Chapter 99 snow window galloping

It was snowing heavily outside the window.I stood in front of the window and stared. It had been snowing for several days, and there were white flowers everywhere, and the air was refreshingly fresh... I thought, this snow scene is so beautiful, but how difficult it is to describe it!At this time, I ran through many books I read when I was a child, and there is a story in these books with snow as the background.First of all, the monsters in the village, the king of inspiration, took advantage of Tang Monk's "impatient to learn scriptures", and fell a burst of heavy snow on the Tongtian River eight hundred miles away, freezing the Tongtian River like a mirror. Tang Seng and his party were deceived, "Facing the brilliance of the stars and the moon, reflected on the ice, bright and white, just running around..." fell into his hands.Then it was the second time among Liu Xuande's three visits to the thatched cottage, and he also encountered the harsh winter weather of "the wind is fierce, the snow is falling, the mountains are like jade clusters, and the trees are like silver clothes".Mang Zhangfei, who originally disapproved of his going, persuaded him "the wind and snow are very tight, it is better to return early", Liu Xuande was eager to seek talents, and finally arrived at the thatched cottage in the snow, but he was swept away again!In another passage, Jia Baoyu was thinking about enjoying the snow and composing poems with his sisters in Luxueting. He didn’t sleep well all night. "It turns out that the ground is already one foot thick, and the sky is still like rubbing cotton wool..." The best part is the section "Lin Jiaotou Fengxue Mountain Temple", which is described most simply and vividly, from "it is the severe winter weather" , The clouds are dense, the wind is rising, but it has already rolled up and the next day is snowing", describing a lonely and indignant Lin Chong, "In the snow, walking on the north wind, the snow is coming down. "Tight"... In these four snow scenes, there are four characters of different ages and different aspirations... My memory is constantly running, and some words and sentences describing the snow scene are passing through my mind, and finally in Chairman Mao's "Qin "Yuanchun" stopped on the words.This eternal swan song chanting snow has been completed in one go from "...thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting" to "counting romantic figures, and looking at the present". The first half is the land of hundreds of thousands of miles across the motherland, and the second half is history. Heroes who have gone up and down for thousands of years, and finally a generation of romantic figures who have mastered Marxism-Leninism and liberated themselves here today.In just a few decades, we can see that our great leader is broad-minded and bold, and how proud our great leader is to be happy and proud of this generation of romantic figures!

In the silver-gray sky, heavy snow is still fluttering underground.In my heart, I feel boundless peace and joy.I no longer think, I just look at this white land. On the hill of "Jade Cluster", there are a few branches of small trees with a few clumps of dead leaves, and fluffy snow flakes are piled on them, like blossoming cotton bolls.I think of the people's communes I have seen, and the flat and endless wheat fields in the communes, and there are many tanned, healthy and simple smiling faces.The heavy snow these days should give them great joy!I remember that during my visit to Handan at the end of last month, it also snowed heavily for three days. The farmers said happily: "The wheat will be covered with three layers of quilts, and next year I will sleep with steamed buns on my pillow." There is not a single "snow" in these fourteen words The word "snow" describes the joy that "snow" gives them - but I know that our brave and hard-working farmers will not "sleep on their pillows". Didn't they also say "strive for a bigger harvest every year" what?

(This article was originally published in "Beijing Evening News" on January 23, 1960, and was later included in the collection of essays "Xiaozha Gleaners".)