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October 8-9
Hongyan guests
Finches into the water for clams
Ju has Huang Hua
If you don't pay attention, the solar terms will reach the cold dew.
If you want to say that autumn is high and refreshing, in Jiangnan, it is about the cold dew festival. On the days when autumn is high and refreshing, people are also refreshed, as if they have a breath of fresh air. At this time, morning and evening have been slightly cool, but during the day, it is just the right comfort, not lukewarm or lukewarm. In the dialect of my hometown, there is the word "tune Thai", and this season really harmonizes people with Thainess.
The autumn color is really thick, green is still green, but more red and yellow. Autumn's ink and color began at this time, nature seems to have been overturned by a wayward child, and the autumn colors spread endlessly.
Autumn is cold again, according to the almanac, the white dew festival is still only "condensed and white" dew, at this time, it is already "dew cold, condensed into frost", but the autumn in the south is always unhurried, and the phenology corresponding to the festival is also slower than the north, such as the white dew season, the north is already deep dew, cold dew arrives, which means that the season enters the late autumn, to the frost, the cicadas are dead, and the grass and trees are cold frost. The cold dew festival in jiangnan is still some time away from condensing into frost and snow, although in the morning and evening, the air is a little cold, but there is a lazy warmth during the day.
On the day of the cold dew, I was in Hanshan Lake. In the morning, there was white smoke and water vapor by the lake, and the mountains in the distance were not very real, and the blades of grass were hung with crystal dewdrops, shining, and there was a kind of transparency that had not been done. The blue wildflowers swayed, the ears of the reeds fluttered in the wind, and the reeds here grew really tall, thick and large, very robust. At the foot of the mountain, the villages are dotted with cooking smoke, and the wild hawthorns in front of the door are bunched in a bunch of red. When I came here in the summer, the mud house of the farmhouse was full of wild roses, pink and white, permeated with the beauty and romance of late spring, and now, full of red fruits, a joy and thickness of autumn.
A few birds were startled by our footsteps and flew deep into the woods, and for no reason, there was a chill of time passing. In the air, there is a cold smell, from the trees, from the blades of grass, from the dewdrops, this coolness, a bit like the sweetness of mint - I have potted mint, but also eaten peppermint grass paste, peach pulp, the taste of mint sweet and cool, take a deep breath, intuitively a breath of fresh air to the lungs. On the mountain, wild chrysanthemums are large and pony. At this time, the best bloom is the chrysanthemum.
When the chrysanthemums bloom, you can make chrysanthemum pillows and brew chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemum wine is made of chrysanthemums and rice, and Ge Hong recorded in the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing": "Chrysanthemums are comfortable, and the stems and leaves are picked, and the mixed rice is brewed." It is drunk from the beginning of September 9 of the following year, so it is called chrysanthemum wine. The chrysanthemum wine drunk this year is made by picking the chrysanthemums and verdant branches and leaves that have just bloomed in the autumn of the first year, washing and drying, mixing them with steamed glutinous rice and rice, sprinkling them with wine and fermenting. Chrysanthemum wine also has several good names, called yellow flower wine, falling english wine, and East Hedge wine. These wine names, so elegant, light reading, the heart will rise up fine waves, like the breeze blowing through the lake, the heart is full of softness and warmth.
Poets may not all love wine in the cup, but they like to indulge in the formal sense of wine, such as the flow of water, such as the wine of September 9. The east hedge put the wine, dark incense sleeves, shallow low singing, think about it is very beautiful. Moreover, if there is less wine in the beautiful scenery, the interest will be much weaker. Although silence can cultivate the mind, sometimes, it is also good to have some worldly noise.
Even fang Xiaoru, the scholar of Geng Jie, when it was cold and dewy, had to take off his robe, walk out of the study, come to Tiantai Mountain, drink bitterly with the mountain people, sing with pleasure, and write "Red Wine Song" with a stroke of his pen, this seven-word song, indulgent and bold, straightforward and transparent - autumn has arrived, the rice is harvested, the chrysanthemums are blooming, and the farmer brings out the red wine of Tiantai Mountain for me to drink. This red wine is darker than the color of peach blossoms and slightly lighter than the color of red indigo. The wind brought the fragrance of osmanthus and chrysanthemums, and everything enchanted me.
In addition to the mellow and fragrant red wine, there are also large pots of native chicken and crab. With the joyful mountain people, drink in large bowls, eat vegetables in large mouths, get drunk, and show a little madness. "Drunk and arrogant, singing and dancing as the sun. Go out with a smile and forget, and the big river east goes to smoke. "It's very spontaneous. In the cold dew season, it is possible to take it spontaneously.
I love autumn. Every festival in autumn is so poetic, white dew, autumn equinox, cold dew, frost. White dew and cold dew are separated by an autumn equinox, but there is no difference at all, but slowly, the weather changes from cool to cold, "white dew sunny, cold dew yin, white dew yin, cold dew sunny"; "white dew has rain, cold dew has wind", the umbilical cord of the solar terms connects them together, which is really interesting. Sometimes I feel that Bai Lu is like a girl wearing a green coat, with a shallow smile and a faint warmth between her eyebrows; and Han Lu is like a young woman, full of sweetness, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and a variety of styles.
Author: Wang Han
Editor: Xu Yang
Excerpt from "Whispers of the Earth: Twenty-Four Solar Terms of Jiangnan"