1. Five-character poems about winter 20
Five-character poems about winter 20 1. Five-character poems about winter
1. Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles Snow is falling.
——Mao Zedong's "Qinyuan Spring·Snow" 2. Suddenly a spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloomed. ——Cen Shen's "Song of White Snow Sending Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital" 3. The snowflakes on Yanshan Mountain were as big as mats, and they blew down Xuanyuan Terrace.
——Li Bai's "Travel to the North Wind" 4. The vast sea is hundreds of feet long, and the icy clouds are bleak and condensed thousands of miles away. ——Cen Shen's "Song of White Snow Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital" 5. The north wind blows and the white grass breaks, and the snow falls in August.
——Cen Shen's "Bai Xuege Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital" 6. I wonder if any of the trees in the garden are real plums. ——Dongfang Qiu's "Spring Snow" 7. Heaven and man would rather Xu Qiao, cut the water and make the flowers fly.
——Lu Chang's "Shocking Snow" 8. There are several plum blossoms in the corner, and Ling Han blooms alone. ——Wang Anshi's "Plum Blossoms" 9. The Yin ridge in Zhongnan is beautiful, and the snow is floating in the clouds.
——Ancestor's chant "Watching the Remaining Snow in the South" 10. A man in a lone boat fishing for snow in the cold river. ——Liu Zongyuan's "Snow on the River" 11. Thousands of miles of yellow clouds in the daytime, and the north wind blows down snow.
——Gao Shi's "Farewell to Dong Da" 12. The limelight is like a knife cutting the surface, and the horse hair is covered with snow and steaming with sweat. ——Cen Shen's "Zou Ma Chuan Xing Feng sent the troops out for the Western Expedition".
2. Twenty lines of ancient poems describing winter
1. And it’s winter this year, and the people in Kansai are still alive.
2. The autumn moon shines brightly, and the winter ridge shows the cold pines.
3. The southern neighbor is even more memorable, and the cloth has not been redeemed in winter.
4. Winter is coming to an end tonight, and the new year is brightening and the sun is getting longer.
5. The sound of the Sheng brings up the autumn wind, and the wine flies away from the winter snow.
6. When winter comes, all the flowers will die.
7. It’s the winter solstice in Handan Posthouse, with shadows in front of lanterns hugging one’s knees.
8. Who cut out thousands of piles of snow from the flat ground to create this continuous ceiling?
9. The snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain were as big as mats, blowing down Xuanyuan Terrace one after another.
10. A vine path is green, and thousands of snow-capped peaks are clear.
11.. The setting sun is shining on the sparse bamboos, and the remaining snow is scattered in the mountains.
12. I don’t know if the rain in the courtyard has fallen this morning, but I suspect that the forest flowers bloomed last night.
13. The sound of water makes you swallow the ice, and the sandy road is flat in the snow.
14. The clouds are low in the evening, and the snow is dancing in the wind.
15. The wind shakes the bamboos across the door, and the mountains are covered with snow when the door opens.
16. The stream is too deep to bear the snow, and the mountain is so frozen that the clouds cannot flow.
17. All the frozen springs are swallowed, but I feel the cold even more.
18. Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have disappeared. A man with a coir raincoat in a lone boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
19. Only then did I see the clouds covering the top of the mountain, and the snow on the rocks was like dust. Thousands of peaks, bamboo shoots, thousands of jade trees, thousands of usneas trees and thousands of clouds.
20. When the six flying flowers come into the house, sit and watch the green bamboos turn into green branches.
3. 20 idioms, 10 famous sentences, and 5 ancient poems describing winter
Snowy white: white and bright.
Often used to describe frost and snow. The pure white snow is dazzling with silver light.
Example: Snow-capped mountain peaks, when the sun shines... I probably always think that they are brilliant and beautiful to watch. (Qin Mu's "Fresh and Dried Lychees") Ice and snow describes the extremely cold climate, with the sky covered with ice and snow.
For example: In the Arctic, it is covered with ice and snow all year round. Example: "Chicken Feather Room" by Jiang Shiquan of the Qing Dynasty: "The ice and snow are as windy as a tiger, and those who cry naked have no shelter."
