The annotations and translations of Qiqiao are as follows:
1. The original text of "Qiqiao": Tonight on the Chinese Valentine's Day, look at the blue sky, and the morning glory and the Weaver Girl cross the river bridge. Every family begs for luck and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads.
2. Translation of the ancient poem "Qiqiao": During the Chinese Valentine's Day, people look up to the vast sky, as if they can see the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl crossing the Milky Way to meet on the Magpie Bridge. Every household is watching the autumn moon and begging for luck, and there are tens of thousands of red lines crossing it.
3. Note: Qiqiao Festival: an ancient festival on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Qixi Festival. It was an old custom that women would thread needles on this night when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, and learn skills from the Weaver Girl, which was called begging for skills.
Bixiao: refers to the vast blue sky.
Tens of thousands: many metaphors.
"Begging for Skillful Skills" is a famous poem by Lin Jie, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of begging for clever tricks during the Chinese Valentine's Day. It is an ancient poem with rich imagination and wide spread. The poems are easy to understand, involve well-known myths and legends, and express the girls' beautiful wishes of begging for wisdom and pursuing happiness. The seventh night of the seventh lunar month in the lunar calendar 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 meet on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe" in the legend.
In ancient times, the main folk activities on Qixi Festival were begging for luck. The so-called begging for skill means begging the Weaver Girl for a pair of skillful hands. The most common way to beg for skill is to thread a needle against the moon. If the thread passes through the needle hole, it is called skill. This custom was most popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Life of Lin Jie
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.
Lin Jie has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. He can compose poems at the age of six. He was only sixteen years old when he died. Two of his poems are preserved in "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty", among which "Qi Qiao" is a famous poem by Lin Jie, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of folk begging for Qiao Qiao during the Chinese Valentine's Day.
According to legend, when Lin Jie was a child, he was also very interested in such wonderful legends as 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".
The seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar 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. In the past, the main folk activity of Qixi Festival was begging for skillful hands. The so-called begging for skillful hands meant begging the Weaver Girl for a pair of skillful hands. The most common way to beg for skill is to thread a needle against the moon. If the thread passes through the needle hole, it is called skill.