Xiao Shu's white hair is not full of ups and downs, and the old-age stove actually sleeps. Which solar term is described?

These two sentences describe the Spring Festival.

"Xiao Shu's white hair is endless ups and downs, and the old-age stove actually sleeps." From:

Wu Jia New Year's Day

Clear hole

Xiao Shu's white hair is not full of ups and downs, and the old-age stove actually sleeps.

Cut the candle and dry the midnight snack wine, and spend all the spring money.

Listen to the childlike innocence of burning firecrackers and see the change of peach blossom characters.

Add a plum blossom to the drum horn to celebrate the New Year in Lian Xiao.

Translation:

With sparse white hair on his head, he can't sleep around the stove with his family on New Year's Eve. People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been passed down to this day.

(Cut the candle-if the candle is lit for a long time, the wick will become longer and split. You can't see clearly without cutting it. In ancient times, there was a kind of scissors specially used to cut candles. The front was long and it was not easy to get hot. )

The candle burns bit by bit, which means that time goes by bit. The author also drinks wine slowly, as if someone is urging him to drink the wine this night. He will give his money to the younger generation at home to buy lucky money.

(Spring money, according to the "Reclusive Record": "When the Yuan Dynasty was changed, women's jewelry was worn with gold and silver as small money, which was called spring money." It is an ornament similar to money used in ancient folk customs. )

Listening to the sound of firecrackers, it seems that one's childlike innocence is still there, and some people are old and some are young.

The drums and horns around (mostly ancient poems, only drums and horns! It's just that people beat gongs and drums during the Chinese New Year, and plum blossoms are also competing to open. Until the fifth watch, people laughed and paid New Year greetings to each other!

Extended data

New Year's Day in Wu Jia describes the lively scene of New Year's Eve and expresses the author's happy mood after leaving the officialdom.

Kong was sixty-six years old when he wrote the song "New Year's Day in Wu Jia". He lived in his hometown Qufu. The poem "New Year's Day in China and Japan" is divided into two paragraphs. The first four sentences are about New Year's Eve, watching the New Year around the stove and drinking midnight snacks.

The third sentence is transition, lending and giving. Buying lucky money means that the old year has passed and the new year is coming. The last four sentences are transferred to New Year's Day. Set off firecrackers, change peaches, listen to music and celebrate the New Year. Between the lines, Kong danced with sincere childlike innocence. The whole poem New Year's Day in Jiawu reflects his quiet and happy mood after leaving the officialdom.