Five ancient poems of freezing rain: the eaves flow is not dripping plum blossom jelly, a kind of loneliness is not idle
It was raining in winter, and the temperature was around freezing. Windy. This rain is so dashing and lingering, very lingering choked by the spring rain, thinking that this is spring coming, as if a married girl, a stubble of tears. Suddenly, attracted by the trees outside, the bare maple branches, at some point covered with translucent ice crystal ice hanging, this rainy weather, more like cherry blossoms in the spring rain. Looking further away, the trees are like this, saying that the jade tree Qionghua is not real, it is the cold beauty and softness of the light ice and glass, which makes people surprised. Because the rain has not yet turned into snow, but the trees are covered with ice, a kind of beauty in the rain.
This is the meteorological "freezing rain", which refers to the special freezing that can be formed by the rain at or below zero degrees Celsius, which adheres to the surface of objects at low altitudes.
First, there is wind, so that the rain in the air does not have time to complete solidification, and second, the lack of a small substance at low altitude that allows the rain to condense into ice and snow below zero, which shows that the air in this area has been very clean after the baptism of rain, snow and wind. In other words, it is possible that the rain in winter will be below freezing and will not turn into snow.
This kind of rain makes people feel even more clammy and cold. The ancients called this kind of rain, also known as "freezing rain", which means extremely cold rain.
"楩楠枯峥嵘,乡党皆莫记。
I don't know how many hundred years old, miserable and no business.
The upper branch is in the sky, and the lower root is thick.
Giant encirclement thunder, 10,000 insects and ants.
The freezing rain falls and the glue flows, and the wind wins the good air. Don · Excerpt from Du Fu's "Dry Nan".
Du Fu was in the mountains of Sichuan and saw a dead nan tree. Standing in the countryside, it retains its rugged branches.
The people there don't know where the tree came from, but it looks like it's hundreds of years old.
The dead branches are towering into the sky and cover a wide area. The huge tree fence has been struck by thunder, and there are countless burrows in the trunks of the trees, which have become the home of ants and insects.
The freezing rain on that cold day fell, forming ice cubes on the bark like glue, and the wind took away the breath of life that belonged to the tree.
Then the reason why this poem was chosen is because the "freezing rain" here is similar to the freezing rain in meteorology, because the rain falls on the branches of the nan tree, forming an enveloping ice cube.
"The frozen rain cages the mountains and the woods and ice, and the slanting sun side mirrors the distant peaks.
The makeup group is covered with cloud barriers, and the treasure bun beads spend tens of thousands of layers. "Song · Hu Yin "Early Winter is Sunny"
Meteorologically, "freezing rain" generally occurs in late winter and early spring, because of the cold, there is enough moisture.
So in the mountains, the climate is diverse, and Hu Yin of the Song Dynasty encountered freezing rain in the process of stepping on the mountain in early winter.
The cold rain bathed the mountains, and the trees froze in the rain, and at dusk, the sun came out and shone obliquely on the distant mountains, forming a kind of visual wonder.
Because the nearby mountains and beautiful trees are all ice branches, and the sun shines on the mountains of ice flowers, the clouds in the sky are inlaid with gold edges, a kind of solemn and beautiful beauty like a fairyland, as if it is the fairy concubine in the sky in the sun, the treasure bun bead flowers, beautiful and brilliant.
"Snow is the death of rain, and rain is the life of snow.
For example, the tide and the water are out of the same way.
Turbulent or turbulent tides, freezing rain or occasional snow.
At this time, the master focuses on trying to separate.
Waiting is a lifetime, and there is life and death.
Therefore, the ancient sages were deeply afraid of the countryside. Southern Song Dynasty · Ao Taosun "Wine Effect in the Snow"
This poem is quite interesting, of course, it cannot be interpreted from the perspective of modern science, but in between metaphors, it illustrates the relationship between rain and snow.
Snow is the death of rain because snow is not moving, whereas rain is more vivid than snow.
Rain is the new birth of snow. It's like the relationship between the waves and the water.
There are always various waves and undercurrents moving forward in the water, and there is always some freezing rain that falls with the snow.
Freezing rain is flowing and can nourish life, while snow is cold and silent, originally they are all water, but freezing rain is the main life, and the snow is the main death. There is a difference between them.
Therefore, the ancient sages were most in awe of nature and loved the countryside the most, because there was rain and snow, and even freezing rain and snow fell together, and there was the metabolism of all things.
What interests me is what he writes about the rain that falls at the same time as the snow in winter. In fact, most of it may also be the "freezing rain" in modern meteorology, but he gives this flowing rain a sense of vitality that can nourish all things.
"The cold flowers in the dry valley are snowy, and the eaves are lonely and easy to ice in the freezing rain.
But he smiled and looked down last night, and burned the remnants as a Zen lamp. Late Ming and early Qing Dynasty · Excerpt from Cheng Ying's "You Yunwo Gift Intermediary Master".
This poem is written about a monk's seclusion in the mountains and forests.
The mountains are wooded and tend to be colder in winters than in the plains.
The house at the bottom of the valley is cool in the summer and wet and cold in the winter.
For example, the old Tsubaki ancient tree is the first to usher in the snow in the mountains and forests, and for example, the cold rain at night in winter can easily form ice on the eaves.
Then this poem actually writes about the state of freezing rain.
The rain in the mountain forest, when it meets the colder eaves, forms ice cubes and icicles, which do not need the blessing of snow, which is a typical mountain freezing rain.
“晨起开门雪满山，雪晴云淡日光寒。
The eaves flow is not dripping plum jelly, a kind of solitary is not idle. "Qing · Zheng Xie, "Snow Queen in the Mountains"
Freezing rain will also occur during snowy periods, and not all rain will turn into snowflakes.
For example, Zheng Banqiao was in the mountains, encountered a night of heavy snowfall, and the opening of the door was full of snow, and the sky was not sunny after the snow, but the sun was bleak, and there were cold clouds in the sky, indicating that the water vapor here was moist, or there was continuous rain and snow.
So what did he see? That is, there were icicles hanging on the eaves, and the plum blossoms were sealed in the ice cubes, and the beauty of the translucent ice cubes of the plum blossoms was completely arrogant.
So let's talk about why there are icicles on the eaves, which is the formation of ice crystals and ice crystal growths caused by the rain on the eaves at night. Then last night it was sleet, freezing rain, and flying snow, which will form this landscape of eaves ice and plum blossoms.
And it is this kind of beauty in the extreme cold that illuminates Zheng Banqiao's cold life experience and plum blossom-like heart.
The natural landscape formed by freezing rain is very special and beautiful, such as ice cubes full of trees, ice hanging ice branches. However, we must be vigilant and prevent disasters caused by freezing rain.
Freezing rain makes the road ice, wet cold makes the human body's immunity reduced, and a long period of freezing will harm the vitality of trees, crops and flowers, so pay attention to safety and various disaster prevention and warmth.
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