In Jiangnan in December of the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty' apocalypse, it snowed a lot, Zhang Dai's "Tao An Dream" recalled that "the snow was three feet deep", ten thousand mountains carried snow, the moonlight shone on the snow, and was reflected back, a snow white, even reflected in the moonlight.
It snowed so much, Zhang Dai did not build snow lions to play, nor did he set up a feast at home to enjoy the snow, but he made an appointment with a friend to climb the mountain at night, climbed to the mountain city god temple, a group of people were crowded in the mountain gate to sit, it was too cold, can only drink to drive away the cold, drank several times the usual amount of wine and did not get drunk, probably the wine was drunk into the body to take the cold.
Some people sang small songs, some people blew holes and whistles, but it was too cold, whether it was singing people or blowing people, they all trembled and made others laugh.
Leng into this, this group of people still insisted until the middle of the night three times before going back, some people did not want to walk, so they hugged each other from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, as if taking a snow bath, while Zhang Dai sat in a small sheep's head car, dragging ice back.
This year, Zhang Dai was about thirty years old, so he could still swim like this, and if he was in his nineties and encountered heavy snow, I am afraid that he could only close and not come out.
It's snowing, but the Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles are still bustling.
Ming Xie Shichen Emei Snow Map
The snow on Mount Emei was heavy, riding a donkey through the boardwalk, and the servants who were blown by the wind and snow shrank their hands and breathed for warmth.
Wen Zhengming Guanshan Snow Map Partial Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
No matter how heavy the snow was, they still had to hurry, and the river was all frozen, so they rode a donkey to cut a short path and walked directly over the ice.
This "Snow Map of Guanshan Mountain" by The Ming Dynasty Talent Wen Zhengming, which was painted for five years before and after, was inspired by the winter of the sixth year of Jiajing, when he and his disciples traveled with his disciples to Gu Sulenjia Mountain, which coincided with heavy snowfall, so they had to stay in the monk's house.
The two masters and apprentices looked at the snow outside the window, Wen Zhengming was interested in painting, but he did not rush to complete it, but after five years of additions, he finished the painting, and he did not know whether he had to wait for the winter snow to have inspiration?
Ming Dynasty opera composer Gao Lian also had the experience of staying in the temple on a snowy night, saying that once he stayed in the Zen Forest overnight, it was snowing outside, it was too cold to do it, he learned to hold the stove like the monks in the temple to warm up, and then put the potato into the furnace to simmer, peel the skin entrance, feel much more delicious than what he usually ate, unconsciously ate the potato to eat enough, so on the topic of potato, and the temple monks to discuss Buddhism, very pleased.
Ming Zhu Duan Looking for Mei Tu Partial
Snow and plum blossoms are always more compatible, Mei Susun snow is three points white, snow loses plum a piece of incense, when it snows to find plums is a literati can not miss the elegant thing.
The literati in the painting hold an umbrella in one hand and a staff in the other, and go looking for plums against the wind and snow, followed by two children, one holding a piano, one carrying a baggage, perhaps with a tea set, when ready to find plum blossoms, he will play the piano and drink tea, enjoying half a day of leisure.
The matter of stepping on the snow to find plums, the Gao Lian who ran to the temple to eat sweet potatoes just now also did it, but he did it more exaggeratedly.
In the "Eight Notes of Zunsheng", he said that in the cold winter of Shujiu, he would wear a red felt shirt, wrap a felt hat, ride a black donkey, and "step on the snow stream and mountain, and look for the Merlin Valley."
Found a number of blooming plum blossoms, they sat on the side of the ground, "floating drama drinking, intoxicated and sound", first drink a painful, drunk in the aroma of plum blossoms, do not know that they are the people in the flowers, do not know that plum blossoms are the scenery in the eyes.
Forgetting my existence, forgetting the existence of plum blossoms, things and I forget each other, but there is a bit of Zen.
Ming Zhu Bang Xuejiang sells fish charts
The snow is so heavy that you don't have to go to work? I thought it was beautiful, and I quickly got up to go fishing.
The child holds the oar, the wife guards the fish basket, the old man carries the fish to the buyer on the water pavilion, the fish is very large, hoping to sell for a good price, this is the snow fishing of the poor people.
There are also fishermen who do not fish for the sake of fish, fishing is not for fish, what is it for?
In traditional culture, "fishing" is often associated with "hermit", and in ancient poetry and paintings, "fisherman' father" is often used to represent the recluse who was born.
Both Zhuangzi and Chu Ci mention the fisherman's father, the fisherman in Zhuangzi can even teach Confucius, and the fisherman in Chu Ci is qualified to persuade Qu Yuan. After Qu Yuan did not listen to the advice, the fisherman father was not at all satisfied, but just laughed and did not answer, singing away, how dashing and arbitrary.