Example: Just stay here, where are you going in the ice and snow? (Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi") Synonymous idioms: ice sky and snow cellar, snow cellar and ice sky. Dropping water turns into ice. Dropping water quickly turns into ice. Describes a very cold weather.
For example: Winter in the north is very cold, and dripping water turns into ice. Example: It is cold in the severe winter, and dripping water turns into ice.
(Song Dynasty Qian Yi's "New Book of the South") Example: There is another difficulty. When the weather turns to ice, you must not wash your dirty clothes in the water holes, and you also hate the fact that they are not clean. Add an expletive. ("Eternal Words to Awaken the World") Also written as: Drops of water make it freeze.
Wind and snow came at the same time. Example: Even though it is a windy and snowy season, our sight can still see very far away.
(Fan Changjiang's "Travel to the Fortress·Travel Record·Bailing Temple Battle·3") Liu Chu is flying Liu Chu: snowflakes with six corners, so it is also called "Liu Chu". Flying: scattered and flying everywhere.
It is snowing heavily. Example: Every plant has five flowers, but snowflakes only have six.
(Han Han Ying's "Han Shi Wai Zhuan") The cold wind invades the muscles to describe the cold weather. Example: A cold front passes through, the cold wind invades the skin, and there are few pedestrians on the street.
Thousands of Miles Frozen Frozen: Covered by ice and snow. For example: The severe winter in the Northeast, thousands of miles of ice.
Shuo Feng is biting. Shuo Feng: the cold wind blowing from the north. Biting: bitingly cold.
See also: Bitter Cold. Example: The harsh winter is miserable and the cold is biting. (Tang Dynasty Li Bai's "The Great Hunt") The weather is cold and the ground is freezing. It describes the extremely cold weather.
Example: It’s freezing cold today, so it’s hard for the army and horses to stay for a long time, so we have to go back to the mountain. (Ming Dynasty Shi Naian's "Water Margin") Snow Abuse Fengtao Abuse: tyranny.
Taoist: greedy and cruel. It's windy again and it's snowing again.
Refers to the violent and raging wind and snow, describing the weather as very cold. Example: The year is bad, the weather is cold, the snow is blowing, and the wind is blowing.
(Tang Dynasty Han Yu's "Memorial to Zhang Yuan of Henan") Example: The fragrance is faint and the shadows are sparse, and the snow and wind are blowing freely. (Poem "Looking for Plum Blossoms in the Snow" by Lu You of the Song Dynasty) Also written: The gluttonous wind beats the snow, the ice and snow are severe, severe cold: extremely cold.
The weather is freezing and freezing. Example: Although various vegetables are planted early and late according to the seasons, and sometimes one kind of vegetable is harvested before that kind of vegetable is planted; but except for the winter with severe ice and snow, there are always vegetables in the vegetable garden in spring, summer and autumn. Several vegetables are competing for fertilizer and green leaves.
(Wu Boxiao's "Short Notes on the Vegetable Garden") Chilling cicadas are desolate. Chilling cicadas: Cicadas in the cold weather. When it's cold, cicadas make a sad and low sound.
It is often used in literature to set off a sad atmosphere and mood. Example: Then the poor people sighed and said to each other: "The cicadas are wailing, and their sounds are also sad; at dusk at four o'clock, they are wandering by the river."
(Jin Dynasty Lu Yun's "Lu Qinghe" Collection·Han Cicada Fu") The twelfth lunar month of winter: the twelfth lunar month. Refers to the twelfth lunar month, the coldest day in winter.
For example: In the cold winter, heavy snow falls, and the mountains and fields are covered in white. Example: The husband is traveling far away from home, and the wanderer is in love with his hometown.
In the cold winter of December, I woke up in the morning and faced severe frost. (Han Dynasty Anonymous' "Farewell Poems (Branches and Leaves of Flesh and Bone)") Lin Hanjian Su Han: cold.
Su: To kill. It refers to the scene of withered trees and dry streams in autumn and winter.
Example: Every clear and first frosty day, the forest is cold and the streams are austere. A tall ape often screams, which is very sad. (Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu·Jiang Shui" by Li Daoyuan in the Later Wei Dynasty of the Northern Dynasty) The mountains are cold and the water is cold, deserted and clear.
