"Association of Ice and Snow" Gui Wenya

In the early morning, I opened the curtains and saw the new white snow again. Was it done last night? Did it come this morning? Or do both have the same effect? Since you can’t explain clearly, let’s just take it as today’s “credit”! The first snowfall is on January 13th, the second snowfall is on January 15th, and the snow on January 17th is the "third". Today, the ground is a little wet in the afternoon (the temperature has increased), but the sky is still hazy. Is God still preparing for the next snowflake? The weather forecast seems to conclude as well. In fact, here in our area, it is rare for it to snow three times a year or freeze for three consecutive days, and this scene of five consecutive days of ice and snow is even more rare. Therefore, after recently writing two posts, "Warmth in the Cold" and "The World of Ice and Snow," I had to let my words touch the words "ice" and "snow" again.

I have lived in Jiangnan for more than thirty years, but I am not a pure Jiangnan person because I was born in Beidahuang and grew up there until my first year in high school. So, I have enough knowledge about ice and snow. In Jiangnan, it is impossible to ride a sled (sledge), wear leggings, encounter "big smoke bubbles", see the frozen riverbed, have cold hands and feet (meaning numbness and stiffness), and appreciate the ever-changing It is impossible to see ice flowers digging through glaciers to catch fish, it is impossible to frost your hat and eyebrows with just a few breaths, it is impossible for every household to install double-glazed glass, hang cotton curtains and door curtains... I have done all these things I have experienced it countless times. My experience in material life also left a very deep impression on me: as soon as autumn comes, I have to buy a lot of vegetables (at that time, all materials are extremely scarce. For ordinary people, the so-called "large amount" It’s nothing more than one or two sacks), and during the long winter, they lived on cabbage, radishes, potatoes, and cabbages. Even the pickles and sauerkraut they pickled in jars and vats were nothing more than these varieties. There are three main ways to store vegetables for the winter. One is to store them outside (in the open air or in a public corridor) in the natural "icehouse". However, frozen vegetables are not delicious; the other is to store them in a natural "icehouse". In outdoor ice cellars, a relatively tight cover is added to the top. This method has a better effect on preserving the quality of vegetables, but it is not very convenient when picking up vegetables. Third, many people who live in bungalows have dug warm cellars at home. , however, the indoor temperature in Beidahuang is generally kept above 20 degrees, which can easily cause cabbage to become moldy and potatoes to sprout. In short, no matter which method is adopted, there are pros and cons for storing vegetables for the winter. Therefore, for a few months, the people of Beidahuang were looking forward to the coming of spring. Finally, when the ice and snow gradually melted, and then a hint of green gradually appeared, it was natural for people to express joy. Yes, if you wait for a while, fresh vegetables will break through the soil. However, during the fourteen or five years I lived in Beidahuang, I also had some regrets about my knowledge: I had never seen skiing, I had never seen an ice row opening a river, and I had never seen an artificially carved ice lantern.

In fact, there are also several cold days in Jiangnan, but the duration is much shorter. In Jiangnan, I also used ice cream on my face for skin care, put on ice skates to skate on real ice (in an indoor skating rink), ate popsicles and candied haws, made snowmen and had snowball fights, and saw snowflakes and hail. , Bingdi'er, Bingliuzi... As for eating ice cream (ice cream), iced watermelon and even roller skating, they are also "vegetarian" in Jiangnan.

In fact, snow varies across the country. My colleague LCY told me that that year he and a few friends went to Harbin and wanted to have a snowball fight when they saw the snow. However, he felt strange: Why was the snow loose? It was almost impossible to squeeze it into a ball. "It's so popular." I think it must have something to do with the dryness. Moreover, whether it is dry or not also seriously affects the amount of snowfall. I spent my undergraduate studies in Xi'an, which is in the northwest of China. However, it is not surprising that there are no snowflakes all year round. For example, since the beginning of winter this year, it only snowed once there yesterday.

At the end of this post, I want to pile up some words or vocabulary about "ice" and "snow". I think everyone who sees it will have their own associations: adding insult to injury, providing help in the snow, ice clearing and jade clean, ice disappearing and disintegrating. , to clear up the past grudges, and to freeze three feet is not a day's cold.