The early winter snow of 2023 has finally fallen.
The cold earth ushered in the first winter snow.
This snow is refreshing. Look at the white and flawless snowflakes, like silver petals, fluttering and falling gently. At the beginning of the heavy snow, the red sun shines, and the Qionglou jade tree reminds people of the good sentence written by the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen that "suddenly like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom".
The snow finally stopped, and the world under the deep night seemed to freeze, and all life quietly fell asleep. Villages, Pingchuan, cities, towns, forests, seashores, near and far away...... Under the reflection of the snow, it is covered in silver, and it is extraordinarily enchanting. The night after the snow was quiet, and I saw the lights of high-rise buildings and farmhouses shining.
Snow is a beautiful crystallization in nature. In the Western Han Dynasty, Han Ying's "Han Poetry Biography" pointed out: "There are more than five plants and flowers, and there are six snowflakes alone." The basic shape of a snowflake is hexagonal, but it can take on a different shape in different environments. Some are like crystal and lovely jade pieces, some are like shining silver needles, some are like branches with branches, and some are like elegant palace fans...... Among the various snowflakes, each piece is like an ingenious pattern painting, neatly arranged and beautifully shaped. It is said that some snowflake pattern collectors around the world have taken thousands of photos of the pattern, but they cannot find snowflakes of the exact same size and shape.
At this time, I saw the snowflakes fluttering and immediately fell on the windowsill; when I walked out of the house, the windows seemed to be covered with warm cotton; the windows seemed to be widened, and the glass was streaked with ice, and the light was light and quiet, which increased the feeling of comfort and freshness in the house; the morning was quiet, as if it was still in the bones. Looking at the window, we picked a place where there was no snow to cover and looked at the scenery of the fields; the houses outside the window were covered with snow; under the eaves and on the trees in the garden were covered with snow sticks; there were many snow pillars standing on the ground like stalagmites, but we could not see what was hidden inside. The big trees and small trees stretch out their white arms in all directions, pointing to the sky, and the original green wheat fields, with their strange shapes, stretch to the left and right, like jumps, as if nature has redesigned the field scenery overnight, so that the painters of the world can copy it.
Actually, not all snow is white. There was a strange "red snow" abroad. According to records, one day in 1918, near the Gulf of Greenland, a sudden strong wind blew and red snowflakes fell from the sky, and local fishermen discussed it as a bad omen. After investigation by scientists, the mystery of "strange snow" was finally revealed. It was originally caused by a storm that mixed the tiny single-celled plant red algae into the snow. In 1969, in the Irtysh River basin of East Kazakhstan of the Soviet Union, there was a "yellow snow". In West Belarus, "green snow" and "green snow" are more common. The formation of "colored snow" is mostly related to algae plants and industrial pollution.
Throughout the ages, painters and poets have often used snow as their subject matter. Fan Kuan, a great painter in the Song Dynasty, wrote "Snow Scene and Cold Forest" and "Snow and Snow Peaks", which are full of momentum and majestic and beautiful. When Xie An was appreciating the snow, he asked his nephew and niece: "What is it like?" and his nephew Xie Lang replied: "The difference between sprinkling salt and air can be compared." The niece Dao Yun replied: "If the catkins are not raised by the wind." The Tang Dynasty's Zhang Dayou Yu Xue's poem is unique: "The river is general, the well is black and holey, the yellow dog is white, and the white dog is swollen." ”
The sun finally rose over the sea in the distance, and the snow and ice in the sky had melted as the sun shone through. We hurriedly walked on the powdery dry snow, because our thoughts and feelings were more excited, and our hearts emitted a kind of heat, and the weather seemed to become as warm as a small spring in October. If we can change our lives and be more in tune with nature, we may not need to be afraid of heavy snowfall, and we will recognize nature as our nanny and friend, and she will always take care of us.
(Zhang Hancheng)