1. Tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day, watch the blue sky and the morning glory and the weaver girl crossing the river bridge. ?Every family begs for luck and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads. ——"Begging for Skills" by Lin Jie of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: 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. Women in every family looked at the autumn moon and threaded needles to beg for skills, and there were tens of thousands of red threads threaded through them.
2. A magpie bridge stretches across the sky, and thousands of jade pendants pass by. ——"Qixi Festival" by Xu Ning of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: The fairy magpie built a small bridge over the vast Milky Way, and the ring made a light sound, and the exquisite figure of the mythical woman walked forward.
3. On a good night with two stars, you should be jealous of all the immortals if you are lazy in farming and weaving. Sister Juanjuan Yue's eyebrows are full of wrinkles, and she is even more helpless, and the wind is blowing the rain. Meeting each other hastily, arguing as if we have never seen each other again, disturbing the mood of separation again. The new joy is not as good as the old sorrow, but adds to it, and the new sorrow goes away. ——"Magpie Bridge Immortal·Qixi Festival" Song Fan Chengda
Translation: Tonight is a good time for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet. The couple who met are too lazy to be busy with farming and weaving. The lonely fairies are about to become jealous: the beautiful Sister Moon frowns, and Aunt Feng stirs up the wind and rain, and the heaven and earth are abnormal.
Meeting each other is in a hurry, and it is better not to meet again than to meet briefly, stirring up the sadness of parting again. The joy of meeting is never as much as the sorrow of long separation. On the contrary, it adds new sorrow to bring back to taste.
4. The thin clouds make tricks, the flying stars spread hatred, and the silver man is far away in darkness. Once the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win over countless others in the world. Tenderness is like water, good times are like dreams, and I can't help but look at the Magpie Bridge on the way home. If the love lasts for a long time, how can it last day and night? ——Qin Guan of the Song Dynasty, "Magpie Bridge Immortal·Xianyun Nongqiao"
Translation: The thin clouds are changing in the sky, the meteors in the sky convey the sadness of lovesickness, the distant and boundless Milky Way, I am quietly silent tonight Get through. Meeting on the Chinese Valentine's Day in the autumn wind and white dew is better than those couples in the world who stay together forever but seem to be inseparable.
The lingering tenderness is as continuous as running water, the reunion date is as ethereal and illusory as the shadow of a dream, and I can't bear to look at the Magpie Bridge Road when we part. As long as the love lasts until death, there is no need to covet the happiness of each other.
5. The distant Altair, the bright and clear river Han woman. The slender hands are used to make tricks. I can't make up my mind all day long, and my tears are like rain. The river is clear and shallow, only a few degrees apart. There is a room full of water, and the pulse is speechless. ——Anonymous "Nineteen Ancient Poems of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Far-Away Altair"
Translation: Look at the distant Altair and the bright Vega. (Weaver Girl) stretched out her slender and white hands and fiddled with the loom (weaving cloth), making a weaving sound. I didn't weave a piece of cloth all day long, and my tears fell like rain.
The Milky Way looks clear and shallow, playing with the loom (weaving cloth) and making a weaving sound. Although there was only a clear river between them, they could only stare at each other affectionately, but could not talk to each other in words.