Thinking about "light snow"

Unconsciously, today is Ding You's birthday.

Think of when I returned to Ya's rest state in 2006. In the early winter, the Qingyi River is shrouded in mist in the morning, gently stroking the affectionate running water. It turns out that the watchtower along the outer river in Sizhong is made of red and gray bricks, with a round spire, which stands high in the river. It's a little cold. It attacks my neck.

I walked on the path by the river, when the river bank was still protected by pebbles. Samsung mobile phone rings and a multimedia message pops up. It turned out to be a light snow day, and the MMS prompt of China Mobile introduced the origin and meaning of light snow. A multimedia message with jumping pictures and text descriptions is very interesting. At that time, MMS was still one yuan. Very rare.

However, later I remembered the solar term' light snow'.

When I was a child, my father would post a photo of Zhang Chungeng every year. Sometimes my father bought this painting in a hurry, and more often,' Spring Officials' sent it to the door on their own initiative. Those spring officials will also sing a few words and eight sentences, say a lot of auspicious words, win a good title, and win bursts of laughter in the spring countryside. I remember that the earliest spring official was still well dressed, wearing a high hat, shaking his hands, walking on the mountain road in the country, shaking his head, probably thinking about how to rap. What about the spring ploughing map? It is red or yellow, square in size, with crooked fonts and different sizes. It has a calendar or a yellow calendar, with the Gregorian calendar as the control, and arranges the week. What else is appropriate and inappropriate? I am young and ignorant. I don't understand that. Below, a farmer in a bamboo hat is whipping spring cattle and ploughing the fields. There are many small characters next to the picture of spring cattle, which indicates a bumper harvest in the coming year. Of course, this picture is not as exquisite as our book. I still don't like it. Not pretty. Sometimes I secretly tear it off and take it off. Now I think the old people in the countryside carved it themselves. Making money is a trivial matter, only 50 cents a piece. Send spring in May, reminding that spring sowing is the business. My father naturally scolded me for taking off the spring ploughing map and other charges of "destroying agricultural production" and ruined his reference map of the yellow calendar.

In this picture of spring ploughing, there are 24 solar terms and' light snow'. But I can't remember it all, and I'm stupid. Besides, I didn't engage in farming later, completely ignoring its existence. Objectively speaking, it is only in recent years that our 24 solar terms have been rated as representative projects of intangible cultural heritage protection by the United Nations and protected by international organizations. I just found out that the beauty of this solar term exists around us. Now it's basically complete, and it's a pity to think about it.

After light snow, there is heavy snow. From winter to the sun, it is slight cold, severe cold, beginning of spring, rain, fright, vernal equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Xia, Xiaoshu, Dashu, beginning of autumn, Chushu, Bailu, Autumnal Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter and so on. I don't know if it's accurate or not. Otherwise, you will be embarrassed by Guan Chun.

My father can be said to have recited it. He said that farmers depend on the weather for their food, but they can't remember agricultural proverbs and miss farming. They will be hungry next year. A season that postpones spring will not last for ten years. What I remember most is the cold dew of the first frost and the wheat on the slope. My father told me that this is to sow early spring crops. After the vernal equinox, the weather gradually warmed up. We should look for water everywhere to cultivate land and start preparing for planting crops in Da Chun. Father also said that after the light snow, people in rural areas can slaughter Chinese New Year pigs on a large scale. That's one thing that makes children happy and comfortable. It is estimated that the city will gradually prepare new year's goods, although it is still far from the Spring Festival.

? After the light snow, our north began to really enter winter in batches. It's freezing and snowflakes are flying, which is a beautiful northern scenery. Overwintering Chinese cabbage is stored in the cellar for a long time. It's fine now, with heating, at least in the city. In the south, at least in the Sichuan Basin, it is not so cold and so green. We also have our own way to spend the winter. We don't care much about the cold after the light snow.

Twenty-four solar terms, very beautiful. In ancient times, astronomers and poets described it very beautifully. Those poems and songs will be listed by readers. But I think these 24 solar terms are really a great invention of our nation.

I remembered Xiaoxue's MMS experience, so I remembered something.

-Yingyuan Tea Man, Ding You is a snowy day.