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It's cold and there are chopsticks in the hall. Juzi unloaded in the spring has been put in the carriage. Now, I have moved it out, scrubbed it clean and replaced it with new pink paper and snow-white paper. When you lie in bed, you look tight and comfortable, as if there is an extra layer of protection in your life. The family sat together, with lovely lights.

The bed was removed and covered with straw. It was a sunny day to wash and dry books. The curtains of Xiabu are hung in the yard, and summer is far away. Straw is packed in a cloth cover, which is rough and as big as a bed. Covered with straw, it is warm and fragrant, which makes people feel happy.

But it's still cold. Winter in the south is worse than that in the north, and there is no fire at home. In the evening, I took off my cotton-padded jacket, got into the cold bed, got up early and put on my cold cotton-padded jacket and trousers. The weather is really cold.

After the winter vacation, you can sleep in. The cotton-padded clothes have been dried on the copper stove, and it is not very difficult to get up. Especially cotton shoes are so hot that they are really comfortable to wear.

Few people there have iron stoves that burn coal. General heating, copper stove, foot stove, hand stove. The footstool is made of brass and has a perforated cover. What is burned inside is coarse bran. Filled with rough chaff, the unfinished Chai Lu fire (where we burned reeds, it was called "Chai Lu") shoveled a few red ashes, and then covered it. Coarse chaff led, take a smoke, and soon, the smoke is gone, so you can cover the furnace cover. Coarse chaff can be burned slowly for a long time. Old ladies can't live without it. Every old lady has a foot stove at her feet. The coarse chaff in the footstool is too strong, the air is not enough and the firepower is getting weaker and weaker. So we should dig twice along the fireplace with a poker to loosen the rough chaff and the fire will flourish. The foot stove warms people. The feet are not cold, and the whole body is not cold. The burnt bran smells good, too. Imitating Japanese haiku, you can write a poem: "In winter, the foot stove burns chaff." Hand stoves are smaller than foot stoves, mostly made of white copper, and exquisite ones are made of silver. The furnace cover is not a round hole, but mostly a hollow pine, bamboo and plum blossom pattern. The hand stove is very small, and in the middle is a charcoal stick (coal is ground into fine powder, and a little honey is added to make a cake), which is led by a paper coal head. A piece of charcoal can be used for one day.

There are black vegetables, frozen tofu and pickles soup in winter. Black vegetables lie flat on the ground, and people in the south of the Yangtze River call them "bitter vegetables". This dish tastes a little bitter. My grandmother dug a small piece of land in the back garden and planted black vegetables. After first frost, the leaves are purple, and the taste is bitter and sweet. Black vegetables cooked with "crab oil" taste hard to compare. "Crab oil" is made by cooking big crabs, removing meat and adding lard. Put it in a bowl in the sea and solidify into crab jelly, which can be eaten for a winter and will not be bad for a long time. After tofu is frozen, I don't know why it is honeycomb. Melt, cut into small pieces and cook with fresh meat, bacon, beef, dried rice or kimchi. Put pepper and green garlic in the frozen tofu. There used to be no Chinese cabbage in the north, only "green vegetables". Chinese cabbage is shipped from Shandong, euphemistically called "soybean sprouts", which is very expensive. "Green vegetables" are as big as rape and two feet high. Every family eats it all year round. Kimchi is pickled with green vegetables. It snows on cloudy days and drinks pickles soup.

Winter games: kicking shuttlecock, catching children and playing carefree. "Xiaoyao" means that on a square piece of white paper, two spiral paths are printed on the wood block, and the Eight Immortals, horses, rabbits, carp and shrimps are printed between the two paths. There are two of everything, arranged randomly, without order. When playing, each side takes copper coins or chess as dice and rolls dice. If the dice is five o'clock, count from "horse" and go forward five steps. If it is a rabbit, you can find another rabbit from the inner ring and bet the dice on it. The next round begins, counting from the rabbits in the inner circle. If it is six o'clock, take six steps. Maybe it's Tie Guai Li, so find another Tie Guai Li and put your money on Tie Guai Li. If you count to any map in the inner circle, look for it in the outer circle and come back. Enough points, the son can enter the finish line (the finish line is a palace-style house, I don't know whether it is the moon palace or the Longmen), even if he wins. After the second entry, there are "two" and "three". Easy Travel can be played by two people or three or four people. I don't know why it's called "Xiaoyao".

