Today, we usher in the fourth solar term of winter , the winter solstice. The "Seventy-two Waiting Solutions to the Moon Order" has clouds: "Winter solstice, mid-November." The ultimate hidden qi, so far and extreme. ”
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. After the winter solstice, the direct sun's point gradually moves northward, and the northern hemisphere gradually becomes longer during the day and shorter at night. As the saying goes: "Eat the winter solstice noodles, a long line a day." ”
The winter solstice also means that the coldest "number nine" of the year is coming. The ancients believed that from the winter solstice onwards, every nine days counted as a "nine", counted to nine "nine", a total of eighty-one days later, spring suddenly arrived.
Deep thoughts Hold the knee lamp in front of the shadow to accompany you
Many literati and inkers often lament the passage of time on the winter solstice and miss their relatives, friends and families. Bai Juyi wrote in the poem "Thinking of home on the night of the winter solstice in Handan": "On the winter solstice in Handan Yili, the shadow in front of the knee lamp is accompanied. If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about distant pedestrians. "The language of the whole poem is simple and plain, but the conception is exquisite and unique. The scene imagined by the author when he was homesick was how his family missed themselves and expressed their homesickness to the fullest.
Chen Zhongzhi "Jiang Xue". From the People's Network Calligraphy and Painting Channel "People's Art Museum"
Du Fu also had similar thoughts. He said in the poem "Winter Solstice": "Every year to the day as a guest, suddenly poor and sad to kill people." Jiang Shang described me as an old man, and the customs of the heavens were self-related. After the cane quinoa snow came to Dan Valley, Ming Yu came to scatter Zi Chen. The heart was broken at this time without an inch, and the road fan saw Sanqin wherever he was. The author has been a guest for a long time every year, so it is difficult for "road fans" to return, and his miss for his homeland is overflowing with words.
On the day of the winter solstice, Du Mu was thinking about his brother from afar. "Winter Solstice Day Meets Beijing Envoy Hair Sending Brother" has a cloud: "Yuanxin first went with a double carp, and he was meeting a yangsheng in his hometown." His Holiness will not be relieved of his sorrows for his homeland, and only his brothers will be able to remember him. The hotel is cold at night, and the twilight river is cold. The bamboo door wind is still sad, suspected to be the sound of snow on the pine window. The word "doubt" in the last sentence links what he has seen and heard with his brother's current situation--the wind passes through the bamboo door, and he thinks that it is the sound of the snow hitting the window of his brother's residence.
Thoughts are heavy and sad, and some poets try to relieve the bitterness in their hearts through poetry. Du Fu mentioned above wrote a poem "To the Queen": "The winter solstice is long at the beginning of the day, far away in Jiannan Si Luoyang." What does the green robe and white horse mean, the Golden Valley Copper Camel is not hometown. The plum blossoms want to bloom unconsciously, and the calyxes look at each other forever. Sorrow is based on poetry, and poetry turns into desolation. "The author saw the plum blossom with buds and missed the di calyx (that is, brother), which led to the poem being written and he chanted it himself, but he felt even more desolate and lonely.
The sun is getting longer And the sun is rising and the sun is rising
After the winter solstice, the day will gradually become longer, so the ancients also believed that the winter solstice was an auspicious day. Zhu Shuzhen once said in "Winter Solstice": "Huang Zhong should be urged by good winds, and yin and yang should rise to Shu qi back." The shadow of the sunflower moved to the sun, and the plum blossoms bloomed first in the cold. Eight gods watch the day and age, six pipes flying leaf moving fine ash. There are already willows on the shore, and Jagged wants to bring spring. The arrival of the winter solstice delights the author – from today onwards, as the sun grows, spring is just around the corner.
Mei Yaochen is also a positive and optimistic person. On the day of the winter solstice, although he saw the lush grass and trees gradually withering away, he thought that the grass and trees had withered, and as long as spring came, they could be lush again. The rise and fall of all things in the world follow the laws of nature. Therefore, he wrote in "Winter Solstice Sentiments": "Weeping and thinking of kindness, feeling uneven. Since the death of the ancient Jiuquan, he has been born with the new Yang. Destiny for different plants and trees, he will envy the cuteness. Man is a man who lives forever, and who decays and prospers again and again. "In fact, people are the same, there will be ups and downs, there will be falls, and there will be rises, so why should we be sad and resentful because of this?
Jia Bingwu "Mei". From the People's Network Calligraphy and Painting Channel "People's Art Museum"
"Cold valley spring, smoked leaf gas, jade tube blowing valley." After the new Yang, he occupied the new year, Ji Yun Qingmu. Hugh wrapped up the mood, but added a poetry axis to the festival sequence. Smiling and strong faces, style and things are not foolish, and they are not vulgar. Fan Chengda said in the Shangdian of "Manjiang Hong: Winter Solstice" that the sky is clear and it is time to write some new poems. Wu Wenying wrote in the "Xijiang Moon And Noon Winter Solstice": "The hat presses half the brim towards the snow, and the mirror opens a thousand spring xia." Small curtain sell wine to see plum blossoms. Dreaming of Lin Kui mountain. "It's cold, but the unstoppable warm current is already filling your cheeks. A sentence "Dreaming of lin kui mountain" expressed his desire to step on the snow to find plums in the lonely mountains and find spring in the cold.
Dumpling dumplings Gourmet food is different from wind
"The winter solstice is as big as the year", the ancient people regarded the winter solstice as a major festival, busy for a year, everyone began to rest and recuperate from this day, so the most important custom is still related to eating.
The most well-known is that "the north eats dumplings, and the south eats tangyuan." Henan people eat dumplings on the winter solstice, also known as "pinching frozen ears". According to legend, when Zhang Zhongjing returned to Nanyang, when the snow was falling, he saw that the ears of some villagers were frozen, so he asked his disciples to set up a medical shed, cooked them in a pot with mutton, peppers and some cold-repellent herbs, fished them out and chopped them, wrapped them in dough to look like their ears, and cooked them in a pot and then gave them to the people. After taking the food, the ears of the villagers were healed. Later, every winter solstice, people imitated eating, forming the custom of eating dumplings, along with the saying that "do not eat dumplings and lose their ears".
In Taizhou, Zhejiang, the circle is the highlight of the winter solstice, and "circle" means "reunion" and "consummation". The round is made of glutinous rice flour, first knead the glutinous rice flour and warm water into a dough, then pick it into a vinegar dish-sized round, cook it and put it in the bean flour to roll and mix, because the dialect of this process is called "beating", so it is named "round". The bean yellow powder is fried with soybeans and ground into powder and then mixed with brown sugar, the taste is sweet and rich, with the delicate glutinous softness of the glutinous rice balls, which makes people's appetite increase.
In addition to dumplings and tangyuan, the winter solstice cuisine can be described as a thousand different winds. In Nanjing, on the winter solstice, you have to eat scallions and roasted tofu. Changzhou people eat hot tofu and say, "If you want to be rich, eat a piece of hot tofu overnight on the winter solstice." "On the winter solstice in Suzhou, relatives and friends should send a gift box to send a food similar to a spring plate; the Jinhua people set up wine dishes on the winter solstice to celebrate with the whole family; hangzhou people cook red bean rice, steam new rice cakes, and put the fish heads and tails left over from the winter solstice in the rice bowl for one night, and then take it out to eat the next day, called "Anle Dish".