Fangzheng continued. "That's right. Today is the Great Cold. It's the day when the world is sealed in ice. The ancients used to say, 'The villages will be well fed when the three whites are seen during the Great Cold,' 'Man and animals are uneasy when the Great Cold isn't cold,' 'The snow-whiteness of the Great Cold determines the bumper harvest,' and 'A lack of wind during the Great Cold implies dryness.' If there's no cold wind and it's not cold on this day, it's a disaster."
"But Master, I don't understand. With the winds blowing so heavily, freezing the entire land, how could there be a bumper harvest? I think that this is more like a disaster," Squirrel said.