Get up early, the window paper is bright, it's snowing! Go to the backyard to fold wintersweet and Tianzhu fruit on snowy days. Bright yellow wintersweet, bright red Tianzhu fruit and white snowflake are full of business. Chimonanthus praecox blooms very long, and Tianzhu fruit is particularly durable. If put in a bottle, it can be kept for half a month.

Flour powder. A neighbor keeps a pheasant. This bicycle is not used by many people at ordinary times. In winter, it is only borrowed by 20 families nearby 10. The house is very small, except for a raft, only some sieves and reeds. Stepping on pheasants is fun. When you step on it with your foot, it squeaks and twists, and the pheasant's mouth sticks up and falls into the cockroach nest with a bang. When the rice flour is ready, you can steam the cake, make "Nian Shao Bing" (glutinous rice flour as a pedicle, wrapped in bean paste and sugar, and boiled in a pot), and rub jiaozi (that is, jiaozi). Fenzi, the Spring Festival is coming.

Qiu Lin hai yin de taste

When autumn comes, I naturally think of that street-Xidan archway.

No matter which direction you come from, when you arrive at Xidan archway, in autumn and dusk, the first thing you smell is the smell of the street. The smell of fried chestnuts permeates the bustling crowd, so hurry to see the familiar place. Lan Hao's buddy is frying chestnuts in front of the door. Helan sells west point, and fried chestnuts are not famous, but because they are on the street corner, they bear the brunt and can't help but buy them nearby.

Come to a catty! Hot chestnuts have just been fried. Wait a minute, pour them into the basket and sift out the sand wrapped in sugar juice. When I was weighing the bag, another fragrance floated over, just at several fruit stalls in the corner in front of me, ah! Jujube, grape, begonia, persimmon, pear, pomegranate ... are all in the market. Most of the fragrance comes from pears and grapes. Grapes in Sha Ying are yellow and transparent. When they split in two, the water stopped flowing, so they got the nickname "rock candy bag". Pak Lei in Beijing is thin and tender, with no dregs at all. Duck width is as soft as tofu. Jujube is the most common fruit, and Langjiayuan is the most famous producing area, so there is no such thing as Langjiayuan. Tiger eye, gourd jujube and jujube have their own shapes and tastes. "Persimmon with honey juice" will wait until winter, when green and crispy persimmons are on the market in autumn, and the crispy persimmons will be sweeter when piled high. Haitang was half red, and pomegranate smiled and showed a row of pink teeth. These are the fruits of autumn.

Holding a bag of hot chestnuts and some fruits, I walked from Xidan to Xuanwumen, thinking of going home and lying on the Eight Immortals table in front of the window. In the twilight, with a little light, the family sat around happily, peeling these delicious foods, and my pace could not help but accelerate. Behind him came the clang of electric cars, and the No.5 bus was approaching the end of Xuanwu Gate. After passing the Wool Hutong, the smell of barbecue wafted in the air again. It is a low and narrow barbecue room in An 'er Hutong.

There is a Muslim sign in front of the door. They are one of many famous Muslim restaurants in Beiping. Since autumn, Beijing has been dominated by Muslim restaurants. A short and fat young man is cutting a box of beef and mutton. His brother, the oldest, greeted his seat at the door. His two sons, who are healthy and bright-eyed, fully demonstrate the spirit of exporting and teaching young people, and are helping and learning the technology of picking and cutting meat. The smoke on the baking tray darkens the originally unknown lamp, but in this low, smoky hut, there is another warm and cordial feeling, which makes people want to go in and stand by the baking tray and lift two big chopsticks.

