Winter is long, people get lost in the vast expanse, looking for their homes. Winter is long, sloppy and romantic. In winter, people can forget utility and have no purpose. It is also a happy thing to just sit in the sun for a while. Winter is suitable for doing anything: writing memories into poems, composing loneliness into music and drawing inspiration.
Winter is such a season that it slows everything down. In addition to maintaining survival and reducing unnecessary activities, plants even minimize the intensity and frequency of breathing. Humans will slow down the pace of life, reduce work and social interaction, give themselves a chance to relax, and calm down to discover and think.
In winter, it is leisurely, light and poetic. Winter seems to have a healing power, which makes all life slow down, hide in its own stable corner, and wait for the soul to catch up in quiet time.
Long and slow, in the name of winter, we live like this.
The change of seasons is a natural law. Relaxation is also a way of life.
Spring planting, summer harvest and autumn harvest are hectic in every season. In winter, in this season that is no longer suitable for outdoor work and activities, nature has adjusted another pace of life for us, healing and repairing the soul and body that spent a year.
Happiness in winter is to live the true taste of life slowly.
Wang Zengqi has a collection of essays called Slow Cooking Life, which he thinks is very appropriate to describe winter. If life in winter is compared to cooking, it must be suitable for stewing.
In winter, the family will cook a pot of soup with the most abundant raw materials, or stew a chicken with the most meticulous mind, carefully prepare and stew slowly, in order to maximize the retention of nutrition and umami, and the effect of fitness and health preservation is better.
The key to cooking is the temperature. Let the delicious food settle down and be sure to stew it slowly. Don't worry in winter, don't mind grinding good things several times, just wait and enjoy the harvest brought by your efforts. In the persistent slow stew, we should keep a good sense of proportion and keep the boiling point until the successful stew is delicious, which is like completing a practice.
It's cold in winter, so water cooling and stewing are more suitable. In the cold world, we live in our own small space, and there are always some daily observations, so that we can enjoy the warmth and observe our hearts.
Bai Juyi said in "Negative Winter": "Winter comes out and shines in the south corner of my house. Sit down with your eyes closed and be kind to your skin. " The room is full of sunshine. You can close your eyes, paint a layer of warm color on your face and wash away the dust in your heart. Many busy doubts can be sorted out again. Some precious moments are also worth extracting separately, savoring and embedding in memory.
Life in winter is always going deep. Just like a cup of slow-cooked food, it takes time to cook until it tastes delicious and stew until it is crisp and rotten.
Sometimes, people can't help slowing down in winter. It is inconvenient to go out and do outdoor activities in winter, which forces us to go back to the house and gives us a lot of time to learn and get along with it.
Winter may be negative, but people who have nothing to do can always relax in the slow season and make the depressed winter poetic and lively. Surrounding the stove, gathering elegance, enjoying the snow and drawing pictures to eliminate the cold are still the pleasures of this life.
The lazy teacher of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem: "Make a fire in the middle of the night, and the muddy family will sit around. Cooked taro, the son of heaven is not as good as me. " The whole family sat around the fire, eating and drinking happily, which really didn't change for an emperor.
It is recorded in Yanjing Miscellaneous Notes that literati will take turns to treat guests in winter months, which is called "removing cold". Nine like-minded friends got together and everyone took turns to treat them. They get together once every nine days, and there will be various themes, such as plum blossom viewing or snow viewing. When everyone is the master, winter will be over.
This method of dispelling cold is very similar to the "Ninth Five-Year Plan for Eliminating Cold". This kind of game is popular from the court to the folk, which can be described as both refined and popular. Some write about enjoying the cool, such as "weeping willows in front of the pavilion, cherishing the spring breeze" and "sending fragrant flowers to the room in the spring vestibule", each with nine words and nine strokes, which are outlined. From the winter solstice to nine, fill in one stroke every day, and it will be nine after filling in one word. After nine words are filled in, spring scenery is already deep.
Some draw pictures to drive away the cold, or draw 8 1 circle to form auspicious patterns; Or draw a plum blossom, * * * eighty-one petals, one petal a day. When a plum blossom is in full bloom, it will be cold and spring.
Schiller said: "People are complete only when they are completely playing games." "Playing with things and getting tired of it" seems a bit overkill, but I still have to admit that I appreciate this sentence.
People will have different feelings in their leisure time: they may give birth to a group of desires, or they may lead to emptiness and depression. Game is a state of life, which dispels emptiness and boredom, while gaining entertainment, interest and elegance. Winter games are relaxing and enjoyable, just like the pastoral where we put our souls, caring about our own life and the world around us.
Cold, cold and cold in winter should be eliminated bit by bit. In the past, people were not even keen on playing games. Can you be more patient in winter? Record your life and mood slowly, stroke by stroke, and restore our inner appearance.
The universe was originally empty, but people were never satisfied with it.
The long winter, cold day and long night are bleak and lonely, but in people's hearts, there can be warm weather and singing of vegetation, and every inch of time is rich and beautiful.
In winter, everything has a cold side. It is also winter, and any slight warmth is easily magnified by us infinitely.
In winter, at a slow pace, we walk into our hearts and are satisfied with the joy of luck. We are willing to spend more time alone, or share it with family and friends, wandering in the slow time and pondering the rhythm of life.
Once, Wang Ziyou slowly created a legendary snowy night in history. On a snowy night, he suddenly remembered Diane Road and went to visit by boat. It took me one night to get there, but I didn't come in. When people asked him why, Wang Zi said, "Go on a whim and come back when you are happy." . So satisfied.
Every time I think about this story, the whole universe in the picture seems to slow down. Perhaps, in winter, everyone has to have a boat moving slowly in the snowy night, as if to take us somewhere, but on the way to enjoy ourselves, a round world is constructed.
The long winter is endless and dreamlike. Slow-heating people are exquisite and romantic.
The poet said that the characteristics of spring can only be recognized in winter, and the best May poems can be sung behind the stove.
In winter, we cross the cold, meet the people we want to see most, record the most real life and write the most secret thoughts. We sow the seeds of some activities in our life, rest in a quiet corner and wait for the next spring day to stretch again.
It's so cold in winter, but it makes us particularly warm. Winter creates too many constraints, but it makes us so free.
The world is so far away and the heart is so close. Long and slow is the greatness of winter.
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