Today is "Li Dong(立冬 )" day. According to the lunar calendar, the winter of 2010 begins from November 7th!
читать дальше-更多内容From ancient Chinese customs, today is the beginning of winter, and winter will last several months. Actually things are quite different from north to south. My friend in Heilongjiang province told me that her city is cold for weeks, but in my city students can wearing shirt uniform now--it's warm here. How about Hainan island? I don't think they will have a real "winter"...(lol)
The food of Li Dong is dumpling. Well...I don't know why, maybe because winter is a season for storing energy.
Here is a poem of Li Dong:
立冬 [唐]李白
冻笔新诗懒写，
寒炉美酒时温。
醉看墨花月白，
恍疑雪满前村。
Li Dong [Tang Dynasty(A.D.618~907)] Li Bai
The coldness frozen my writing brush, and I feel too lazy to write new poems.
Sometime I love to warm my wine by using shabby stove.
I drunk, seeing flowers become dark and moon lights so white.
I suspected that was heavy snow, covered my village site.
Have a nice winter! ^_^