Zou Qingping
After the Winter Solstice Festival, entering the cold season, I suddenly remembered the popular saying in the countryside deep in the Daba Mountains of my hometown, "Little cold, big cold, frozen to death lazy man." Diligent and fast, hot New Year's Day". Of course, there is also a saying in the hometown " 1929 , intervention in the arms , three nine forty-nine, stone freezing ", or "three-nine-four-nine, frozen old dog", also said "three nine four-nine, ling ice walk". At that time, the hometown in the deep mountains was cold and windy, ice and snow, and cold and frozen.
People in their hometown use diligent hands to generate heat in hard work, produce warmth, and drive away the cold. They smell the chicken dancing, industrious and brave, do not sit still and wait for the cold, everyone actively participates in labor, it is indeed not cold, and the heat that comes out of the speech is more conspicuous in the cold wind, more clear, steaming.
On cold days, we usually play at home or at school, divided into groups to do either the game of comic dashing, or the game of squeezing the oil residue with force, but also fighting cocks, kicking shuttlecocks and so on. Our parents encouraged us to do these sports games to generate heat and withstand the cold. In this way, although the clothes on the body are thin, they will also be steaming and warm. There is also a cold game, that is, to cut a card of thick ice in the winter paddy field into a piece larger than a book or half a newspaper, to pinch the grain grass with your fingers to be five inches long, in the middle of the ice cube or at the golden section, blow the ice with the details of the grain grass, use the heat blown by people to gradually warm up, blow it into a small hole in the ice, put on the palm tree leaves, hang it up and shake it back and forth, and compete among children to see whose ice cube is large, solidified for a long time, and there is no cold feeling at all in labor. When children do these games, adults stand for a while in the interval of labor, either helping to teach by example, or encouraging and helping, and children are more and more interested, winning or losing in the cold, cold is nothing, smiling.
In the depths of the mountains, when the winter vacation was the coldest, a few of our elementary school classmates put on their backs early in the morning, took machetes, put on browns, shouted to each other into the forest deep in the mountains to cut firewood, ice and snow, frost everywhere, tree trunks, branches, leaves, either icicles, or trunk branches and leaves, wrapped in thick snow in the cold night cold like barrel-shaped ice cream, ice sticks, ice sticks, horizontal seven vertical eight, orderly shelf in the air, the senior Long Dazhou classmates told us that this is called jade tree Qiongzhi, and also recited Chen Yi's "The snow presses the pine, the pine is straight and straight, know that the pine is high and clean, and stay until the snow melts" verse. We followed the roar, jade tree qiong branch oh, heavy snow crushing the branches oh. In the woods, with a machete to cut the branches, snow and ice brushed down on our heads, necks, ears, but all because of the heat of our labor, cold snow and ice on the body, or fell on the neck, just a cold shock, the cold feeling was immediately overwhelmed and integrated by the heat, we all just laughed Oh, feel very comfortable, but also compete to see who is not afraid of the cold. Sometimes classmates will also do pranks between each other, put a large piece of ice or a bunch of snow, put it in the back of other people's neck sockets when who is not paying attention, melt with body temperature, then laugh at each other and ask if it is cold, no one says cold, no one has ever been angry, and no one has ever said that when doing these games, someone has a cold because there are ice cubes in the vest or snow.
The most impressive thing is that one year before the New Year, a few days ago, the cold wind, the cold frost, in order to prepare the New Year goods, my mother told me to cross the mountains to exchange peas for vermicelli, I think it is my mother who trusts me, and did not say the reason for the cold. Because the steep sheep gut trail of the high mountain road is very far, you need to start with your back at dawn in the morning, and the temperature outside is particularly low, about minus five degrees, and the surrounding area of the house is either frozen, or whitehead cream, or played with tung oil (this is the coldest sign). As soon as I went out, I didn't get used to it, shivered, and immediately calmed down for a while and set off. The cold, the cold wind hit my marching face, really like a knife cutting a cone, I thought of the trust of my parents, I thought of eating vermicelli in the New Year, the cold was ignored, there was no retreat, stepping on the frost and walking on the ice, striding forward against the cold wind. After about fifteen minutes, the whole body gradually warmed up, getting hotter and hotter, I later opened my clothes and marched, the hot air exhaled was white, forming a sharp contrast in the cold wind, becoming a beautiful scenery, becoming the source of my bravery, the heat exhaled while walking, becoming the goal of transcendence in my advance in the cold, and when I arrived at the powder home, I was praised by "this baby is not afraid of cold, not afraid of difficulties". When I returned home, my whole family also praised me for being "not afraid of cold or bitterness.". I was extremely happy in my heart, just like "the high sky is rolling cold and the earth is slightly warm and blowing."
I experienced a very cold environment in my hometown, and later in my life there was no fear of cold. In September 2005, after the municipal government moved west, throughout the year, when it was frost and snow, I never slackened on Xianhe Road and Binhe Road, and on a cold and cold day, when I was traveling along the beautiful state river, I also encountered cold river winds and bone-chilling cold winds, and the two sides of the road were covered with white-headed frost. Because when I was a child, I felt and experienced days and scenes that were even more cold than this in the mountains, and this cold is not worth mentioning. The season of the nine cold days did not stop me from starting early, walking to work, walking fast for a while, steaming with energy, happily walking to the office in the warmth, and starting to complete the new day's work tasks.
Cold and frozen days, like the majestic father and kind mother in the depths of Daba Mountain, encourage and spur us to overcome the courage to overcome difficulties.
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