Notes on Qixi prose

Tanabata every year, now Tanabata. Valentine's Day in China is also called "Begging for Clevership". An old man in the countryside, who is over 60 years old, is sitting on the vest under an old jujube tree, shaking a lotus leaf fan, watching a crescent moon hanging on the west side of the branches, thinking back to the past of Qixi, and the teenagers are happy.

When he was just sensible, the elders shook their spinning wheels in the moonlight and pointed to the stars in the sky to tell him the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl. Later, on the night of Qixi, the girls next door would gather seven 17-year-old girls together for the "Beggar's Day" and eat jiaozi. There was a jiaozi with a copper coin wrapped in it. Whoever ate it was lucky, and then several sisters carried it around the yard in a sedan chair made hand in hand. Then they quietly went to the "Yaochi" to take a bath (the ponds and ditches around the village have water all the year round). When they take a bath by the water, they always send two little girls to stand nearby and watch the wind. Those children are always heckling with the blind and joining in the fun. At this time, those "kind mothers (elderly women who like to attend the begging festival)" always instigate several eleven-or twelve-year-old children to play the role of cowherd, quietly follow them and tell them that when they quietly jump into the water to play, they will shout: "This is the fairy's Biro skirt-hanging on the Tianhe Bridge! You run back while shouting, or you will be caught. " Then, three or four children quietly followed the "seven fairies". Go back to the original place after taking a shower. On the way back, step on some morning glory and grass to take back (step on it better first). Then put an incense burner in the center of the table, light a column of incense, and put four lighted candles around the incense burner. The "seven fairies" sit around the table, each population contains morning glory (trumpet facing outwards), and they form a circle with the grass, holding their hands together in the palm of their hands, closing their eyes slightly and praying for good luck. When the incense burns until the ash falls for the first time, it is arranged in turn from the birthday. So the seven fairies held the morning glory together and said, "Liu, Yang, when will you let me be the queen ..." Then they blew out the morning glory in their mouths one by one, and whoever buckled the morning glory on the incense could be the queen.

Then the second round: they tied the grass into a grass circle and put it in their mouths. Together, they said, "The bronze mirror is bright, the silver mirror is bright, and the husband and wife will respect each other like guests ..." Then they blew out the grass ring in turn, and whoever put the grass ring on the incense in the future will be distinguished.

After these procedures, any girl who gets ahead will always be praised by some "good mothers". Then, naturally, I will tell my own experience and some interesting things about the Begging Festival through hearsay. Some said: One year on Tanabata, seven girls took a bath by the lotus pond, and their clothes were taken away at once. Seven girls tied lotus leaves into a lotus skirt with cattail grass, tied a lotus flower on their heads, held a lotus flower in their mouths and covered their chests with two lotus flowers. When they came out of the water together, they walked on the lotus pond, just like hibiscus coming out of the water, like fairies coming down to earth. For a time, the cranes danced and the light was auspicious. Later, courtiers came into being from generation to generation in the countryside around here.

Others say: "On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day", when people's footsteps calm down, they can hear the voice of the cowherd and the weaver girl lying next to the ancient well under the grape trellis. It's very touching to see such a rare scene once a year.

At the age of ten, the rural old man took several children and became a cowherd on Qixi night. At that time, there was a "anthomaniac" man in the village who drove away girls when he saw them. The children all call him "flower madman". When the girls heard that "Flower Madman" was coming, they all dodged away in fear.

So several people quietly planned a practical joke. A big boy named "Er Flea" drowned. He pretended to be an anthomaniac, covered his head with a coat, jumped into the water and slammed at the girl. By the pond, he and several children shouted: "Flower madman is in the water-Flower madman has taken all his clothes …" So several girls ran into the water like little swans … So several children laughed loudly. Knowing that she had been cheated, the girl went back to the water and squatted down. A girl named "tomboy" said to "the second flea", you cover your head and know who you are. Do you want me to catch you without drowning you? Said and jumped on the "two fleas". The "second flea" saw that she was a tomboy. Knowing her strength, she dared to wrestle with boys and let a group of boys undress and cross the river. Seeing this, he jumped into the water and ran away.

Several children standing by the pond were afraid of being caught spanking and ran away with a smile.

Later, when I was old, I was ashamed to be scared away by the words "good mother" before I got close to Tanabata, and gradually moved away from the interesting things about "Jojo Festival" by my girlfriends.

When he was in junior high school 15 years old, he was the oldest in his class. Students, because the school is far away, some students live on campus. There is a big vegetable garden next to the playground behind the school. There is a pulley on the well. On the pulley is a huge grape rack made of four vines. At noon or evening in summer, he and some classmates always like to enjoy the cool and read books under the grape trellis.

On the night of "Qiaoqiao Festival", he told his classmates about his experience and many legends about "Qiaoqiao Festival".

He spoke so vividly that the students were fascinated.

After that, he remembered something and turned to his classmates with emotion: "Do you know when you feel happiest?" So the students around him stared at him. He said that the happiest moment I felt was the summer night when I was a child, and I liked the cool feeling of my mother fanning mosquito nets when I was awake. Then, after being bitten by a mosquito in her sleep, my mother took a bite of the little pimple bitten by a mosquito on her face, and it immediately itched and blinked to sleep, feeling very warm.

His words and intoxication deeply infected everyone around him.

Under the grape trellis next to the ancient well, they read and chat first, and then recite poems and poems that are required to be recited.

Late at night, the students returned to the dormitory one after another. Soon, the lights in the dormitory went out. In the end, only he and a girl were left, both of whom silently recited the text to be memorized. Two people occasionally look at each other, but neither seems to want to leave. They came up with it together. Tonight, we must listen to the voice of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

I don't know how long it was, and I don't know how late it was that night. Suddenly, he heard something in the well. He hurried down, climbed a few steps to the wellhead, lay on the edge of the wellhead, held his breath and silently listened to every subtle sound coming from the bottom of the well. Gradually, they seemed to hear the sound of someone stroking the water gently, and the sound of water dripping between their fingers made a slight "ding-dong" sound. At the same time, it is accompanied by a man's head-jar voice, which seems far away. It doesn't sound like it's intermittent ... She subconsciously moved to his side, as if she wanted to peek at the conversation between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl through his peeping tube.

Suddenly, as a seemingly speaking voice approached, both of them felt itchy and painful on their faces. His ninja itch moved to the wellhead and put his head into the wellhead to listen more carefully. She kept scratching her cheek. In order to calm down as soon as possible, he turned around and kissed the mosquito-bitten pimple on his cheek very quickly. He found a place and smoked. He quickly sucked up the pimples bitten by mosquitoes on her face. She felt very painful and relieved. When she calmed down and listened to the voice of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, he scratched his cheek impatiently. She held out her hand and put his head near him. She followed his example, kissing and sucking on his face. ......

Just then, their collars were lifted by a pair of big hands at the same time. They looked back and saw the head teacher standing behind them. ......