Every winter, we will see many different forms of snow. Especially in this year's Winter Olympics, various competitive competitions have opened our "new world of ice and snow". As a modern person, the process of snow appreciation is naturally to take photos, take videos and send a circle of friends. What would the ancients with big brain holes do in the snow? We might as well go through the circle of friends into ancient paintings and books and enjoy the heavy snow falling for thousands of years with the ancients. Bing dwen dwen, Shuey Rhon Rhon, not enough, properly put up a zoo. Bing dwen dwen worthy of the name of Bing dwen dwen Shuey Rhon Rhon, the Winter Olympic Games mascot, became a veritable Beijing Winter Olympic Games, especially the ice pier pier, whether it is online or offline, it is "hard to get". Bing dwen dwen Bing dwen dwen, many netizens in the city have been using snow piles to build ice blocks. Many netizens shouted "creative" in the commentary area. In fact, Bing dwen dwen is not innovative, but instead, it is pursuing a "retro" trend, because in ancient times, the ancient people also played games full of children's fun. But they don't make snowmen, but mainly animals, such as lions. According to the records of Tokyo dreamland, "rich families have a feast in case of snow, plastic snow lions and install snow lamps to kiss the old." Yes, you're right. The ancients were so pompous when they played with snow. Simple snowmen didn't build them. If they wanted to build them, they would build a snow lion and come out of the town. Not only wealthy families like snow lions, but also the imperial palaces of the Song Dynasty are full of interest in snow lions. Zhou Mi of the Southern Song Dynasty once recorded in detail the basic process of appreciating snow lions in the Imperial Palace at that time in the old stories of Wulin: "snow lions and snow lions enter the back garden and are decorated with golden bells and color strands, and made snowflakes, snow lamps, snow mountains and so on." In the imperial palace of the Song Dynasty, not only large and small snow lions should be piled up, but also they should be wearing jewelry, such as hanging gold bells around their necks and wearing colored silk threads. In order to meet the occasion, in addition to snow lions, the ancients also built snow mountains, snowflakes, snow lamps and so on. The different approaches but equally satisfactory results are Shuey Rhon Rhon Shuey Rhon Rhon lantern, which is reminiscent of the snow melting of Beijing Winter Olympic Games. It is a snow lamp made of snow, and it has the same image as snow lantern. But then again, why did the ancients love lions so much? Are the snow lions made by the ancients the same species as the lions we see in the zoo? As early as the Han Dynasty, in order to establish diplomatic relations with the Han Dynasty, the Sabbath paid tribute to the lion and Fuba, and called them "auspicious beasts". Gradually, the image of the lion also penetrated into the daily folk life of the ancients. The most typical is the emergence of a large number of "stone lions" in ancient times, because the ancients believed that the stone lions were spiritual and could guard the four directions. Yu Shinan, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, wrote an article "Fu on the lion", which mentioned that the lion is a sacred beast in the wild; Later, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist, called the lion "the chief of all animals". It can be seen that the lion has always been a symbol of good luck, and it is an embodiment of identity in the palace. As for the snow lions built by the ancients in the snow, generally speaking, they look like stone lions: first, stone lions are more common, and the ancients didn't need to open too big brain holes; Second, the image of the stone lion is relatively stable, and it is not easy to collapse after stacking! After the Qing Dynasty, ancient people no longer focused on making snow lions. They began to make elephants and horses. Wu Zhenxi of the Qing dynasty recorded in Volume 14 of the records of the yangjizhai cluster: "when you get snow in winter, you pile up lions and elephants in the court of the Yangxin hall. You often invite Chen to chant with happy wishes. Qianlong Renshen and Yiyou use the couplets of snow lions and snow elephants. Jiaqing Wuyin also piles up two lying horses, which are separated from the East and the west, and there are couplets with the imperial Lin of the inner court." When snow lions, snow elephants and snow horses are piled up, the emperor and the imperial scholars in the palace will use this as the theme to recite poems and Fu. In the Bianjing palace Ci, written by Yan Jihu during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, there are poems describing the snow watching and entertainment in the palace, such as: "the snow is colorful in the sky, and the lions are piled up in front of the elephant stage." It can be seen that the ancients loved the mascot in the snow. Snow is still inseparable from the word "eat and drink", even rabbit It's fun to have fun with the snow pile mascot, but it's a little cold after all. When it's cold, you'll be hungry. Therefore, after the ancients played with the snow, their favorite thing is to make an appointment. The most classic way to make an appointment on a snowy day is to ask Liu 19, written by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty: "green ant new fermented grains, wine, red mud small stove. If you want snow in the evening, can you have a glass of tea?" On a snowy evening, the newly brewed rice wine at home has not been filtered, and a layer of green bubbles appear on the wine surface, with a pungent aroma. The hot wine made of red mud is also ready in a small stove. Just wait for a good friend to have a drink! If someone asks for a meal, naturally someone will come to the door to rub the meal. The ancients who paid attention to etiquette, they can't do it empty handed, can they? Under normal circumstances, the ancients would bring some good wine or some snacks to eat when they came to the door for dinner, but Lin Hong's recipe in the Southern Song dynasty recorded one thing, The gift he brought to visit his family was really special: "I visited the six tunes of Wuyi Mountain. In snowy days, I got a rabbit and no one could make it. Shi Yun: in the mountains, only thin batches of wine, sauce and pepper are used. The wind stove is installed on the seat, with less than half of water. After a cup of soup rings, each part is served with chopsticks, so that I can bring myself into the soup and eat it. I can serve it with juice as appropriate." When Lin Hong visited his friends in the snow, he caught a rabbit on the way, so his gift for this visit was this