Enjoy the snow scene, and eat it at midnight.
During the heavy snow season, people all over the country are more likely to enjoy the snow scene in the ice and snow. There is a passage in Volume 3 of Zhou Mi's "Old Stories of Wulin" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which describes the situation of the royal family in Hangzhou building snowmen and snow-capped mountains on a snowy day: enjoying the snow in the forbidden area, and enjoying the snow in the back garden, decorated with golden bells and colorful wisps, and making snowflakes, snow lanterns, snow-capped mountains and other events, and filling them with golden pots for enjoyment.
After the snow in Chu Qing, the mountains and rivers on the earth are like a magnificent building, overlooking from afar, which is very interesting. In the Song Dynasty, Meng Yuan-shen's Record of Dream in Tokyo recorded the twelfth lunar month: Although there is no festival order in this month, a luxurious house will have a feast in case of snow, sculpting snow lions and installing snow lanterns to celebrate the old days. Children can make snowmen and have snowball fights with their parents or partners in the courtyard to enjoy the fun of the world of ice and snow.
Heavy snow is short in the day and long in the night, so in ancient times, various handicraft workshops and family handicrafts started night work one after another, commonly known as night work. Handmade textile industry, embroidery industry and dyehouse have to have a night meal in the middle of the night, so there is a night cooking supper. In order to meet this demand, various food stalls have also opened night markets, which did not end until the fifth watch, and the business was very prosperous.
Ice play flies, and Qianlong also likes it.
The land is closed by light snow, and the river is closed by heavy snow. When it comes to the solar term of heavy snow, the water in the river is frozen, and people can enjoy skating and playing. Of course, you can also enjoy the scenery of river closure on the shore.
Skating is one of the winter games, which was called ice play in ancient times. It's cold in the north, and the rivers are frozen solid, so skating is the most popular. Men and women wear skates and pedal on the ice, and their movements are as light as flying, and those with superb skills can make all kinds of tricks. In some places, water is pumped and poured into icebergs, which are three or four feet high and crystal clear and smooth. People wear belts and push their shoes, standing down from the top of the mountain and winning by reaching the ground without falling down. This game is called sliding tart.
Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi in the Qing Dynasty often watched ice shows in Yilantang, Beihai in winter. Emperor Qianlong has works related to ice play, such as Poems of Ice Play in Imperial Taiye Pool and Ode to Ice Play in Imperial Palace.
After buying the pig's head, put it on with salt, add pepper, star anise, essence and so on, and when the pig's head is salted, the neighbors invariably hang it under their eaves. The painting has become a grimace city.