildings, but everything seemed to be static. But in fact, time is quietly giving birth to a new life in such a "stagnation".
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