rabbit. However, there was no cook in the mountains, so Lin Hong's good friend thought of a way. He said to Lin Hong, "everything can be put into the hot pot! I'll prepare some dipping materials, and today we'll rinse the rabbit hot pot!" Sure enough, in the eyes of eaters, rabbits are not pets, but food. In addition to instant boiled meat, the ancients also liked to eat fish in snowy days. In the Palace Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York, there is a Tuan fan painting. The former is called the picture of selling fish in the snow River and the latter is called the picture of buying fish in the snow bridge. In the snow landscape, the detail of buying and selling live fish, which seems to be full of smoke and fire in the market, brings interest to the picture. Although many scholars believe that it is used to reflect the ideal spiritual world of literati and fishermen, it also reflects the fact that the ancients liked to eat live fish in snow. Not only the ancients in the Central Plains loved to eat live fish in snowy days, but also the nomads in the north. They would dig ice holes in frozen rivers and lakes in winter and catch big fish. A kind of fish hook used for catching fish of Qidan nationality was unearthed from the Liao tomb in yemaotai, Faku, Liaoning Province. The hook has a sharp tip, a long hook body and a wooden handle. This is an artifact used to "dig ice and hook fish". After eating meat and drinking wine, the ancients would also drink tea and scrape oil in the snow. However, how could the ancients with big brain holes honestly only cook tea? Yes, they've come up with another trick. In the eyes of the ancients, normal mountain spring water can no longer meet their pursuit of snow, wind and elegance, so they locked their goal in snow. Gao Lian of the Ming Dynasty once said in the painting of sweeping snow and cooking tea: "tea is cooked with snow, and the taste is cleaner. It is the river for half a day. It is free from dust and dirt. It is enough for you to sip it to break the cold." It seems that the ancients should not only cook tea with snow in snowy days, but also take the snow on plum blossom, orchid and green pine. They feel that as long as they drink this cup of snow cooked tea, they can have the cleanness of snow, the pride of plum, the elegance of orchid and the integrity of green pine. This is clearly our modern popular "concept tea"! Crazy people are easy to appear in snowy days. Zhang Dai collected wonderful stories about snowy days After playing with snow, having dinner and drinking tea, it's natural to be "artificial". We modern people often make some stunts and make a circle of friends in the snow. Some people practice yoga in the snow, some go to the Forbidden City in Hanfu, and some lie in the snow to imitate idol films to take photos... The "artificial" in the snow of the ancients is naturally very special, which can be called performance art. For example, in the Song Dynasty, a man named Wang Jiang wandered around Chenzhou (now Huaiyang, Henan). Although he was a tramp, there were many fans at that time. Scholar bureaucrats such as Su Dongpo and Su Zhe were his loyal fans. In addition to his unruly love of freedom, Wang Jiang also has a special function, that is, in snowy days, he will bury himself with snow and then melt the snow with hot air. After the snow melted, Wang Jiang had nothing to do and continued to drink while wandering. It is said that those who saw this scene were shocked. Maybe this is not the most wonderful thing in the snow. In addition to going to huxinting to see the snow and writing a small composition, Zhang Dai, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, did a great job in the snow. That is, in the volume 1 of the book "night boat", he opened a column called "astronomy department · snow frost", which specially collected wonderful passages about the snow. Among them, we are familiar with "catkins due to the wind", "stepping on the snow to look for plum", "reading in the snow" and "gnawing snow and swallowing felt", which are relatively normal. Some other passages can only shock us modern people. For example, the passage "desire to be immortal" says that the King Crown of Yue people is not afraid of cold when it is snowy. He goes to the furnace peak barefoot. After looking around, he shouts: "heaven and earth are made of white jade, which makes people's heart clear, so he wants to be immortal!" Like Wang Mian, there is also "fairy man". The article says that Wang Gong of Jin once walked in the snow in a crane hair cloak. When Meng Xu saw him, he touted him commercially: "Oh! You are really an immortal!" There is also a Taoist named tiejiao. He is not afraid of cold or diarrhea. On a snowy day, he likes to walk barefoot in the snow. When he is happy, he will recite "Nanhua · autumn water" loudly. Then he will pick some plum blossoms and chew them in his mouth. When he feels a little dry, he will make some snow and swallow them together. In this regard, he explained: "I will soak this cold fragrance into my heart and bones! In this way, I will be as fragrant as plum blossom and as clean as snow!" We don't know whether these performance artists have become immortals or whether they have cold fragrance into their bones, but one performance artist got an offer in the snow. The title of this passage is very poetic. It is called "lying snow". The protagonist is yuan an, a famous Minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that one year there was a heavy snow in Luoyang, and others went out to beg for food. Only the snow in front of Yuan'an gate remained the same. When Luoyang ordered people to check by house, they thought yuan an had died of cold and hunger, so they asked people to sweep the snow in front of his door and then enter the house to have a look. After entering the door, Luoyang Ling and his entourage found yuan an lying upright as if he was not dead, so he asked yuan an, "why don't you go out?" Yuan an replied: "in this snowy day, everyone is hungry. You shouldn't disturb others. I'll lie down for a while..." as soon as this sentence came out, the pattern came out: it's not easy for people to maintain integrity when they are hungry and cold! Luoyang Ling thought yuan an was a virtuous person, so he regarded it as filial piety and integrity. Since then, the allusion of yuan Anwo snow has actually become a millennium super IP (intellectual property, extended as the general term of famous cultural creation). Not only do they like to use this allusion in poetry, but also they like to add this element to their snow landscape paintings. Perhaps yuan an didn't think that a heavy snow had changed his life. After brushing the circle of friends of the ancients in the snow, we must praise the ancients. They are really