An idiom indicating cracked skin due to cold, dry weather

Selected idioms describing cold weather:

1. Drops of water turn into ice

Definition: When water drops, it turns into ice. Describing the weather as very cold.

Source: Qian Yi's "New Book of the South" of the Song Dynasty: "It is cold in the winter, and the dripping water turns into ice."

2. The weather is cold and the ground is cracked

Interpretation: crack; crack Kaitianhandibi: Describes the weather being so cold that it freezes the ground.

3. Biting cold wind

Explanation: Biting cold wind means cold weather. The cold wind seems to blow into people's skin and reach the bones, causing bursts of stinging pain. . Often used to describe severe cold weather.

Source: Dai Fufu's poem "Drinking": "Common clothes do not change into brocade palace robes, and the bone-chilling cold air is proud."

4. The bone-piercing coldness

Interpretation: bone-piercing cold: the cold air penetrates the bones, describing the weather as being very cold. Example: "When the dawn had not yet arrived, I felt a chill to my bones, so I hurried back to the dormitory, picked up some clothes and put them on."

5. The cold wind was biting

Interpretation: Lie: cold. The cold wind is biting, describing the biting cold wind, very cold ②Describing a serious, awe-inspiring look: as cold as frost | awe-inspiring and upright | majestic.

Broken glue and fallen fingers

6. Wind knife and frost sword

Interpretation: The cold wind is like a knife, and the severe frost is like a sword. Describes a cold climate that stings the skin. It also refers to a harsh environment.

Source: Lin Daiyu's "Flower Burial Speech" in Chapter 17 of "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty: "Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind, the frost, the sword force each other."

7. Snow Abuse Feng Tao

Definition: abuse, cruelty; Taoism, greed and cruelty. It's windy again and it's snowing again. Describes a very cold weather.

Source: Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty, "A Foreign Language in Commemoration of Zhang Yuan of Henan Province": "The years are bad and the cold is fierce, and the snow is cruel and the wind is delicious."

8. Snow cellar and ice sky

< p>Definition: cellar, a hole in the ground for storing things. There was ice and snow everywhere. Describes cold weather and also refers to severe cold areas.

Source: "History of the Song Dynasty·Zhu Bian's Biography", "Sighing that the horse's horns are not yet born, the soul is lost in the snow cellar; climbing the dragon's beard but unable to catch it, tears shed in the ice sky."

9. The cold is pressing

Interpretation: It means very cold or eerie.

Source: Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Chronicles of the Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" Chapter 21: "The cold is pressing, Mao The bones were horrified, the ground was blown wildly, and the people and horses were all frightened."

10. Broken rubber and broken fingers

Explanation: The weather is extremely cold.

Source: Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, "Praise for Grinding Naked Nails": "If you break the glue and drop your finger, the Naked Naked Nails will not be cold; if the gold sparkles from the stone, the Naked Nails will not be hot." Song Dynasty's Zhou Mi, "The Wild Words of Qidong·Exposure to the Sun" : ""The Inscription at the Beginning of Winter" says: 'If you break off the rubber and drop your fingers, you will dream of carrying it on your back.'"

11. The weather is cold and the ground is freezing

Interpretation: Describes the extremely cold weather.

Source: Chapter 65 of "Water Margin" by Shi Naian of the Ming Dynasty: "It is freezing cold today, and it is difficult for the army and horses to stay for a long time, so they have to go back to the mountain."

12. Cold wind invades the skin

Explanation: To describe the cold weather

Example: A cold front passes through, ~, people try not to go out, resulting in a slow business in entertainment venues.