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What is the original text of Xiao Hong's "Fire Burning Clouds"?

After dinner, Huo Shaoyun came up. The rays of sunlight made the children's faces turn red, the big white dog turned red, the red rooster turned gold, and the black hen turned rosewood. The old man feeding the pigs stood at the foot of the wall, smiling as he watched his two little white pigs turn into little golden pigs. He was just about to say: "You have also changed..." A man enjoying the shade came next to him and said to him: "You must live a long life, you always have a golden beard."

The clouds in the sky burned from the west to the east, and were red, as if the sky was on fire.

The fire clouds in this place change a lot. Sometimes they are red, sometimes they are golden, sometimes they are half purple and half yellow, and sometimes they are half gray and half lily. Grape gray, pear yellow, eggplant purple, these colors are found in the sky, and there are also colors that I can’t describe or have seen before.

After a while, a horse appeared in the sky, with its head facing south and its tail facing west. The horse was kneeling, as if it was waiting for someone to ride on its back before it stood up. After two or three seconds, the horse grew bigger. The horse's legs were stretched out, its neck was longer, and its tail was missing. The viewer is looking for the horse's tail, and the horse becomes blurred.

Suddenly another big dog came. The dog was very fierce. It was running in front, and there seemed to be several puppies following behind. As they ran, the little dog disappeared somewhere, and the big dog disappeared too.

Then another big lion came, which was exactly the same as the big stone lion in front of the temple. It was also as big and squatting in the same way, squatting very powerfully and calmly. But everything changed in the blink of an eye. I wanted to see the big lion again, but I couldn't see it anymore.

For a moment, in a daze, the sky looked like this and that, but in fact they looked like nothing and nothing could be seen clearly. You must lower your head, rub your eyes, and calm down for a while before reading again. But the sky does not wait for those children who like it. After a while, the fire cloud went down.

Extended information:

1. Formation mechanism

When the sun has just come out or is about to set, the clouds in the sky are often red, like fire. Same. This kind of red clouds are called morning glow and sunset glow, and are vividly called "fire clouds".

So, the sun is a mixture of seven colors of light: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. Among these types of light, red light has the greatest ability to penetrate the air layer, followed by orange, yellow, and green light, and cyan, blue, and violet light are the worst. When the weather is sunny, there are few raindrops hanging in the air, and almost all red, orange, yellow, and green light passes through.

Only cyan, blue, and purple light is blocked, and these three kinds of light are blocked. Among them, blue light reflects the most, so the entire sky is "dyed" blue. In the early morning or evening when there are clouds, the air layer that the sunlight passes through is thicker than at noon. The yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple light "walk" in the air does not take long. Exhausted, only red and orange light can peek out through the air layer, "dying" the sky red, forming a fire cloud.

2. Impact

Fire clouds often appear in summer, especially around sunset after thunderstorms, in the western part of the sky. The color of Huo Shao Cloud is usually bright red. The appearance of Huo Shao Cloud indicates that a period of warm weather, abundant rainfall, and luxuriant biological growth is coming.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Huoshaoyun (Excerpt from Xiao Hong's "The Story of Hulan River")