Zhou Huacheng
Why talk about snow? Children in the south are always full of magical yearning for snow - saying that it is the south, it is not so southern, if it is Guangdong or Hainan, it is generally not available to see, in the winter in my hometown Changshan, I can occasionally see the face of snow. I remember when I was a child, the snow in winter was very thick, and the ice under the eaves was hung a foot long. Of course, this was thirty years ago, and Ice Ling was almost invisible now.
Some time ago, I wrote an article, "Things on Snow Days", which mentioned that Feng Mengzhen recorded a lot of snowy weather in his "Diary of Kuaixuetang". For example, in the diary of the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar, Feng Mengzhen recorded: On November 23, Xue Ji, very cold, dripping water into frost. The next day, it was snowy, sunny, and cold. On the twenty-seventh day, the snow had not yet subsided. On the fourth day of December, it was heavy snow again, and it ended at night. On the thirteenth day, it was snow and wind again. On the fourteenth day, the snow ended in the afternoon, and I looked around at the Jade Trees of Juyao Peak. Sixteen days, snow, sunshine, cold. Seventeen days, snow, sunshine. On the twenty-first day, it was overcast and snowy, and in the afternoon there were slight snowflakes.
It was snowing so often at that time! And it's ten days and a half months. Feng Mengzhen called his church "Fast Snow Hall", and some people said that he collected Wang Xizhi's "Qing Ti in Fast Snow". Not really. When his lonely mountain house was on the beam, it was the first sunny snow, so he took the meaning of "clear when the snow is fast" and named the church "Fast Snow Hall".
In such a cold weather, how will Feng Mengzhen play? This literati who retired from the position of Nanjing Guozi supervisor of wine sacrifice in The West Lake first bought land and built a house in The Lonely Mountain for ninety gold as a foothold for his own life. Plant a few plum blossoms, a few bamboo trees, a few mulberry trees. Plant a pond of lotus flowers and enjoy the lakes and mountains on three sides. In addition, he bought a ship and spent thirty gold. The boat became Feng Mengzhen's home floating on the lake. He bought four singers, plus the original singers, to form a family class. The level of this family class is not ordinary, and the skills are outstanding, so that Feng Mengzhen often shows pride. Next, Feng Mengzhen's life was like this, he stored books on the boat, carried Ge Ji, spring flowers and autumn moon, and leisurely toured the West Lake. Boats rowed out and floated on the lake, sometimes not returning for a month.
When he wasn't going out, he would read and write at home, drink and listen to plays. On the fifth day of the first lunar month of the thirty-first year of the Wanli Calendar, it snowed heavily overnight, and the snow on the tiles in the early morning was bright, and there was heavy snow in the afternoon. On the seventh day of the first year, it was still snowing. Until the thirteenth, it is sunny, and the moon is very good at night. The boat passed by the Yue Ancestral Hall, and every three friends got on the boat, drank tea together, and said goodbye to the broken bridge. On the fourteenth day, the weather was sunny, the moon was very good, there was a slight smoke, and he took Ge Ji on the lake, and received many guests in the boat. He himself was in the boat. At this moment, on the lake outside the boat, the snow is still not stopping.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in the Xiaoice river period, and the winter for decades was extremely cold and cold, and even Guangdong also fell heavily. Now, it's the rhythm of global warming, and snow is naturally unusual. After a few shots of snow, everyone shouted in shock.
When there is snow, people also become vivid and interesting. Zhang Dai would go to the Huxin Pavilion to watch the snow, and Gao Lian would guard the West Lake at four o'clock, thinking of ways to play with the snow in the winter. It's all interesting souls, and the snow in the south has an interesting soul too. Winter without falling snow always feels a lot less interesting, especially in the mountains, how can it not fall snow. As soon as the snow falls, Beijing becomes Beiping and Xi'an becomes Chang'an. As soon as the snow fell, Hangzhou became Lin'an, and Changshan became Dingyang. As soon as the snow falls, the adult becomes a child, and you become a poet.
There is also a snow scenery in our place, which is one of the "Ancient Ten Scenic Spots", called "QiuChuan Snow". The literati of the Qing Dynasty said, "The number of miles is the city, and the broken bamboo is full of silk." Like the moon like frost or snow, a river is as white as a pitiful life. This kind of "snow scene" is not really snowing, and the river beach is full of raw materials for papermaking, a snow white, as if it is snowing. It can also be seen that this place called The Ball River was particularly developed in ancient times when the papermaking process was particularly developed.
The papermaking industry in my hometown of Changshan has an important position in the history of Chinese papermaking. Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Changshan, Yushan and Kaihua are all papermaking centers in China. There are also records in the Yongzheng Changshan County Chronicle and the Guangxu Changshan County Chronicle, for example, when it comes to this kind of paper, it is full of praise, "the size is thick and thin, the name is very large", and "only the people of Qiuchuan are good at it, and the gongjing is seventy-two to".
Erhe Jun, but if you go to the ancient town of Qiuchuan now, I am very sorry, and I can't see the grand scene of snow on the river beach at all. The ancient papermaking process has disappeared from the tunnel of time. Two years ago, I went to the neighboring county of Kaihua to interview, and found that someone there had restored the ancient papermaking process and reproduced the old "civilized paper". So someone told me that in fact, this "civilized paper" is the name of a paper, not only civilized, but also the papermaking of Changshan people in ancient times. Unfortunately, why did no Changshan people think of this problem and restore the ancient papermaking process? If that's the case, the "Ball River Snow" can recreate the pomp and circumstance, which is also very spectacular.
This kind of thing, think simple, do it is extremely difficult. If someone thinks it's funny, they shoot it with both hands, and they don't care about it, they do it. For example, after a heavy snowfall, Zhang Dai will hire someone to punch a boat and bring a teapot to the lake to enjoy the snow, and Feng Mengzhen will take the singers to the boat and float on the snowy lake all day, singing and drinking. Interesting people, or crazy people, can do things at no cost. There are not many such people; such pleasure is the exclusive property of a very small number of people--where it is forced. For example, everyone thinks that snow is a fun thing, but in such a southern winter, it has not snowed, what can you do?
——You can't imagine a heavy snow that is blowing up.
【Source: Quzhou Daily】
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