Four-word idioms describing cold weather

December, ice and snow, spring, winter, hunger and cold

1. December

Vernacular definition: refers to the cold season in December.

Dynasty: Modern Times

Author: Zhou Libo

Source: "Storm" III: "My wife shivers till dawn all night when she falls asleep in December, and she can't sleep ..."

Second, it's snowy.

Vernacular definition: It's very cold to describe the snow and ice all over the sky.

Dynasty: Qing Dynasty

Author: Jiang Shiquan

Source: "Chicken feather house" poem: "Ice and snow are as windy as tigers; Those who cry naked have no place to live. "

translation: the cold wind blows like a tiger in the ice and snow; People in thin clothes cry and can't find a place to live

Third, La Jin Chun Hui

Vernacular definition: December of the lunar calendar. The twelfth lunar month passed and spring came again.

Dynasty: Tang

Author: Sun Daoxuan

Source: "Bodhisattva Man Mei": "When the wax is exhausted, the spring comes back, and the cold flowers bloom again."

The twelfth lunar month has come again, and the flowers on the treetops are blooming again.

Fourth, the twelfth lunar month

Vernacular interpretation: the twelfth lunar month. Refers to the coldest December day in winter.

Dynasty: Han

Author: Anonymous

Source: "Other Poems (Leaves and Branches of the Same Blood)": "In the cold winter of December, it is harsh in the morning.

Translation: In December of the lunar calendar, when you get up in the morning, you have to step on the cold frost

V. Crying for hunger and coldness

Vernacular definition: Crying because of hunger and coldness, describing the extreme poverty of life

Dynasty: Tang

Author: Han Yu

Source: Learning Solution: "It's warm in winter but cold in children; When you are rich, your wife is hungry. "

In the warm winter, my son cries cold, and in the harvest year, my wife cries for hunger.