The great cold has reached the spring

Birds perch on plum blossom branches in Riverside Park, Qianjiang District, Chongqing. Yang Minzhao (People's Vision)

The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms, it has a distinct personality, the appearance is cold and hard as iron, and the heart is soft as cotton. Little snow, heavy snow, little cold, big cold, the winter festival comes all the way, with poetic romance, with iron-blooded tenderness. The festival has reached the great cold, the depression of winter has reached its peak, everything is withered, and there is no trace of anger, just as Zeng Gong said in the poem: "The smoke clouds in the sea are often bleak, and the great cold pine bamboo is even more depressed", but the smoke clouds are bleak and more lined with the tenacity of the pine bamboo, in fact, at this time, the breath of spring has been growing darkly.

Great cold, as the name suggests, means that the weather is extremely cold. There is an old saying: "The great cold is the middle, and the upper form is the small cold, so it is called the big... The reverse pole of the cold is called the great cold. The great cold is between three nine and four nine, and the agricultural proverb says: "Walk on the ice of three nine four nine", which is the coldest time of the year. Nowadays, the climate is warming, and people can rarely experience the harshness of three or nine days of cold.

Winter can not be without snow, without snow will be less of the true charm of winter. I remember that when I was a child, the weather was much colder than now, and often the whole winter the earth was covered with thick snow, until the beginning of spring, the snow melted little by little. At that time, the whole village was tightly surrounded by snow, and there was a fairytale aesthetic interest, which gave children great room for imagination. Forty or fifty years ago, sometimes a snow would fall for several days, the snow closed the road, no need to go to school, my friends and I would go to the snow to play freely, have snowball fights, build snowmen. Was the snow more affectionate then? That earth-shattering formation, that lingering atmosphere of pity, that whispering and whispering, as long as there is one in this life, it will never be forgotten. If it rains all night, the morning is sunny, and you look around, "The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow." "The scenes in Mao Zedong's poems will be impressively presented, that kind of majestic beauty, that kind of arrogance and excitement, and even mu ne's mind will spring up in the heart."

Things change stars, and the flow of years is like water. A heavy snow will always evoke infinite emotions in people's hearts. For thousands of years, the literati inkers have left countless poems about snow, "Lonely Boat, Fishing alone in the snow of the Cold River", which has the purity and coldness of Liu Zongyuan's residence; "Late to the sky wants snow, can drink a cup of nothing" there is Bai Juyi's optimism and open-mindedness: Wang Guan's "In the ice and snow forest, different peach and plum mixed with fang dust" has a praise for the noble soul, and each capital is the poet's inner monologue.

In the cold season, plum blossoms quietly bloom. Looking at that cluster of vivid new red, even if the cold of the outside world freezes the body, all the beauty in the heart will be stimulated in an instant!" Spring aquatic life in the depths of solid ice". The great cold has arrived, the mountains have accumulated jade, the snow has made all things pure, and also let all things accumulate energy and give birth to new life under its cover. The same is true of life, harsh days, it is the moment when we accumulate strength and temper our will. Just like plum blossoms, after experiencing the deepest cold, it has become the most moving touch among the hundred flowers!