Ten days are left for the Chinese Valentine's Day. The Chinese Valentine's Day is endowed with the beautiful love legend of the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", and it has become a festival symbolizing love, and is therefore considered the most romantic traditional festival in China. Poems about Chinese Valentine's Day have emerged in endlessly since ancient times. There is a chapter in "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Dadong" of the Zhou Dynasty: "The weaver girl is standing on the other side, and she has seven pillows all day long. She is looking at the morning cows, and she does not put them in the box." In the Han Dynasty, "The river is clear and shallow, and it is a few degrees apart. It is full of water, The pulses do not meet.” During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi's "Yan Ge Xing" said "The Morning Cow and the Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance, how can you be limited to the river beam?" and then during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Tong's "Altair is far away. The Han girl is on the bright river." During the Tang and Song Dynasties, he wrote about Chinese Valentine's Day. There are the most poems, and Du Mu's "The sky is as cold as water at night, I sit and watch Altair and Vega." It is the unrequited love of the palace maid. Li Shangyin "Strives to never see her again in this world in exchange for coming back every year." This is in memory of his late wife. There is also Li Qingzhao's "The magpies ride on the star bridge, we only meet after many years, and we are separated from each other, so don't hate the poverty." Qin Guan's "If the love lasts for a long time, how can we stay together day and night". Relatively speaking, there were fewer poems about Chinese Valentine's Day in the Ming Dynasty, such as De Rong's "The Weaver Girl leads the cows to send the sunset, and the crane bridge is long before I can see it." Then again, Gu Taiqing in the Qing Dynasty wrote, "The new autumn is a leap, the magpie bridge is on the bridge again, and the world begs for cleverness twice." Countless literati in ancient and modern times wrote hundreds of poems.
If the annual meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is the bridge built by magpies. It is better to say that the poems of many immigrants and poets over the past thousands of years have turned into a living magpie bridge.
Although these literati chanted "Qixi Festival" in different words and sentences, most of them followed these three themes. One is the envy of wanting but not getting. One is the sorrow that joy is too short. Another one is the long-lasting love that has been forgotten in the world. The first two have been written by more people, but the latter one is the most direct and meaningful one written by Qin Guan.
Du Mu's "Autumn Evening" is a typical type of work that is sought but not obtained and envied. The first two sentences of this poem describe a picture of life in a deep palace. On an autumn night, the white candles gave off a faint light, adding a dark and cold tone to the picture on the screen. At this time, a lonely person The palace maid was beating the fireflies flying around with a small fan. Fireflies always grow in those desolate places among the grass and mounds. In the courtyard where the palace maids live, there are actually fireflies flying. You can imagine the desolation of the palace maids' lives, and the movements of the palace maids fluttering at the shadows can be seen. He was very lonely and bored. He had nothing to do, so he had to entertain her lonely years by fluttering fireflies. At the same time, he seemed to want to drive away the loneliness and loneliness that surrounded him. The small light fan in the hand of the palace maid was originally used to restore interesting conversations in summer but is useless in autumn. Autumn fans are often used to describe abandoned wives in poems. Therefore, team battles are often associated with women who have fallen out of favor. The third sentence and the fourth sentence But the night had fallen, the chill was coming, and it was time to go into the house and go to bed, but the palace was still sitting on the steps, looking up at the sky and the stars Altair and Vega on both sides. The palace maid looked at the morning glory for a long time, and the Weaver Girl didn't want to sleep even late at night, because the story of the morning glory and the weaver girl touched her heart, reminded her of her unfortunate life experience, and also made him yearn for true love. It can be said that the story of the morning glory and the weaver girl touched her heart. I'm looking up at him with all my thoughts. On the surface, this poem is about the loneliness and resentment in the life of a frustrated palace maid. In fact, it also writes about the palace maid's envy of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl because she cannot get true love.
Li Shangyin's "Qixi" can be said to be a typical sad type of happiness that is short-lived. This poem was written by the author on the night of July 7th in the lunar calendar. He looked up at the sky and thought about the scene of the Cow Girl getting together. He couldn't help but think of his beloved wife who died early, so he wrote this poem to commemorate his deceased wife. The first two sentences describe the beautiful scene of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting in the sky. The Weaver Girl has already crossed the river and walked out of the Fengwo, leaving the burial mountain to meet the Cowherd. The Crow Birds all withdrew after completing the task of repairing the fields and bridges. The poet couldn't help but think of the fact that his beloved wife died early, leaving him alone in the world and never being able to see her again. So the poet sighed deeply in the last two sentences, longing to be like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, who could meet his deceased wife once a year. He wrote about Wang Qi's extreme separation between heaven and man, and the confusion of yin and yang. He lamented that the farewell on earth was worse than the annual meeting in heaven, which clearly expressed the emotion of mourning. The happy time with my wife is always so short. The misery of being left alone in the world makes time so long. Rather than parting ways in this world and never seeing each other again, I long for a reunion in heaven but can't get it once a year.
The last type of poem about long-lasting love in the rivers and lakes should be Qin Guan's "Magpie Bridge Immortal". There is a lot of controversy over who Qin Guan wrote this poem. Some say it was Qin Guan who expressed his love for Changsha, while others say it was done for his wife Xu Wenmei. Some people say that it was given to the official prostitute Yue Yan, and some even say that it was written by Wang Chaoyun, the rare "little mistress" who had a crush on him. Regardless of who it was written for, let’s first take a look at what the poem actually says. This poem is divided into two parts: upper and lower. Going up to the palace, the delicate clouds make tricks, the flying stars spread hatred, the silver and Han are far away in darkness, the golden wind and jade dew meet each other, and they are even better, and there are countless people in the world. The soft and colorful clouds change into many beautiful and clever patterns, showing the craftsmanship and exquisiteness of the Weaver Girl. But such a beautiful person cannot live a beautiful life with his beloved. Those shining stars seem to be conveying their sorrow and hatred, flying across the sky. Next, I wrote about Weaver Girl. The Milky Way is darkened by the Milky Way, which separates two people who love each other. How difficult it is to meet each other. They walked up and down the sky and traveled thousands of miles to meet each other.
Next, the poet Yan opened his pen and ink, praising with emotional comments that once the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will be better than others, and there are countless people in the world. A pair of lovers who have been separated for a long time met on the bank of the Milky Way on a golden night. This beautiful moment is worth meeting thousands of times in the world. The poet enthusiastically praised an ideal, holy and eternal love.
When we go downstairs, our love is as tender as water, and the good times are like dreams. We can’t bear to look at the Magpie Bridge on our way back. If our love lasts for a long time, how can we stay together day and night? The friendship between two lovers is as gentle and lingering as the silent flowing water. Reminiscing about the good times, they passed by like a dream, and then they met and separated again. How can it not be heartbreaking. The Magpie Bridge where we had just met suddenly became the way to separate from my lover and return home. I didn't say that I couldn't bear to leave, but I said that I couldn't bear to leave. How can I see that the way back from Magpie Bridge is graceful and full of infinite feelings of farewell and infinite sad tears? Looking back on the tryst during the wedding day, I doubted whether it was true or false, it was like a dream or an illusion. When we went to the Magpie Bridge to say goodbye, our love was at its peak. Finally, a high-pitched voice broke out. If the love between the two lasts for a long time, how can they stay together day and night? These two sentences by Qin Guan reveal the true meaning of love: Love must withstand the test of long-term separation. As long as we can sincerely love each other, even if we are separated all year round, it is much more valuable than the vulgar taste of being together day and night. As the saying goes, the short time of staying together is not as long as the long time of forgetting each other in the world.