Until the end of the cold winter waxing moon, it is another year of good spring.
Today is the great cold
The last of the twenty-four solar terms.
It's another year, coming to an end.
Time goes on,
Not for whom to stay, not for whom to retreat.
It's time for us to move forward,
And wave goodbye.
Farewell,
The regrets and regrets of those who grow in the middle of the night;
The hardship and bitterness of those who bite their teeth and swallow;
Over the past year,
All that has not been gained, all that has been lost.
New Year, New Year, New Year,
Under the clean clouds, you and I are new people.
Cold spring
There are three seasons for the great cold:
A wait for chicken milk,
Sensing the yang of warm spring,
The mother chicken has taken on the mission of incubating the chicks.
The second migratory bird is fierce,
At this time, birds such as falcons,
In a state of extreme predatory ability,
Hovering in the air looking for food,
To replenish the body's energy against the cold.
Mizusawa Belly,
At this time the weather is the coldest,
The ice in the waters freezes all the way to the center of the water,
And the strongest, the thickest,
Children can enjoy ice skating on the river.
However, the prosperity of the pole will decline, and the extreme of things will be reversed,
Deep in the seemingly thick layer of ice,
At this time, a stream of spring water is being conceived.
The Great Cold Three Seasons,
The signs are all cold and spring messages.
It reminds me of the Song Dynasty poet Huang Tingjian
"Ten Songs of the Second Rhyme Gaozi Mian":
Snow is dripping from the eaves, and spring is returning from the fine grass.
I think of the late Ming and early Qing dynasty literary scholar Lü Liuliang's "Shu Huai":
The cold ice cannot stop flowing water, and the dead wood will also meet the spring.
I think of the Qing Dynasty poet Zhang Weiping's "New Thunder":
Creation is wordless but sentient, and springs every time it is cold.
Thousands of reds and purples were arranged, only waiting for the first sound of new thunder.
It turns out that the cold pole of winter is actually the prelude to spring.
It turns out that when the cold ends, it is the day of spring.
Under the desert winter snow, what is hidden is the budding spring feeling.
In the lonely and dead ground, buried are the seeds of new life.
Heaven and earth incarnate all things,
It is such a life and death, endless.
Just like life, it will not always be bitter, it will not always be boiling.
When the bitterness comes to an end, sweetness comes.
When the time comes, the fruit is harvested.
Embrace warmth
The "Time-Granting Tongkao Tianshi" quotes the "Three Rites and Righteous Sects" to record:
The big cold is the middle, and the upper form is the small cold, so it is called big...
The reverse pole of the cold is called the great cold.
Around the time of the great cold, it is often the coldest season of the year.
At this time, it was just after the third nine, and at the beginning of the fourth and nineteenth,
Strong winds, low temperatures, snow does not melt on the ground,
Many parts of the mainland have shown a scene of ice and snow, cold and freezing.
On the coldest day of the year,
I always think of a song by Zhang Guorong,
The Cantonese version is called "The Coldest Day",
Chinese version is called "Heating".
"Even though the world is crueler than we think
I will not cover my lonely eyes
Just because I want to see your naivety
We hug and warm
We can survive by snuggling
Even in the icy and snowy world
Loss of identity
Even in the middle of a vast sea of people
It's going to sink."
He sang,
On the coldest day,
We're going to keep warm to each other, we're going to snuggle up to each other,
We're going to go through the mountains, through the sea,
Through the cold winter, hug each other.
The great cold ushers in the new year
As the last festival of the year,
Dahan always shoulders the heavy responsibility of welcoming the New Year.
There is a folk saying:
After the great cold, it was another year
Small cold, big cold, slaughter pigs for the New Year
Listening to it, it reveals a joyful atmosphere and warm popularity
and mundane and proper pyrotechnics
Therefore, the custom of the great cold season,
It is also often related to the preparation of the New Year
On this day, it is popular to eat food made from glutinous rice
The Great Cold sometimes coincides with the Laba Festival,
Then it is time to drink lapa porridge without hesitation,
A bowl of porridge with rice, beans, dates, lotuses, peanuts, goji berries,
Chestnuts, nuts, cinnamon balls, raisins, walnut kernels, etc.,
Boil into the flavor,
Drink porridge,
Drinking is also a long and deep affection in the world.
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Dust removal, window pasting, steaming, marriage, marketing, stepping on the age, etc.,
It is also an indispensable tradition
Cleaned the room everywhere,
Clean up the hair of the body,
Paste the old window with the new window flower,
Respectfully present pastries, dumplings, and steamed buns to the table,
In these days of no taboos, for the sake of children or to marry or marry,
Sprinkle sesame stalks on the road for children to stomp on,
A good omen for "stepping on the age".
I love this sense of ritual that has been passed down for millennia.
I like this kind of one-on-one-look, careful solemnity.
Like a reminder to us:
The ups and downs of the old years have been swept away;
The New Year begins today.
The sentence of wind and frost and snow is not endless,
As in the past, no matter how unfortunate it has been,
In the days, it is always full of the beauty of expectation.
Winter is coming to an end, and the spring breeze is coming,
New life is conceived in the depths of the earth,
New hopes sprout in people's hearts.
I wish you, on this coldest day,
There are relatives to accompany, lovers to keep together, and confidants to carry.
I wish you, the road ahead is smooth,
Everywhere is a good scenery with clear air, favorable winds and smooth scenery.
【Copyright Notice】This article is originally published by Shicishijie, author: Ye Han.