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This idiom is often used to describe what ANT FOREST is.

The idiom "holding ice in winter" is often used to describe its meaning: it means hard work and self-encouragement, and it also means hard life.

The introduction of ice holding in winter is as follows:

Holding ice in winter is a word, and the pinyin is d not ng hán bào bθng, which means holding ice when it is cold in winter. Gou Jian returned to China in the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu Yue: The King of Yue missed Wu, but hated Dan. Work hard day and night. ..... I often hold ice in winter and fire in summer.

Winter is introduced as follows:

Winter is one of the four seasons. The change of seasons throughout the year is a continuous process, and it is also a process of yin and yang transformation, from one to two, from quantitative change to qualitative change. In this gradual process, beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter, also known as "Sili", are the beginning of the season. Traditionally, China regards the 24 solar terms "beginning of winter" as beginning of winter.

The commonly used methods of season division mainly include "solar terms method" and "temperature method". The winter divided by solar terms method starts from "beginning of winter" and ends before the next "beginning of spring". According to the temperature method, winter begins when the daily average temperature is lower than 10℃ for five consecutive days, and ends when the daily average temperature rises above 10℃ for five consecutive days.

The characteristics of winter are as follows:

In the middle of winter, the sun's spirit retreats to the yin, life closes, and everything begins to harvest. "Autumn harvest and winter storage", everything is harvested in winter, and winter is the season to enjoy a bumper harvest and recuperate. In many areas, winter means silence and desolation. When the cold current strikes, living things will reduce their life activities, many plants will shed leaves, animals will choose to hibernate, and some are called hibernation.

Beginning of winter, together with beginning of spring, Changxia and beginning of autumn, is called "Sili", which is a seasonal solar term. Four seasons alternate throughout the year, and "four stands" means the rotation of four seasons, reflecting the changing laws of phenology and climate, such as spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage. Beginning of winter has started the winter in Tibet, and its climate has gradually changed from dry autumn to rainy and cold winter.

China's low latitudes (southern regions) are characterized by abundant precipitation, abundant sunshine, small temperature difference between winter and summer, and obvious seasonal changes in sunshine, precipitation and other climatic factors. There is little rain in the north, and the temperature difference between winter and summer is large. With the change of seasons, the temperature also changes obviously.