The sky is cold, the inkstone is hard, and the fingers cannot be bent and stretched.
Song Lian. "Sending Dongyang Horses to Life".
Interpretation: The winter is very cold, the ink in the inkstone is frozen, the fingers are frozen and cannot be bent and straightened, and they do not relax to copy the book.
Song Lian was a famous literary master in the Ming Dynasty, and was once praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, as "the head of the founding scholars".
He loved to read since he was a child, but because his family was poor and couldn't afford to buy books, he borrowed them from those book collectors, copied them by hand, and returned them on time.
These few sentences depict the scene of him copying books in the cold in winter, and his mental perseverance has to be admired.
It's cold to draw a needle without a hand, and it's like a pair of scissors.
Li bai. "Midnight Wu Song, Winter Song".
Interpretation: The slender hand is too cold to even draw a needle, let alone use the cold scissors to cut clothes.
This poem is written about a scene of a winter night, the woman misses her husband at the border pass, but the post envoy to the border pass will leave early tomorrow morning, so she can only brave the wind and snow and the cold to sew cotton clothes overnight for the post envoy to take with her.
Because the time was too short and the weather was too cold, she couldn't be as handy as usual, so she complained while sewing, hoping that the messenger would go soon, and that the messenger would leave later.
It vividly portrays the ambivalence of a thinking woman.
The pillow has been cold, and the window is bright again.
Bai Juyi. "Night Snow".
Interpretation: I was really surprised by the cold tonight, the quilt pillow was cold, and when I looked up, I saw that it was clear outside the window, and the snow was falling too much.
This poem was written in the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Zonghe of Tang Dynasty, when the 45-year-old Bai Juyi was demoted to Sima Jiangzhou for writing about the assassination of the emperor.
In fact, the last two lines of this poem are even more beautiful: "I know that the snow is heavy at night, and I hear the sound of breaking bamboo." ”
In other words, you know that the snow is falling heavily in the middle of the night, because you can hear the sound of snow crushing bamboo branches from time to time.
The sea is dry and icy, and the gloomy clouds are bleak and condensed.
Cen Shen. "Bai Xue Ge Sends the Military Judge Back to Beijing".
Interpretation: The boundless desert is covered with thick ice, and the sky is full of bleak and gloomy clouds.
Cen Shen is a famous poet of Biansai, and the cold of his pen is naturally full of desolation outside the Sai.
We can imagine how cold the soldiers stationed at the border must have been, in the sparsely populated outside the fortress, coupled with the thick ice and snow.
It's no wonder that the women in Li Bai's "Winter Song" have to complain while rushing to make cotton clothes.
It should be cold at night, and the plum blossoms can't sleep.
Huang Sheng. "Nanxiangzi Winter Night".
Interpretation: The night is too cold, so that the plum blossoms are also troubled and can't sleep.
Compared to the previous ones, these two sentences are more interesting. First of all, we know that the plum blossom itself is blooming in the cold winter wax moon, it is not afraid of wind and snow, noble and unyielding.
But the poet said that the weather was too cold, so cold that the plum blossoms also had troubles, and they couldn't sleep, and instantly personified the plum blossoms, which was vivid and interesting.
In fact, no matter how cold the weather is, it is not the plum blossoms that can't sleep, but the poet himself.
The cold water of the river does not flow, and the fish chews the shadow of plum blossoms.
Shi Jing'an's "Fishing Snow Map of the Cold River".
Interpretation: The weather is too cold, the water on the river surface has frozen and no longer flows, and the fish under the water surface are hidden in the reflection of plum blossoms, as if they are chewing plum blossoms.
Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear.
Liu Zongyuan. "Jiang Xue".
Interpretation: All the birds on the mountains have disappeared, and there is no trace of people on all roads.
When it comes to complaining about the cold weather, I think it's hard for anyone to beat Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue".
Only the first two sentences portray the cold loneliness of winter.
What kind of weather will make the birds disappear and no one on the road?
It must be freezing cold!
Illustrator: Super Fog.