The fifth is fairness, so it gives people a particularly cordial feeling. It used to be just a steamed bun shop selling some mutton buns to nearby residents and passing workers. Gradually, barbecue became famous, but it did not change the attitude towards customers. For example, they only have two cooks, but they can only surround one or twenty people. But at dusk, groups of guests came, and there was no place to sit, so they couldn't eat for a while. Old five will tell the guest that after 20 or 30 minutes, the guest will go around Xidan archway and come back. There is no register, but they remember exactly the order of coming and coming. There is no hurry, it is impossible to jump the queue, everything depends on the arrangement of the exam. He doesn't make any difference, because tourists take cars or pull rickshaws. This is his fairness and kindness.

It is the skill and art of the fifth person to cut meat in his hand and settle accounts in his mouth. A bowl of meat, a plate of onion and a cucumber, he sang the money one by one, and the price was fair. There, although the house is small, it is very comfortable to eat. Old five doesn't laugh much, but he gives you a simple feeling and won't feel like eating too much.

In autumn, the old capital of the north, the fragrance of beef, mutton and fried chestnuts can best represent the seasonal change!

Feng Zikai in spring

What a lovely semester spring is! People have praised it since ancient times and hope it will grow in the world. Poets, especially poets, have a deep love for spring. Try to turn over the words, and you can find a spring word on almost every page. Later generations are used to hearing this kind of words, and naturally they echo with joy. Even if they don't actually know the lovely people in spring, they will feel happy when they talk about it. This half is implied by the pronunciation of the word spring.

"Spring!" Listen, how loud and sleepy this voice sounds! How neat and appropriate the shape of this word is, how symmetrical it is! It must be lovely to think of which season such a beautiful name belongs to. Just like hearing a woman named Lihua, I think she must be a beauty.

However, in fact, spring is not a pleasant time. After 36 years, I know that spring before the end of spring is very unpleasant in life.

Plum blossoms bloom with snow, saying that it is the news of missing spring. But this is completely spiritual spring. Actually, it's raining and snowing, and the north wind is fierce. What's the difference between winter and winter? The so-called people who welcome the Spring are just hiding in their own houses, shivering under the eaves and looking at the dead branches of plum blossoms!

A month later, just like now: the fright is over, and the so-called spring is half over. My friends living in the metropolis imagined the picturesque countryside at the moment, so they quickly wrote to urge me to write an essay about spring. It seems that I am jealous of them, because I am close to Chun. In fact, we who live in the countryside are not happy, but suffer from various discomforts: the thermometer rises and falls sharply between 36 and 62 degrees. In one day, it was hot and cold. You can think of ice cream in the city when it's warm. You can almost see natural ice when it is cold, and you have tasted the so-called "cold". The weather is sunny and rainy, and when I go out, dry shoes often come back sloppily.

It is true that "how many sunny days can there be in a spring"; "Listening to the spring rain in a small building all night" is actually nothing to listen to, and it is monotonous, far less than the variety of radios in your city. Spring is almost halfway over, but it doesn't give us any comfort. It only teaches us to worry about cold and warm weather every day. It is "three points in spring, two points in sorrow, one point in wind and rain!" "

The scene of spring is only practical and clear when it is cold and warm, sunny and rainy. In addition, although there are beautiful scenery in spring, they are all vague, so we should explore them carefully before we can see them vaguely. Is this the so-called "seeking spring"? Some say that "spring is in the sound of flowers", some say that "spring is in pear blossoms" and some say that "the branches of red apricots are full of spring", but this kind of scene is not easy to see in our remote countryside. Even if you see it, it is not easy for the naked eye to know. In short, the beauty brought by spring is rare and hidden; The unhappiness brought by spring is numerous and real. Poets and poets seem to admit this. Aren't spring cold, spring sleepy, spring sorrow and spring resentment all often mentioned in poems? Not only now, but also in a few months, when Tomb-Sweeping Day comes, it may not be beautiful and happy. If it rains again, pedestrians on the road will die.

