<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > introduction:</h1>
Heavy snow flew, the river was frozen, the wind was cold, and the small cold arrived as scheduled. Although Xiao Han has a "small" in his name, the power of cold is the strongest. Cold people have feelings, busy Mondays do not forget to be considerate of themselves, care for others, I hope you spend a warm little cold!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > small cold, not small cold</h1>
Today is January 6th, and we have ushered in the twenty-third of the twenty-four solar terms, Xiao Han. Judging from the Gregorian calendar, Xiao Han is the first solar term of the year. At this time, the sun is located at 285 degrees of ecliptic longitude, after which parts of the country enter the coldest period of the year.
"Explanation of the Seventy-two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order": "On the December Festival, the cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the clouds are gone." The Almanac also says: "Dou zhi peng, for Xiao Han." When the weather is getting colder, it has not yet been cold, so it is 'small cold'. ”
However, Xiao Han's coldness is often better than that of The Great Han, and the "three nine four nine ice walking" in the number nine songs also happens to be xiao han festivals. In the middle of winter, the number nine is cold, and there is also a saying in the saying "small cold and big cold, frozen into a clump".
Literally, people will think that the big cold is better than the small cold, but in the meteorological records, the small cold is more cold than the big cold, which can be said to be the coldest of the twenty-four solar terms of the year, so there is also the saying that "the small cold is better than the big cold".
Why is the temperature lower in the small cold than in the big cold? On the last solar solstice of the little cold, the ground gets the least amount of sun heat, but there is still some heat in the deep soil that can be dissipated upwards, so the winter solstice is not the coldest time of the year.
In the cold, the heat in the deep soil is dissipated to the lowest point, although the day is slightly longer, and the sun's light and heat are also slightly increased, but in fact this is the most subsistence period, so it becomes the coldest season of the year.
There is a nameless phrase in the "All Song Ci": "In the cold season, it is the same as the clouds and twilight, and the strong wind is fierce." "It is to write the cold of the little cold.
Since the small cold is colder, why add a big cold after the small cold, instead of first the big cold and then the small cold? Traditional Chinese culture pays attention to "things must be reversed", and it quickly warms up after the great cold, so people regard the great cold season as the extreme of the cold, placed after the small cold.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > little cold world</h1>
In the past, Chinese looked at everything from an agricultural point of view. Although the land is not cultivated when it is cold and cold, the climate at this time indicates the harvest of the coming year, and there is a saying that "the small cold and the cold do not snow, and the small summer and the summer field crack." ”
Today, many people in the city only look forward to snow scenery, but for farmers, they hope for snow and hope for the harvest.
For example, "small cold is not cold, Qingming quagmire" "Small cold and warm, Li chun snow", if the small cold is not cold, it snows in li spring and rains in Qingming.
"Little cold, stung warm." If the cold is cold enough, it is called "the weather is right", and winter should be snowing; then when it is time to sting, the sky should be revived, and the bugs will wake up lively.
Now we don't seem to have the common sense of farming, especially the children in the city, when it comes to the cold season, they are wrapped like a small rice dumpling, and there is no outdoor activity.
Is this really good? Sometimes I look forward to a heavy snow in the winter, hoping that the winter will have the appearance of winter, and the phenology of each season will come as promised, which is called "the day never lives up to people's hearts".
The "Explanation of the Seventy-Two Waiting For the Moon Order" for Xiao Han's three waits is as follows: "One waits for the wild goose North Township, the second waits for the magpie to start nesting, and the third waits for the pheasant to start the pheasant (gòu)." ”
The yang qi has moved, and the geese have begun to migrate northward, but not to the far north of our country, but only to the hottest place in the south. The magpies felt the yang at this time and began to build their nests, and the pheasants began to chirp. "Pheasant" means pheasant, and "pheasant" means pheasant call. The Book of Poetry, Xiao Ya Xiao Ben, has it: "The pheasant of the pheasant still seeks its female." ”
Cold is yin, small cold is yin, and yin is yang. The ancients believed that after the winter solstice, the yang qi began to sprout. In the small cold season, the yang qi is slightly higher than the "one yang sheng" at the winter solstice, to the extent of "two yang". "The cold tree in the daytime, the cold fog in the wild color", this cold qi is actually the yang qi rising, forcing the yin qi to do.
The Tang Dynasty Yuan Shu's "Yong 24 Qi Poems and Xiao Han December Festival" describes the scene of the Xiao Han season: "Xiao Han even da Lu, happy magpies build a new nest." Pick up food and look for river bends, and wrap purple around the treetops. Frost eagles near the north head, pheasants hidden in the grass. No wonder it is strictly condensed, spring and winter are turned over by the first month. ”
What we usually call "Huang zhong da Lü" is the first two rhythms in the ancient Chinese twelve laws, "Huang Zhong" corresponds to November, and "Da Lu" corresponds to December, so the poem says "Xiao Han Lian Da Lu". The last few sentences are exactly what we call the little cold three weather.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a little cold to withstand the cold, cherish the spring breeze</h1>
The small cold festival coincides with the severe cold of March 9, and many folk customs are related to the cold.
"Paint Nine" is one of them. Counting nine, calligraphy depicts red, which can not only find a way to cool off, but also a kind of pastime and health care method in winter.
In the apse of the Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City, there is a picture hanging on it, which reads "Guancheng Chunman", and the following nine palace grids are written from right to left with nine double hook hollow characters: "Weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring wind", each word is nine strokes, which is the "Nine Nine Cold Removal Map".
"Guancheng" is an alias of a brush, which means that the pen is full of spring. Every year before the winter solstice festival hanging indoors, starting from the first day of the first nine, filling in the outline day by day, one stroke per day, every time a word is filled out, it is one nine, and the sentence is completed and nine nine eighty-one days will be over. In addition to the text, the "Nine-Nine Cold Removal Chart" also has copper money shapes, plum blossom shapes, gourd shapes and so on.
During the Tang Dynasty, during the cold season, they asked each other to give gifts. The emperor would give his courtiers lipstick and facial medicine. Du Fu youshi said: "The lipid noodle medicine follows the grace, and the green pipe silver poppies under the nine xiao." "What the hell is lipid medicine?" To put it bluntly, this lipstick is the current lip balm, and the face medicine is the face oil.
It's like now before the child goes to school, the mother chases after the back and asks: Do you have lip balm in your pocket? Did you take the hand cream? Is the face thick enough? Don't let the wind blow. Times have changed, the craftsmanship of daily necessities has changed, and love has not changed.
There are many poems in the small cold season, and the famous one is this "Cold Night" by Du Xiaoshan of the Song Dynasty: "Cold night guests come to tea as wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling and red." Usually the same window before the month, only plum blossoms are different. ”
Cold night came friends, the family is not rich and noble, drink tea as a bar; the stove sits on the water, when boiling, everyone's body and mind are warm; look out, the outside is also the usual moonlight, but the moonlight sprinkled through the plum blossoms seems to be timeless and meaningful at this moment.
This is not the business of the rich and noble, this is just the fun of the literati. No matter what we eat or wear, when it comes to the coldest season, it is most important to nourish our hearts, harvest Our gods, and make ourselves warm and calm.
"Snow closed the door and read well", this was also a pleasure for everyone in the past, although at this time everyone was busy at work, but there was a little time, calm down to read the poetry books of that time, thinking about the etiquette at that time was also an elegant thing.
Keep your body and mind warm during the cold season, and wish everyone a healthy and happy cold season.