Describe the scene in winter. Example: In autumn, the mountains are cold and the water is cold; in spring, the willows are green and the flowers are red.
(Song Dynasty Shi Puji's "Five Lanterns Huiyuan") The cold weather at the end of the year refers to the cold scene at the end of the year. It's extremely cold. It's extremely cold.
Example: It’s freezing cold today, so it’s hard for the army and horses to stay for a long time, so we have to go back to the mountain. (Shi Naian's "Water Margin" of the Ming Dynasty) Ice and snow kiln is full of ice and snow.
Refers to severe cold areas. Example: Sighing that the horse's horns are not yet born, the soul disappears in the snow kiln; climbing the dragon's beard but unable to catch it, tears shed in the ice sky.
("History of the Song Dynasty·Zhu Bian's Biography") Ice and Snow Cellar describes extremely cold weather. Example: The young master edited and repaired your boat and accompanied him, advising him to save his labor and rest for a while.
Gong Ran said with emotion: "Twenty thousand miles of ice and snow, alone in the cold weather, it's not hard, but sometimes you are worried about working hard?" (Chen Kangqi of the Qing Dynasty, "Lang Qian Jiwen") The heavy snow is like goose feathers The same snowflakes. Describes the snow falling heavily and fiercely.
Example: Tonight the snowy goose feathers are pitiful, attracting high-spirited people. (Tang·Bai Juyi's "Visiting Mr. Li on a Snowy Night") Auspicious snow heralds a good year. Auspicious: auspicious.
It means that heavy snowfall in winter is a sign of good harvest in the coming year. Also written as: Snow heralds a prosperous year. Three friends in the cold year. Three friends: refers to pine, bamboo, and plum.
Pines and bamboos do not wither through the winter, but plum blossoms bloom in the cold weather, so they are known as the "Three Friends of the Cold". Close meanings include: pines and cypresses are in a cold alliance, the pines and cypresses are cold every year, the pines and cypresses are frozen for thousands of miles, the ground is frozen, the ground is frozen, the sky is frozen, the sky is frozen, the white snow is covered with silver, thousands of miles of snow is floating thousands of miles, the ice is frozen, the twelfth lunar month is pure and pure, the water is dripping into ice, the snow is flying, the wind is biting and the cold is pressing, adding frost to the snow, white snow in spring, autumn harvest, winter, hidden winter Qiu Xia Ge Shi Dong, twelfth lunar month, winter is cold, as cold as ice, ice is as cold as water, the sky is cold at the end of the year, the sky is cold, the ground is frozen, ice soul, snow soul, spring ice, tiger tail, as cold as frost, snow cellar, ice sky, rain and snow, see the sun, it means disappearing: snow is abundant The way it looks; when you say it, it's like "floating".
Sun; the heat of the sun. Said: It is a auxiliary word with no real meaning.
"The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Jiao Gong" The cold wind destroys the trees, and the severe frost freezes the orchids in the courtyard. The ancient Yuefu poem of the Han Dynasty "Ancient Poems Composed by Jiao Zhongqing's Wife" The wind is desolate at the end of the year, and the sun is covered with snow. There is no sound in my ears, and my eyes are clear. Desolate: cold and desolate.
Yiyi: dark. Hope: Less.
In the eye: what the eyes see. Hao: White.
How is it similar? The difference in the air can be imagined by spreading salt, not like the catkins blowing up due to the wind. "The bright moon shines on the snow, and the new wind is strong and sad: the north wind."
Jin: Violent. Sad: sad.
Feng Jing Bamboo: The wind carries snow and hits the bamboo, making a rustling sound.
Tang·Song Zhiwen "Response to the snow in the garden" The sound of water ice swallows, the sand road is smooth in the snow Tang·Liu Changqing "Repaying Zhang Xia Xue Ye's bitter cold work on the way to the state for a farewell visit" A green vine path, thousands of snow peaks clear the Tang Dynasty ·Li Bai's "Returning to the Old Mountains in Winter."
