Poems about the Great Cold

Yuan Zhen's poem "Twenty-four Qi in December Cold" in the Middle Tang Dynasty.

"Wax wine from the bottle, golden furnace beast charcoal temperature. A cold should be close to the fire, so don't open the door if you have nothing to do. Winter and spring alternate, and the stars and the moon remain the same. The Ming Dynasty changed the new law, and Liu Mei stayed in Yangchun. " ?

The poems of 24 solar terms written by Yuan Zhen, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, were widely circulated in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. They were a set of scientific solar terms and climate poems at that time, which were used to guide people's lives and work at that time and still have vitality today. Because the climate changes little.

This is how he guides people's lives in the great cold solar terms poems.

Remember to keep warm with wine in the cold solar terms. Ancient wine was not very strong. It is brewed with grains and seasonal herbs for health care in all seasons. This is a traditional low-alcohol beverage, which is essential at home. In the Tang Dynasty, when cotton and other high-quality warm-keeping materials were not popular, it was the common sense of the government and the people to keep out the cold by drinking high-calorie drinks. At the beginning, let's drink more in the cold season.

Remember to build a charcoal fire at home. Although gold stoves and animal charcoal are aristocratic articles, in fact, they have been decorated here for New Year's festivals to set off a new and rich New Year atmosphere. You remember Du Fu's writing about selling charcoal. At that time, the families in Luoyang, Chang 'an were still dominated by charcoal, and there were special villagers burning charcoal to supply the city.

Great cold solar terms, the most suitable for around the stove, nothing, freezing in the cold, go out less.

It's snowy and cold weather here, which is easy to cause temperance and death. As the saying goes, freeze to death or frostbite. This is the coming of spring. People must take care of themselves and don't fall down before the coming of spring.

Great cold is a special period in which winter and spring alternate. It is the time when the stars flow in the sky, the years change and the years pass. So everyone should be very cautious.

It is precisely because it is a special moment to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so you will see plum blossoms waiting to bloom and green willows, which are welcoming spring with everyone.

There is indoctrination here, simply asking you how to spend these fifteen days, from material to spiritual, emphasizing and emphasizing that loving the people like children has a lot of bitterness. Nothing to squat at home, have a good drink and warm up to welcome the new year.

However, not everyone can talk peacefully around the stove at night. From ancient times to the present, many people will rush about in winter, even if it is a severe cold season, they must strive for survival at the end of the year. This is the normal state of life.

Excerpted from Su Shi's "Great Cold Stepping on Dongpo to Give Nest III" in the Northern Song Dynasty

"Spring rain is like dark dust, and spring breeze blows people down. There are several houses in Dongpo. Who are the neighbors in the nest? An empty bed gathers defeat, and a broken stove gathers salary. Relatively speaking, I am sad to know that I am poor. Try not to complain. I'm a citizen. Look at flowers and willows and enjoy endless spring. ?

For example, Su Shi in Song Dynasty. Su Shi was called Su Dongpo because after he was demoted to Huangzhou at the age of 43, his money and grain ran out and there was a drought that year. In order to survive, he can only lead his family to reclaim land like a farmer. That barren land, just on the outskirts of Huangzhou, has a slope, so it is called Dongpo. Su Shi's tenacious survival here gave birth to the simplicity and optimism of farmers.

Cold solar terms, although cold, are simply spring rains for farmers at this time, nourishing the soil and bringing a bumper harvest in the coming year. Su Shi climbed Dongpo in the wind and rain, walked from the thatched cottage to the pastoral area, and the wind and rain forced him to return to the thatched cottage from Dongpo.

When I came back in the rain, I saw the third nest standing under the eaves next door. Say hello and come over for a drink. Wosan came over with a smile.

In this cold solar term, there are broken quilts piled on the bed at home. Su Shi tidied them up by hand to make them look better, and then added firewood to the stove. The neighbor's nest didn't feel strange, didn't say it was cold, and didn't laugh at Su Shi's family for nothing. On the contrary, it is natural for everyone to live like this.

Su Shi took out the wine at home, and they drank around the stove and gossiped about Sang Ma. High probability refers to what is planted in the ground, expecting a bumper harvest. There is also the simplicity and comfort of farmers in each other's words. Su Shi was deeply touched.

Because of these simple farmers and the endless land waiting for the spring rain outside the window, he also gave birth to an optimism.

It is the same for everyone to live by the weather. As long as we work hard, we are all loved by God. What is there to worry about?

After drinking wine, take a walk while the wine is hot or go to the reclaimed Dongpo, look at the plum blossoms and willows at this time, look at the newly sprouted vegetable seedlings in the field, and enjoy the endless spring together in this cold.

This is the simplicity of farmers. On Su Shi's Dongpo, the wheat is green and all kinds of vegetables are sprouting. The newly turned land is bathed in the early spring rain, waiting for the rain to clear up, and the mulberry forest and jujube forest are further away. This is the land full of vitality before the early spring when plum blossom and willow sprout.

It is here that Su Shi achieved many famous works, which is called "Breaking Immortals" in history.