Tanabata Beggar Wangyue Put a river light a romantic and mysterious festival 丨 Our festival · oral folk customs

Cover reporter Li Yuxin

"The night of the sky is cool as water, and the glory of the glory is watery." The wind scratched in the ear was also sultry. In the midsummer, the Qixi Festival has arrived as appointment. Shortly after the Qixi Festival, the first solar term in autumn was about to usher in autumn.

Tanabata, a romantic traditional festival. In today's impression, this festival is always related to love, and it is entrusted to people's longing for beautiful emotions. But in ancient times, this festival also focused on begging and blessings, and was a comprehensive festival with women as the main body.

Begging in the moon, clever needles, and spiders should be clever ... If you pass through to hundreds of years ago, you can see on the night of the Qixi Festival and the stars in the sky. Fruit fruit, surrounded by the table of sacred wax, silently might be a greeting to bury his heart and want to tell the weaver girl; or carefully throw a silver needle in a bowl filled with water. "This custom has been circulating for thousands of years. The old girls could be described as unprecedented. They rely on their sisters to teach and passed on for a long time." Liu Xiaochang, a folk expert, said.

Qixi Festival in film and television dramas

Begging in the month

Begging to the weaver girl

"Begging festival can be said to be a romantic and mysterious festival in the traditional festival." Compared with the "Tanabata" propaganda of businesses in the streets and alleys in the streets, Liu Xiaochang is more willing to bring the festival on July 7th of the lunar calendar. Called "Qiqiao Festival". Because this festival not only contains the beautiful legend of the cowboy weaver girl, but also the beautiful wish of working women, so it is also known as the "Beggar Festival" and "Daughter's Day". And "begging" refers to "begging for skills and wisdom."

"The mystery of Qiqiao Festival is that being able to participate in the holiday time and participants are specific." Liu Xiaochang said that the Qiqiao Festival is an exclusive festival in the women in traditional Chinese festivals. On the July 7th night of the lunar calendar, the girls were begging for marriage in addition to the weaver girl begging for clever hands.

Qixi Festival in film and television dramas

Wearing needle begging, happy spider should be clever, acupuncture and cleverness ... For thousands of years, the way of begging has also developed a variety of options. Among them, the trick should be a well -known way, and this custom has also been performed in many film and television dramas.

"On the night of the Qixi Festival, the girls often have to get a clean bowl. At 12 noon, the bowls are filled with bowls of water in the small tea table in the courtyard, so that the sunlight is cooked in the bowl. Please ask the bowl of water that has been exposed for a long time, and then put the embroidered needle used by women's red on weekdays, and gently place it on the water surface in the bowl. "The magical thing is that the root flashes The cold -light iron needle can really float on the water. At this time, in the lining of candlelight and moonlight, a petal or strange pattern will appear at the bottom of the bowl, which is constantly changing. "At this time, the girls laughed at joy and praised each other."

In the ancient book "Emperor Jing Scenery", it is also recorded that at the bottom of the water needle shadow "with a cloud of clouds and birds and beasts, there are children and scissors of water eggplant, which is called begging; Such as silk, straight like shaft wax, this clumsy signs. " It means that the needle shadow appears under the water, if it is in various shapes, is "coincidental"; if it is straight, it is "begging" failure.

The axis of Qiqi Qiao Qiao Qiao, Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the Palace Museum Collection

Jiang'an River Lantern in the River

Candlelight wave light intercourse

Liu Xiaochang said that not only the custom of begging Qiao has passed on for thousands of years, but also on the banks of the Jiang'an River in Chengdu, southwest, there is also a long river that has also gone through the years, that is -letting the river light.

In the impression of ordinary people, the lantern lamp seems to be the custom of the lunar calendar, which is the custom of the Zhongyuan Festival. However, Liu Xiaochang said that on the Mid -Autumn Festival and the Tanabata Night, the spectacular scene of candlelight can also be seen in the Jiang'an River.

"In the Qiqiao Festival, the main girls and new daughter -in -law are the customs of the river lights. Exquisite paper river lights, some are still on the river lights, and write a word for good love and happy life in their hearts. "On the night of the Qixi Festival, I saw them ignited a carefully made river light, and used it. Gently put their hands into the flowing water of the waves. Many women prayed silently while letting go of the river lights. After the river lights were released, they still stood on the river for a long time and did not want to leave.

Song Li Song's "Han Palace Begging Map Page" Palace Museum Collection

"I saw them looking around a bright river light, floating on the water, the river surface sparkled, the stars flickered, the river lights from near and far away, and finally disappeared between the sky of the night sky. "Liu Xiaochang depicted, the hundreds of thousands of river lights, with the fluctuations of the river, continued to drift, and fused with the waves of the Jiang'an River, which was very spectacular.

"Putting the river lights and the river lights, let's throw it tomorrow today. The obscure all flows, and the Fuzawa is coming." This sentence that has been circulating in the population of Chengdu is also for the river lights under the Jinhua Bridge on the Jiang'an River. The most vivid description of a custom.

- END -