4. 20 poems about snow, thank you
1. When the grass withers, the eagle’s eye becomes anxious, and when the snow is gone, the horse’s hooves are light.
(Wang Wei: "Watching the Hunt") 2. When trying to drive away the Qingqi, heavy snow covered the bow and knife. (Lu Lun: "Song under the Sai") 3. I know it's not snow from afar, because there is a faint fragrance coming.
(Wang Anshi: "Plum Blossom") 4. A man in a boat with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. (Liu Zongyuan: "Jiang Xue") 5. Chai Men hears dogs barking and returns home on a snowy night.
(Liu Changqing: "The Master of Staying at Furong Mountain in the Snow") 6. The snow-capped mountains are covered by long clouds in Qinghai, and the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass in the distance. (Wang Changling: "Four of Seven Poems on the Military March") 7. If you want to cross the Yellow River, which is blocked by ice, you will have to climb the snow-covered mountains of Taihang.
(Li Bai: "Traveling is Difficult") 8. Thousands of miles of yellow clouds and white sun, and the north wind blows wild geese and snow. (Gao Shi: "Farewell to Dong Da") 9. The window contains the snow of Qianqiu in the Xiling Mountains, and the door is docked with ships thousands of miles away from Dongwu.
(Du Fu: "Quatrains") 10. The north wind blows and the white grass breaks, and the snow falls in August. (Cen Shen: (Bai Xuege sends Magistrate Wu back to the capital)) Cen Shen The north wind blows and the white grass breaks on the ground, and Hutian blows snow in August.
Suddenly a spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloomed. Scattered into the bead curtain and wet Luo imitation, the fox fur is not warm and the brocade quilt is thin.
The general's horns and bows cannot be controlled, and the protective armor is still cold. The vast sea is covered with hundreds of feet of ice, and the gloomy clouds condense thousands of miles away.
The Chinese army prepares wine and drinks for the returning guests, playing fiddles, lutes, and flutes. Snow falls one after another on the camp gate, and the red flag is blown by the wind and does not turn over due to the freezing cold.
I saw you off at the east gate of Luntai. When you left, the Tianshan Road was covered with snow. You can't be seen on the winding mountain road, leaving a place for horses to walk in the sky above the snow.
Zu Yong: The Yin ridge in Zhongnan is beautiful, and the snow is floating in the clouds. The forest shows its bright color, and the city becomes colder at dusk.
Spring Snow Liu Fangping The flying snow brings the spring breeze, wandering around in the sky.
You look like a flower, but you are in the east of Luocheng.
Liu Zongyuan Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have disappeared; A man with a coir raincoat hat is alone in a boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. An ancient poem about the scenery said: "Looking at Luofu in the snow, the jade peak rises high, I don't know the village at the foot of the mountain, people live in the plum blossoms." The snow falls and the smoke from the stove rises. The phoenix hairpin at the bottom of the candle is bright, and the person with the hairpin head is lighter.
The sound of the trumpet prompts the dawn, and the dawn returns to the cow fight. It’s hard to see the flowers in spring, but the west wind leaves behind the old cold.
Shen Pei The snow has just begun to fall outside the curtain, and the fragrance of green is still burning. Sitting alone in the cold night makes me feel tired, the distance is so far away, and the broken dreams make me even more lonely.
Quatrains (Du Fu, Tang Dynasty) Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascends to the blue sky. The window contains the snow of Qianqiu in the Xiling Mountains, and the door is docked with ships thousands of miles away from Dongwu.
"Snowy Plum" (two poems) Lu Meipo The plum and snow are fighting for the spring but they are not willing to fall, Sao Renge writes for the commentary. The plum blossoms are three cents whiter than the snow, but the snow is less fragrant than the plum blossoms.
Having plums but no snow is not spiritual, and having snow but no plums is vulgar. Poetry at dusk is full of snow all day long, and it is very spring when combined with plum blossoms.
"Listen to the sound of Dong Da playing the Hujia and sending a message to the house to help" Li Qi and Cai Nuxi made the sound of the Hujia, and every time they played, there were ten beats. The foreigners shed tears and touched the grass, and the Han envoys broke their hearts to the returning guests.