It is unpleasant to know that spring is just a beautiful name in real life. In fact, the happiest time of the year begins in late spring. As far as the climate is concerned, although it gradually turns from cold to warm before late spring, it is always the time when it is cold and warm, and it is also the most difficult time to rest. In late spring, the influence of winter is completely eliminated and the temperature rises all the way. The mercury column on the thermometer rises to 100 degrees, which is the hottest season. As far as the scenery is concerned, there is no need to look for spring scenery, and there are vast green hills to comfort people. The ancients said: "Du Yu went with a spring, and countless trees came out." It turns out that the mountain will not be completely green until spring, and it will attract people's attention. I think grass and snow are the greatest phenomena in natural scenery. When the creator painted the big picture of "nature", Chunhong and Qiu Yan were only slightly stained with rouge and hatred, which was an understatement. When it comes to describing snow and grass, he did not hesitate to draw. He dipped his brush in lead powder, gamboge and flower green, and smeared it in chunks, making the house all white and the mountains all green. This seems to be the pointillism of Mi Pai's landscape painting and the "color block" of Cezanne's landscape painting. What a provocative painting style! And the grass is green, even everywhere, especially peaceful and amiable, selfless spring scenery. Flowers and trees are sometimes kept in private gardens, eating the gardener's lynching and flattering ladies and gentlemen. No matter how high or low, grass is everywhere. Everyone thinks that flowers are spring works, but in fact, spring works are not in flowers, but in grass. How many people can see these flowers? Grass grows widely on the earth's surface and is widely appreciated by the public. This kind of beauty is not available in early spring. At that time, Shan Ye was covered with withered grass, which was gaunt and looked uncomfortable. Only by the end of spring, when the hay is gone, can there really be green mountains and green waters, and the world will be new. There is nothing better than this time of year. Nature's kindness to people is also the deepest at this time.

Materialist westerners have always attached importance to this season and called it May. May is the happiest time of the year. There are all kinds of entertainment activities in the world, such as May Queen, May Pillar, May Games and so on. The word May originally meant "youth" and "prime of life". It can be seen that Westerners regard May of the year as the happiest, happiest and most beautiful period, just like youth in life. This is really worthy of the name.

However, the Japanese view is different from theirs: the Japanese call this period of time late spring, to be exact, it is to stay in spring, send it off, cherish it and hurt it, but when you are feeling, sighing and crying, you can't talk about happiness at all. The joy of orientals lies in the fact that the Spring Festival is a half-uneven green, willow and yellow, that is, sunny, rainy, warm, cold and difficult to rest. At this time, although it is uncomfortable in real life, it is the greatest spiritual enjoyment to observe the germination of willow flowers and the rejuvenation of heaven and earth. So "May" in the West is equivalent to "Spring" in the East. These two words sound good to read and look beautiful.

However, May is material and practical, while spring is spiritual and artistic. Discrimination between eastern and western cultures can also be seen here.

Gui Qiusheng.

Night fell quietly. Qiu changed into another dress. Every dress in autumn represents his mood.

Before dusk, Qiu wore a wide blue-gray robe with a faint silver light. The robe is as smooth as water lines, giving people a very comfortable feeling.

In autumn, there are many clothes, and each one looks better than the other. Among them, the gray robe he wore when he had a bad cold was not very beautiful. It was opaque watercolor, iron and tarpaulin, and Qiu wrapped himself tightly. Unfortunately, when a gust of wind blows and a sneeze comes down, those bald trees will tremble: "Brother, we don't wear enough, don't let us get infected." The thin branches sneezed at the dead leaves and said, "Ha, Qiu! Ha, Qiu! " Sound.

So Qiu tried not to get sick. He doesn't want people to think that he is sentimental and fickle. He did not forget that when Xia shook hands with him, there was an expectation in his smile: autumn, thank you for coming, and the harvest season of the earth is more abundant because of you.

Qiu smiled. His idle gossip soothes the loneliness of the west Western jackdaw in the sunset courtyard, the white-haired old man in the hospital bed and a group of kittens without hairballs to chase.

Autumn, like a filter, is quiet because of it, making all ups and downs, irritability, depression, depression, nameless sadness and uncertain despair.

Evening, autumn clothes ...