"Giving clothes in September" means that in September of the lunar calendar, every household begins to make warm clothes. There will be a scene written by Li Bai that "the moon slips away and hangs on the capital, and ten thousand hammers beat the ground". Please note that the "smashing clothes" here is not the southern woman we saw washing clothes with a mallet by the river. Why did the ancients pound clothes? Because in ancient times, linen was often used to make clothes, and the fibers of linen were hard and tied to the body, so we should put the newly woven clothes on the wooden anvil or stone anvil to make them soft and comfortable to wear. In Du Fu's Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity, "Cold clothes are everywhere, and Baidicheng is in a hurry" is about the situation of smashing clothes.
In ancient times, it was all done by women, so in autumn, women in every household often rushed to make warm clothes in the moonlight after busy farm work and housework during the day. Therefore, this kind of scene often appears in the poems of homesick wanderers.
The autumn wind is rustling, the firewood is rustling, and the wanderer has been wandering in another country for another year. Heartbroken people can't help homesick when they are at the ends of the earth, especially when they see clothes being beaten and hear the sound of anvil.
I am tired of smashing clothes, so I will send it to the wall. (Du Fu's "Yi Dao")
Bending needle and thread, flat anvil practice. Honeymoon is easy to cut, but Long Xiangxin is hard to see. (Joe "Join the Army")
In the shadow of Hong Fei, beyond the anvil, forever and ever towards the Jade Pass. ("Yan's Youth Journey")
The west wind is pounding the skirts, so it's time for the guests to close their hearts. (Lu You's "Feeling Autumn")
A day of frost, counting anvil sound. The guest dream has been difficult to achieve, and the autumn scenery is boundless. (Xin Qiji, "Health Checker? And Xia Zhongyu ")
Chu Nai-Ke has been in it for a long time, and his anvil is full of sadness. (Jiang Kui's "Farewell Songs")
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The beating of clothes and the sound of anvil have become typical images in ancient poetry, representing the yearning for hometown and relatives.
We also learned that Li Bai wrote in Midnight Wu Ge? Qiu Ge's "moon shortage" hangs over the capital, and the streets are empty. The autumn wind blew Yi Dao's voice, and every household remembered the people guarding the border. Oh, when will the Tatar army be conquered and when will my husband come back from the long battle! ? "Expressed disgust at the long war and deep sympathy for those left-behind women who miss their husbands.