The ancient garrison was green and beacon fire was cold, and the wilderness was heavy and white with flying snow. First, I brushed the Shang string and then the corner feathers, and the autumn leaves in the suburbs were startled. [扌奇][扌奇] Mr. Dong, who has channeled the gods, eavesdropped on the demons coming from the deep mountains.
No matter how late it is, it will be faster than it is, and it will spin back and forth as if it were sentimental. The empty mountains are full of birds scattered and reunited, and the clouds are cloudy and clear.
The sour young geese lost their flock at night, cutting off the voice of Oedipus Hu'er. The river is still and its waves are quiet, and the birds have stopped singing. The Wusun tribe's hometown is far away, and they are filled with sorrow and sadness.
The quiet sound changes its tone and drifts suddenly, and the long wind blows the forest rain and the tiles fall. The springs are rustling, the trees are flying, and the wild deer are walking down the hall.
Chang'an City is connected to Dongye Yuan, and Phoenix Pond is connected to Qingsuo Gate. Talented people don't care about fame and fortune. Every day and night, I hope you will arrive with your harp in your arms.
"Zuomachuan is walking to send the doctor Feng off for the Western Expedition" Author: Cen Shen I don't see you, Zumachuan is walking by the snowy seaside, and the flat sand is yellow and yellow in the sky. The wind roared on the September night in Luntai, and the gravel in the river was as big as a bucket, and the stones were scattered all over the ground in the wind.
The Xiongnu grass is yellow and the horses are fat, smoke and dust are flying in the west of Jinshan Mountain, and the Han generals are marching west. The general's golden armor stayed on all night, and the troops fought against each other in the middle of the night. The limelight was like a knife cutting across the face.
The horse hair is steaming with snow and sweat, the five-flowered money is swirled into ice, and the grass and inkstone in the curtain are condensed with water. The captive cavalry should be frightened when they hear this, knowing that the soldiers are short-distance and dare not meet them, so the military counselor Ximen stands still to show his victory.
"Night in the Pavilion" by Du Fu The yin and yang rushes into a short scene at the end of the year, and there is frost and snow at the end of the world. The sound of drums and horns at the fifth watch is solemn and solemn, and the shadow of the stars in the Three Gorges wavers.
The crouching dragon and the leaping horse end in the loess, and the human affairs news and books are full of loneliness.
"Ambition" by Du Fu Three cities are garrisoned with white snow on the west mountain, and there are thousands of miles of bridges on the Qingjiang River in Nanpu. The wind and dust in the sea are separated by brothers, and the tears are far away at the end of the world.
But in his later years, he was suffering from many illnesses, and there was no way to answer the holy pilgrimage. When I walked out of the suburbs on horseback, my eyes were filled with unbearable depression.
Yuan Zhen saw that the clouds at the top of the ridge were like coverings, and the snow was like dust on the rocks. There were thousands of peaks with bamboo shoots, thousands of jade trees, and thousands of trees, pines, and thousands of clouds. Gao Pian When six flying flowers enter the house, sit and watch the green bamboos turn into green branches. Ouyang Xiu The snow disappears outside the door and the mountains are green, and the flowers bloom by the river. It is sunny in February. The plum blossoms are less white than the snow, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum blossoms.
5. Twenty lines of ancient poems describing winter
1. And it is winter this year, and the death of Kansai is not over.
2. The autumn moon shines brightly, and the winter ridge shows the cold pines. 3. The southern neighbor is even more memorable, and the cloth has not been redeemed in the winter.
4. Winter is coming to an end tonight, and the new year is brightening and the sun is getting longer. 5. The sound of the sheng blows up the autumn wind, and the wine blows away the winter snow.
6. When winter comes, all the flowers will die. 7. It’s the winter solstice in Handan Posthouse, and the shadows in front of the lanterns hugging the knees accompany me.
8. Who cut out thousands of piles of snow from the flat ground to create this continuous ceiling? 9. The snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain are as big as a mat, and they blow down Xuanyuan Terrace one after another.
10. A vine path is green, and thousands of snow-capped peaks are clear. 11.. The setting sun is on the sparse bamboos, and the remaining snow is scattered in the mountains.