The fisherman takes the boat as a room and swims freely between heaven and earth; the fisherman is also a fisherman, listening to its nature, and willingly taking the bait, transcending the world.
Ming Luzhi's "Fishing Boat on the Han River" is collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Lu Zhi's "Hanjiang Fishing Boat" is obviously the latter kind of fisherman," "a lonely boat, fishing alone in the snow of the Cold River", holding a fishing rod in his hand, and only catching snow in one river.
However, some people disagreed, and the Qianlong Emperor was not accustomed to it, and the inscription poem said:
Cold fish do not bait, how to fish.
Although the ice carp is strong, there are many people who have become famous for fishing.
His Majesty the Emperor said that the snow was so cold that the fish would not come to the bait at all. I'm afraid that most people want to sell their reputation and reputation!
There are real hidden people, and there are also those who borrow from hidden and famous, whether it is true or false, seeing the wisdom of the people, and the white expanse of snow should be known.
Ming Tang Yin's "Chaimen Cover snow map" part
On snowy days, it is still the most pleasant to nestle indoors. Tang Bohu's "Chaimen Cover snow map" in a self-titled poem: "Chaimen is deeply hidden in the snow, and the stove is boiled with wine." The most is the poet's stable place, a compilation of words and a furnace of incense. ”
Even if he was outside in the wind and snow, he was refused to leave the wood gate, boiling a pot of wine, burning a pot of incense, and writing a poem, which was the poet's stable snow town.
Tang Bohu's fate was uncertain, but he was involved in the scientific expedition fraud case, and he had no chance of his career. Frustrated, he had traveled all over the country, sent love to the mountains and rivers, and must have rushed through the snow.
When the dust finally ended, he returned to build a peach blossom nunnery outside Gusu City, and Fang felt that he was still hiding at home on a snowy day to enjoy himself.
Ming Shen Zhou "Visiting Friends in the Snow" part
Tang Bohu's master, Shen Zhou, the painter who was the first of the "Four Ming Families", also hid at home on snowy days, but unexpectedly welcomed a good friend who was not afraid of wind and snow to visit. Shen Zhou inscribed a poem on the painting:
"On the wine and burned red maple, look at the mountain is still white hibiscus." After the gentleman said that He was Wang You, he searched for a thousand years of snow. On the day before the spring of the first month of the Hongzhi Reform, Mr. Rugao Wang braved the cold to cross the creek residence, and shi xue still carried the road, with a clumsy painting contempt, in order to answer Qiya Houyun. ”
The visiting Mr. Wang said that he was a descendant of the famous prince of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and today he braved the snow to visit, which could not help but remind people of the allusion of the prince's night visit to Dai.
However, when the prince arrived at the door of his friend Dai Andao, he did not enter the house, but "returned with all his pleasure, why should he see Dai", but this Mr. Wang cooked wine with Shen Zhou, looked at the snowy mountains outside the window like white hibiscus, and talked on his knees in the hut.
Although the outside world is full of snow, the inside of the house is warm and poetic, and it is no wonder that Shen Zhou wants to paint this meeting to commemorate it.
Ming Zhongli "Cold Rock Snow Map"
In the end, the snow in the Ming Dynasty was still indispensable to Zhang Dai's Huxin Pavilion to see the snow.
In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Dai lived on the edge of the West Lake in Hangzhou, and the snow fell for three days, "the sound of people and birds in the lake was absolutely extinct", not only did people not go out, but even the birds were unwilling to fly out.
At eight or nine o'clock in the evening, Zhang Dai wore a fur cotton suit, embraced the fire, and took a boat alone to the Lake Pavilion to see the snow, the trees by the lake were full of rime, and the sky and clouds, mountains, and water were all white.
From a distance, the Lake Pavilion is like a small dot on the lake, the boat is like a mustard seed, the people on the boat are like a grain of dust between heaven and earth, where to know that after arriving at the Lake Pavilion, there are already two people sitting opposite each other in the pavilion with felt, and there are boys who are scalding wine.
They were also shocked to see Zhang Dai, saying, "There are still people who come to the lake to enjoy the swim at this time!" He gly invited him to drink together, and when Zhang Dai finished drinking and bid them farewell and returned to the shore, the boatman muttered, "Don't say that Xiang Gong is stupid, and even more foolish like Xiang Gong."
The boatman said, Hey, I thought you were already stupid, but I didn't expect anyone more stupid than you.
That's because the beauty of the landscape is always in the place where no one has landed, and its magic is naturally only understood by these "idiots".
How is it? Is it snowing there too?