At dawn, when I opened the curtains, I saw a snow-white patch, it had snowed last night. Although the snow is not very thick, it is enough to surprise me. Zhu Yimin's prose poem "Homesick Snow" says that "it snows, snowflakes all over the sky, flying, flying into my memory, and filling my dreams." When it snows, it's a good time to feel homesick. My hometown is in a small village southwest of Pingdu, where I spent countless snowy winters. Whenever the cold wind hits, I always think of that familiar land and the snow-white world covered in silver.
The snow in my hometown is picturesque and has a unique charm. On a snowy morning, the smoke from the chimneys of every house in the village is reflected in the falling snowflakes, and the smoke rises and the snowflakes flutter. I remember one winter vacation, the snow began to fall in the morning, and the snowflakes were densely turned, as if they were about to tear off a screen from the sky, and they fell like goose feathers.
When I was a child, in winter, there were no heating tools, and on snowy days, almost the family sat around the kang and chatted. Outside the house, the snow was falling, and inside the house, I stood in front of the window and enjoyed another scenery from the window, the "Ice Window Flower". At that time, the hometowns were all bungalows, with wooden single-glazed windows, the convection of cold air outside and hot air inside the house, coupled with the help of cold wind, every household could enjoy the "ice window flowers".
"Ice Window Flower" is pasted between the square inches of a piece of glass, which is a beautiful scenery, a beautiful masterpiece of nature, full of poetry and picturesqueness. They are on the glass, either clear or hazy, without a little impurity, and they are so beautiful that they are cold and intoxicating. As far as the patterns are concerned, they are ever-changing, and some are like thick plants, with staggered branches, intersecting or parallel to each other; Some patterns resemble crystal clear peacock feathers, neatly stretched out; Some are like the waves of the sea, arranged layer by layer, like waves erupting from the head of the tide; Some are like a kind of algae in the water, growing vigorously; Some are panoramas of the beautiful scenery of mountains, rivers, rivers and seas. Whether it is a close-up or a panoramic pattern, the beauty is incomparably beautiful, and I feel the tenderness of spring in winter.
"Life is short, only a flash in the pan from dawn to sunrise, although instantaneous, it is the most beautiful bloom, when the sun rises, it quickly melts. "Ice Window Flower" is an unrepeatable cold beauty, it has a myriad of appearances, and it is difficult for any great painter to paint such beauty. "Ice Window Flower" is a work of art blooming on the glass, on each piece of transparent glass, the breath of people and the breath of winter are combined, it outlines a natural painting, and silently blooms on the window lattice in winter, giving people endless imagination. Regrettably, this strange scenery is no longer hard to find, and various new plastic steel windows have long replaced the wooden glass windows, keeping the cold wind out of the windows and making the "ice window flowers" no longer bloom. Nowadays, people rarely have the opportunity to see the wonders of nature in action.
Time takes away a lot of things, including those cold but warm mornings. Fortunately, the flowers that bloomed on the lattices of my childhood are still deeply engraved in my mind, although they have faded away. (*Qilu Evening News).