At 4:40 a.m. on January 20th, the great cold festival was greeted
The Great Cold Festival: Cold Against the Pole
Author 丨 Song Yingjie
From "The Forbidden City Knows the Seasons: Twenty-Four Solar Terms • Seventy-Two Phenology"
What is cold? Hieroglyphs, cold characters, and the top of the treasure cover represent a room. The bottom two points of water represent the ice outside the house. The middle part represents a person who crawls into the grass at night and curls up to sleep. Therefore, according to self-effacing, his home is called "Cold House". Poor families are known as "cold doors".
The so-called "poor family", poverty and cold are associated with each other. In people's eyes, the difference between rich and poor can be measured by the temperature of the home in winter. Cold can best reflect the poverty and simplicity of home.
So what is the Great Cold? The ancients said, "The reverse pole of the cold is called the great cold."
Literally, the Great Cold should be the coldest time of the year. However, if measured purely by temperature, compared with the small cold and the big cold, it is slightly better than the small cold. But after all, the two of them are almost the same, and people still treat the small cold and the big cold as the middle of winter.
The ancients called the Waxing Moon the Great Forbidden Moon, because the Waxing Moon worshipped the gods and expelled demons, so people were cautious in their words and deeds, and everything was taboo. But from the perspective of the cold, perhaps the biggest taboo, in the vernacular, is to forbid hiss. It's a month when grace can't beat the temperature.
The Complete Book of Agricultural Policy says: "December is called the Great Forbidden Month." Suddenly, one day is slightly warmer, that is, the cold weather. The great cold must guard the fire and do not go out without anything. "At this time, cold is the norm, and a little warmth is a precursor to great cold." People still hope that the temperature in the middle of winter will not be too abrupt and bumpy, as the proverb says: "Cold does not die, heat does not die, cold and hot toss to death." ”
In the Treatise on Balance, it is said: "In the height of summer, when the wind stands, the moon of midwinter sits toward the sun." Its summer desires to be cold, and its winter desires to be warm. ”
Winter is lovely, summer is awesome. Being able to go out in the sun in winter is actually a more low-carbon and healthier way to heat. I remember when I was a child, the old man in the countryside sat on a small bench with his hands in his hands, basking in the sun under the wall, and the big yellow dog was lying on the ground while basking in the sun. As long as there is no wind, it does not feel like it is the middle of winter.
In the past, people were afraid of the cold, but also worried that it was not cold when it should be cold, "the cold is not cold, and the people and horses are uneasy." Maintaining a high degree of rationality for cold and summer is not based on the comfort of the body to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the climate. What happens if it's not cold enough during the cold season?
☆ Large temperature, risshun cold.
☆ Warm and cold for a few days, rain for a few days.
☆ The big cold does not freeze, and the sting does not open.
☆ The big cold is not cold, the spring equinox is not warm.
☆ Great cold without cold, clear quagmire.
These "old sayings" make people endure the cold of mid-winter without complaint. I am afraid that the weather is not cold, and the next year may encounter cold summer and cold spring, and the year is hopeless.
The "Fourth Year of Zuo Chuan Zhaogong" says: "There is no yang in winter, no yin in summer, no miserable wind in spring, and no bitter rain in autumn." "The ideal climate is: winter should not be too warm, don't be warm winter; summer should not be too cool, don't be cool summer; spring can have wind, but preferably not cold wind; autumn can have rain, but it is best not to drag mud and water continuous rain.
In the middle of winter, people do not covet the sun and warm, but focus on the climate and agricultural affairs, "the cold is white, the next year the bowl is white", only the cold season is cold and white, and there can be white rice in the bowl in the next year.
After all, the cold of the great cold, after all, is when people can't survive the winter, whether it is the dry cold of the so-called "physical attack" in the north or the wet cold of the "magic attack" in the south, it is more testing people's tolerance.
Borrowing the words written by the poet Xu Zhimo in the cold season of 1923, I would like to send it to you: "Patience, resistance to the frost whip and snow fist and wind sword of the three winters, straight to chunyang to conquer the elimination of killing and silence and fierceness, straight to chunyang to open the prison of life ..."
The big cold waits for the chicken to start milking. In the cold season, the chickens at home began to hatch the chicks. The Great Cold Ii Migratory Bird is fierce. In the cold season of the ice and snow, predators such as eagle falcons often suffer from hunger, so they hover in the air, and once they find their prey, they swoop down and pounce, and people feel that the fierceness of the birds at this time is different from usual. The great cold three seasons of water are strong. The freezing at the beginning of winter is only at the shallowest surface, as if it were frozen in the skin; the freezing at the time of the great cold is in the deepest part, as if it were frozen into the abdomen. There is a solid ice gas in the abdomen to chill itself, and "Mizusawa belly" is a more underlying cold.
Song Yingjie was interested in explaining the three seasons of the great cold
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Big Chill
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The old snow has not yet subsided, and the new snow has been crowded.
Frozen silver bed in front of the steps, ice stalactites at the eaves.
The sun is shining, and the wind is raging.
The population has its own tongue, and the words cannot be spit out.
Bitter groan
Don Mengjiao
The sky is cold and green, and the north wind is called dry mulberry.
Thick ice without cracks, short days with cold light.
Knocking stones must not be fired, and the strong yin is seizing the sun.
What the bitter tune said, frozen into this chapter.
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The wine is self-contained, and the golden furnace beast is warm.
The cold should be close to the fire, and nothing should be opened.
Winter and spring alternate, stars and moons survive?
The Ming Dynasty changed the new law, and MeiLiu waited for YangChun.
And Zhongmeng sat at night
Song Wentong
The birds flew in amazement and broke the goose number, relying on a few quiet dust alone.
The wind whistles in the north of the house, and the snow on the south mountain is high.
Sleep less to know the effectiveness of tea, and the cold must be sent to the wine to compete.
Yan Bing had closed the lamp and the flowers were old, and they were still embracing the robes of the group of books.
Great Cold | Folklore
Great cold la eight, all things "porridge" complete
There are many important festivals around the time of the Great Cold and Lichun, and the Lapa Festival is one of them. People use rice such as japonica rice, rice or millet, plus peanuts, chestnuts, dates and other ingredients, to boil a pot of sweet porridge. "After the eighth year, it is a year." This year's big cold happens to meet the Eighth Festival of La, the big cold greets the New Year, let a bowl of rolling hot porridge drive away the cold.
In addition to the old decorations and new ones, prepare the New Year goods
There is a folk saying that "after the cold, it is another year". At this time, people also have to rush for the New Year - catch the New Year's market, prepare new year goods, buy new clothes, cured bacon, remove old decorations and new decorations, and prepare for the New Year!
Strengthen your body and fight the epidemic with one heart
"Big cold, big cold, windproof and cold." At this time, the cold wave is frequent, it is a high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza, and attention should be paid to: anti-neck cold, wear a scarf and wear a standing collar; anti-nasal cold, cold water in the morning to rub the nose; anti-lung cold, drink hot porridge to disperse the cold; prevent waist cold, rub your hands on the waist; prevent foot cold, soak your feet in hot water. With a healthy body, welcome the arrival of the New Year!
One period at a time, watching the spring
"Spring rain shocks the spring valley days, summer is full of mango and summer and summer are connected, autumn dew and autumn frost falls, winter snow and snow are small and cold in winter." The great cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms, and after the great cold, there will be a new year's cycle of solar terms... One period and one moment, you and I will make a twenty-four-year agreement, okay?
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