The details of the ancient poem about begging for cleverness are as follows:
1. Original text and translation
1. Look at the blue sky tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day, and the Morning Cow and the Weaver Girl cross the river bridge. Every family begged for luck and looked at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads.
2. On the evening of the Chinese Valentine's Day, looking at the blue sky, it is like seeing the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting each other on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe". Every household is watching the autumn moon and begging for skill (threading a needle on the moon), and there are tens of thousands of red threads crossing it.
2. Background, introduction to the author
1. When he was young, Lin Jie was also very interested in the wonderful legends of Qiqiao, just like his mother or other women. Looking up at the brilliant Milky Way in the far-reaching night sky, and the two dazzling stars on both sides of the river, I looked forward to seeing the two stars get together, so I wrote the poem "Begging for Skills".
2. Lin Jie (831-847), courtesy name Zhizhou, was a native of Fujian and a poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was very smart when he was a child. He could compose poems at the age of six, and he could write a poem as soon as he started writing. He is also good at calligraphy and chess. He was only seventeen years old when he died. "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains two of his poems.
3. Appreciation
1. "Begging for Skillful Skills" is a poem written by Lin Jie, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of folk begging for skills during the Chinese Valentine's Day. The seventh night of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as "Qixi Festival", also known as "Daughter's Day" and "Girl's Day". It is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe" in the legend. Begging for skill means begging the Weaver Girl for a pair of skillful hands.
2. The most common way to beg for skill is to thread a needle into the moon. If the thread passes through the needle hole, it is called skill. "Look at the blue sky today during the Chinese Valentine's Day. The morning glory and the Weaver Girl are crossing the river bridge." "Bixiao" refers to the vast blue sky. The first two sentences describe the folk tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The annual Chinese Valentine's Day is here again, and people in every household can't help but look up at the vast sky.
3. This is because this beautiful legend touches kind and beautiful hearts, arouses people's good wishes and rich imagination. "Every family begs for skill and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads." The last two sentences explain the matter of begging for skill clearly, concisely and vividly.
4. The poet did not write down various wishes in detail in the poem, but left room for imagination, which further reflects people's joy during the festival.