Poems about Han Xiao

Slight cold is the first solar term in traditional late winter, and it is also the penultimate solar term among the 24 solar terms in a year. The arrival of slight cold marks the arrival of traditional late winter, which is the last journey of winter. The following is a poem about Xiao Han:

In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zhen's poem "Twenty-four Poems on Qi, Slight Cold December Festival"

Han Xiaolu, Huan birds build new nests. Picking up food to find a winding path, holding purple around the treetops.

The frost eagle is near the north head, and the pheasant is hidden in the bushes. Don't blame me for being strict. I get paid in the first month of spring and summer.

The slight cold corresponds to the deepest and most serious melody of the road, indicating that it is a low season, but magpies have begun to nest, feed by the cold river, hold litter in their arms and fly back and forth every day. This is because magpies know that winter is coming, and they are busy preparing a home for the baby born in spring.

Tang Peiyi's Tour of Qujiang in Poor Winter

Snow flies north on the south slope, and grass roots win spring.

Qujiang will never be here, it will go around the cold pool alone and return alone.

The ancients divided the slight cold into three stages: "First-class Yanbei Township, second-class magpies nesting, and third-class pheasants nesting". This is an observation of the slightly cold animals in the Zhou Dynasty. The slight cold solar term covers fifteen days. In these fifteen days, although the weather is cold, you will see geese migrating from the south to the north, magpies nesting and pheasants singing.

We know that geese are migratory birds and migrate according to the seasons. In autumn, geese fly from north to south, and in spring, geese fly back from south to north. So when did the goose first come back? Not after the arrival of spring, but during the coldest slight cold solar term in winter.