12. I don’t know if the rain in the courtyard has fallen this morning, but I suspect that the forest flowers bloomed last night. 13. The sound of water makes you swallow the ice, and the sandy road is flat in the snow.
14. The clouds are low in the evening, and the snow is dancing in the wind. 15. The wind shakes the bamboos across the door, and the mountains are covered with snow when the door opens.
16. The stream is too deep to bear the snow, and the mountain is so frozen that the clouds cannot flow. 17. All the frozen springs are swallowed, but I feel the cold even more.
18. Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have disappeared. A man with a coir raincoat in a lone boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
19. Only then did I see the clouds covering the top of the mountain, and the snow on the rocks was like dust. Thousands of peaks, bamboo shoots, thousands of jade trees, thousands of usneas trees and thousands of clouds.
20. When the six flying flowers come into the house, sit and watch the green bamboos turn into green branches.
6. 5 urgent sentences of more than 20 words about winter
1. Winter wind is a naughty little boy who loves to whistle. He blows to the east for a while, and runs to the west for a while. Wherever he goes, he will become active.
2. Winter wind loves to joke with people. The little brown bear is particularly afraid of the cold. When the weather gets cold, he will stay at home and warm himself by the stove. The winter wind slapped his window hard, urging him to go outside to play games and have snowball fights.
3. It’s another cold night, and it’s snowing again. The soft snowflakes bloom quietly in the evening breeze. Although it is cold and silent, it is vaguely filled with warm tenderness. From my finger. Pointed, flowing into your heart.
4. The pine trees stood green in the white snow, swaying with the biting northwest wind and making sharp and piercing whistles, as if they were deliberately despising winter.
5. In the middle of winter, the north wind is biting, silver-gray clouds are galloping in the sky, the cold current is rolling, and a heavy snow is brewing.
6. Although winter does not have the charming birds singing and fragrance of flowers in spring, the spectacular lightning and thunder in summer, and the attractive abundant fruits in autumn, it also has the implicit beauty dedicated to nature
I hope it can help you
7. Five-character quatrains about winter
1. Jiang Xue Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan birds flew away over thousands of mountains, and all traces of people disappeared.
A man in a boat with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. All the mountains are barren of birds, and all the roads are barren of human beings.
In a lone boat on the river, the fisherman wears a raincoat and a hat; fishing alone, he is not afraid of ice and snow. 2. Tianjingsha·Winter Yuan Dynasty: Bai Pu painted the corner of Qiaomen with a sound, half of the courtyard was under the new moon at dusk, and the waterside was in front of the snowy mountain.
A hut with a bamboo fence, an isolated village with faint smoke and decaying grass. Translation: On a winter evening, there was a soft sound from the city gate, a new moon hung in the sky, and the water in front of the mountain with snow was flowing slowly.
The bamboo fence and the hut inside the fence create a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in the isolated village. 3. The owner of the Furong Mountain who stayed at Furong Mountain during the snow. Tang Dynasty: Liu Changqing said that at dusk, the mountains are far away, and the weather is cold and the white house is poor.
Chaimen hears dogs barking, and people return home on a snowy night. Translation: The dusk is dim, and I feel that the mountain road ahead is far away.
The weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and I feel that I am staying in a poor family. Suddenly I heard the barking of a Chaimen dog, which must be the owner returning home on a snowy night.
4. Snowy Night in the Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi was surprised that his quilt was cold and his pillow was cold, and he saw the light from the window again. Late at night, I know the snow is heavy, and I hear the sound of breaking bamboo.
I was surprised when I lay on my pillow at night and saw the light from the white snow shining through the window. Late at night, I knew it was snowing heavily because from time to time I could hear the sound of the snow crushing bamboo branches.
5. He Zhang Pu She Sai Xia Qu·The third Tang Dynasty: Lu Lunyue black geese flying high, Shan Yu fled at night. When I want to chase Qingqi away, heavy snow covers my bow and sword.
Translation: The night is quiet, the moon is full, the black geese are flying high, and the Chanyu is taking advantage of the darkness to escape quietly. Just as he was about to lead the light cavalry to catch up, heavy snow fell on his bows and knives.