冬至

THE SHORTEST DAY BY SUSAN COOPER 

So the shortest day came, and the year died,

And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world

Came people singing, dancing,

To drive the dark away.

They lighted candles in the winter trees;

They hung their homes with evergreen;

They burned beseeching fires all night long

To keep the year alive,

And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake

They shouted, reveling.

Through all the frosty ages you can hear them

Echoing behind us—Listen!!

All the long echoes sing the same delight,

This shortest day,

As promise wakens in the sleeping land:

They carol, feast, give thanks,

And dearly love their friends,

And hope for peace.

And so do we, here, now,

This year and every year.

Welcome Yule!

今天是冬至，南方人喜歡吃湯圓，北方人喜歡吃餃子。我是漂流海外的南方人，兩者都喜歡。

黑芝麻湯圓

 

 

所有跟帖： 

• 又見美味佳肴，大師之作！家家搗米做湯圓，知是明朝冬至天。北方冬至吃餃子，南方吃的是冬至團。團團圓圓。圓圓的湯圓，南瓜餅。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (486 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 06:00:41

• Came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away. -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 06:18:23

• To keep the year alive. when the new year's sunshine blazed -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 06:20:07

• We shouted, reveling...Hope for peace... -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 06:21:22

• 把吃玩出藝術品高度的，我看隻有司令了：）北方冬至餃子，南方冬至湯圓~~ -cicila- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 08:05:34

• 水禽兄總有美味佳肴，令人垂涎。 -唐宋韻- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 08:52:28

• 2nd-gen Chinese abroad are more attracted to that culture? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 09:25:25

• 欣賞您的美食，美麗的食品！ -lilly28- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2023 postreply 10:07:39