Today is April 4, 2022, Monday, the day before the Qingming Festival (also known as the Cold Food Festival).
On this day, it is customary to refrain from lighting fires and only eat cold food. Over time, customs such as tomb-sweeping, spring outings, swinging, cuju, hand-pulling, and cockfighting have gradually increased, and the Cold Food Festival has lasted for more than two thousand years, once known as the largest folk sacrificial day in China. The Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of the Han nationality named after a food custom. The origin of the Cold Food Festival, according to historical records: during the Spring and Autumn period, the nobleman Chong'er of the Jin state fled to other countries for nineteen years to escape chaos, and his minister Jie Zitui always followed him, never leaving his side; he even "cut his own flesh to feed his lord." Chong'er worked hard and became a famous ruler known as "Duke Wen of Jin." However, Jie Zitui sought no profit or official position and returned to seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. To force him to come out, Duke Wen ordered the mountain to be set on fire, but Jie Zitui resolutely refused to come out and ultimately perished in the flames. Duke Wen, moved by the loyalty of his minister, buried him in Mianshan, built a temple, and ordered a fire ban and cold food on the day of Jie Zitui's death to express his grief.
As for today, I cannot conclude whether I only eat cold food. On one hand, I haven't eaten yet, and on the other hand, there shouldn't be much cold food sold at school. — The time has come to 5 PM; I had the legendary super spicy beef hot pot rice noodles for lunch, which was actually not that bad. For a Sichuan person, it was just an average level of spiciness, but I was shocked to find such spicy food in Wuhan.
I suddenly realized that I wrote 400 words without getting to the main topic; I should summarize the events of March. The early spring weather in Wuhan is truly perplexing; to sum it up in one sentence, it's summer one moment and winter the next. Spring and autumn have long disappeared since the Warring States period. I was always ready to add or remove clothing, and in the end, it did not lead to a cold.
I attended a few classes of the Python elective course, which covered basic syntax and was somewhat boring, but I also gained some new insights. I bought a book titled "Python 3 Web Scraping Development Practice (Second Edition)" and read about one-third of it during my spare time. I also created a GitHub Repo, which I found quite interesting, and I should have no problem continuing with it.
At the end of the month, I took the midterm test for quantum mechanics, and I felt it went relatively well; the specific results will only be mentioned in next month's report. I hardly touched engineering drawing, but there are many deadlines for it in April, so I have to start studying. Also, I must complain about the courses on the basics of materials science, crystallography, and solid-state physics; the content of these three courses is almost identical, with repetitive discussions on unit cells and Bravais lattices, which is quite frustrating. The physical chemistry teacher, Li Yuan (not Emperor Gaozu of Tang), left a deep impression on me; he is one of the few teachers in college who speaks some real talk with undergraduates, so I have "noted him down."
In summary, March was relatively calm (is there a whirlpool hidden beneath the calm surface?), and starting in April, there have been exams and deadlines one after another. I always feel that this semester is passing a bit quickly; is it because this semester is short, or is it because as I get older, time seems to pass more quickly? owo