The ancient poems about children playing with snow include Young Children Making Ice
Young Children Making Ice
Author Yang Wanli?
In the Dynasty and Song Dynasty, the golden basin of the young child took off the ice, and the colored silk was worn as a silver Zheng.
the jade chime rang through the forest, and suddenly the glass broke.
The whole poem absorbs the instant scene and avoids direct description. It uses vivid sound of "walking through the forest" and appropriate metaphor to explore the interest of young children with the eyes of old people.
The scene of children making ice in the poem is full of fun. Mentally, they "make ice" in cold weather, and their childlike innocence is hot. In color, the "gold" plate "color" silk string "silver" ice; Morphologically, it is a "silver plate" with a "golden plate", which is round; On the sound, there is a high-pitched sound of "jade is ringing through the forest", and suddenly it turns into the crisp sound of "glass breaking".
The whole poem is full of sense, beauty in sound and meaning, pleasing to the ear, and vividly shows children's full interest in taking ice as a pheasant and enjoying themselves.
The whole poem highlights the word "childish". Childishness and fun can make a child forget the cold of winter and keep his vitality and happiness as always. There are many similarities in psychological characteristics between children and the elderly, and only in this way can the scene of children's "acting out of the ice" be meaningful in the eyes of the elderly.
It is based on this psychological characteristic of connecting young and old that Yang Wanli turns childlike interest into poetic interest through the technique of "taking the young as the old". On the one hand, he describes the details of the action of "de-icing" from the psychology of the young child; On the other hand, based on the psychology of the world, we feel and appreciate the details of their behavior, so that the childishness of children and the "naivety" of the old people set each other off and become poetic.
Only by respecting children's innocence from the heart can poets describe children's interest in playing ice so vividly.
Extended information
As a traditional sports activity of the people in northern China, ice play has a long history, but there is no exact textual research on when it originated, but it was clearly recorded in the Song Dynasty at the latest. According to the Records of Rites in the History of Song Dynasty, the emperor at that time liked the entertainment activities on the ice, and "watched flowers and made ice play" in the backyard.
in the Ming dynasty, ice skating was listed as a court sport. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi had an army that was good at skating. Nurhachi conquered the Balhuth tribe in the period of Destiny (1616-1626). After the soldiers left, the Balhuth tribe defected again, and it was urgent to besiege Mogen.
At this time, Nujun had traveled hundreds of miles away. According to the "Wula Slipper" in Qingyu Picking Banknotes, "All those who sometimes spend money on Guile are good at skating, driving sledges with guns, rushing to rescue along the ice layer of Naoweng River, and traveling 7 miles a night ... full of soldiers, Balhutt is still aware." The "Ula slider" running on the ice here is actually like modern skates.
The Qing Dynasty was the golden age for the development of ice skating in ancient China, which was directly related to the customs and habits of Manchu people who ruled the Qing Dynasty. Ice skating is a general term for many ice activities popular in Qing Dynasty. It is both an entertainment activity and a military exercise. In the Qing Dynasty, from the northeast to the customs, from the court to the people, ice skating was very popular, so it was called "national custom".
Yu Minzhong said in Book 21, Imperial Palace in the Sun: "(Xiyuan Taiye Pool) In the winter months, Chen Bing plays, learns to work and reward, and practices national customs with simple martial arts." At that time, the scale of ice skating was large and there were many participants, which was unprecedented.
according to the record of "le Kao 21", volume 175 of the general examination of Qing dynasty literature, "every year in October, the Eight Banners, the commanders of the vanguard and the guards are consulted, and 2 ice walkers are selected for each flag according to a fixed number. The Ministry of Internal Affairs prepares skates, costumes, bows and arrows, ball racks, etc.
After the winter solstice, I was lucky enough to drive Yingtai and other places, and put on ice dancing and shooting celestial balls. Divide the troops into two wings, with 2 leaders on each wing, wearing red and yellow jackets, and the rest wearing red and yellow shoulder-length jackets. One hundred and sixty soldiers shot the ball, and forty young children all wore mandarin jackets and carried small flags, and they shot by ice according to the colors of the Eight Banners. " It can be inferred that there are at least 16 people participating in ice skating.
At that time, ice skating activities were mainly held in Xiyuan Taiye Pool (now Beijing Beihai) and sometimes in Zhonghai. At that time, "the sacred driving the ice bed will be observed." Today, Beijing Beihai Yiyangtang is the place where Emperor Qianlong and later Empress Dowager Cixi watched the ice show.
At that time, the skates worn for skating activities were composed of shoes and skates. There are generally two kinds of shapes:
One is "embedded in the sole with a straight iron bar, which is as fast as flying feathers" (Volume 14 of Yangjizhai Conglu), which is very similar to the skates used in modern skating; The other is "double teeth at the bottom, which makes people gnaw" ("Introduction to Ice Play" in Volume 21 of Old News of the Sun "), which is a double-edged shoe. Because the skates are installed on both sides of the sole batten, it is not easy to fall down.
in the early years of Qing dynasty, bing Xi once entered the military. The Qing court regarded a series of ice activities as military training, and set up a skater department for special jurisdiction. Over time, the purpose of military training gradually faded, and the entertainment gradually emerged. The Palace Museum has a picture of ice play, which was painted by court painters Zhang Weibang and Yao Wenhan during the Qianlong period. This picture gives us an image and intuitive understanding of the ice play in the Qing Dynasty.
Ice-skating activities in the Qing Dynasty were popular not only in the imperial palace, but also among the people. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Li Shengzhen wrote in "Poems on Bamboo Branches in Hundred Plays": "If you are quick to walk, you will see that you are striding with great strides, and the cold current will freeze the snowflake spring. The iron shoes broke through the Mercedes-Benz and regretted being an ice man in the Galaxy. " Note: "Look at the iron-soled shoes, step by step, walk on the ice, and have the ability to fight and dance. All the doors are in winter, and the rivers are the most." ?
The article "Skating" in "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" is also called: In the cold winter, "people gather on the moats outside the cities to skate (that is, skate)". "Supplement to Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" said: "Playing cuju on the ice in Shichahai and the moat is a common practice." It can be seen that the content of folk skating activities is also very rich.
The Year of Yanjing, published in the thirty-second year of Guangxu (196), records that these skating activities carried out by the people were popular until the end of the Qing Dynasty and lasted for a long time. Even today, this activity is still popular and enduring, and "Ice Play Map" has been interpreted by people again and again.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bingxi