Chapter 19 6. Tenderness is like water, good times are like dreams

Qin Guan Qixi Festival is also Qiqiao Festival, a traditional Chinese Valentine's Day, with a romantic and tragic color.I don't know when it originated. It is said that the festival originated in the Han Dynasty, but the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is more distant in the past.Everyone knows that it was a romantic affair, the beginning of a period of April in the world, and the ending of a period of sad autumn wind.Fortunately, their love was not crushed into dust by fate. Time gave them an eternal distance and a chance to meet again.Once a year, there is no deadline, after ten thousand generations, maybe the green hills are old, the rivers and rivers are reversed, this promise will not be violated.

Love is like a tree, which blooms with happy flowers and bears unfortunate fruits, but this fruit is not tasted by one person alone.Therefore, when sorrow spreads endlessly, comfort also quietly grows.Today, not all Weaver Girls will have a Cowherd by their side, and not all Cowherds will have a Weaver Girl by their side.Even if there is, the real Milky Way is full of waves, and there will not be a magpie bridge to arrange for them to meet.This shore and the other shore are separated by a fleeting year that is neither long nor short, and the parting ferry cannot afford to meet each other.Life is like this, when someone loses, someone has it; when someone gathers, someone disperses.Qixi Festival is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the magpie bridge. They have been separated for a year in exchange for a reunion on this day.Therefore, it has nothing to do with those men and women in the world of mortals.

Just today, if you open the book that has been dusty for many years, you may still see a yellowed bookmark, which is a young memory.When they were young, there must have been many people who carefully copied Qin Guan's "Magpie Bridge Immortal" in small letters on bookmarks and sent them to those they liked.How beautiful a young dream is, even melancholy and regret are romantic.You can easily promise and say "I love you" as you like, just like a flower promises a grass, but the flower forgets that it will wither first.Just like a surging river, promising a lonely boat, it ignores its mission of living.Regardless of whether these promises will be fulfilled, we all miss the beauty of blurting out.As I grow older, I dare not make promises easily, fearing heavy promises, restraining myself and hurting others.

The person who wrote this "Magpie Bridge Immortal" was Qin Guan, known as the "Four Students of Sumen".His affectionate and graceful style of words created such an eternal swan song.Although Qin Shaoyou was very talented, he passed the three trials, and his career as an official was not smooth.However, Qin Guan's poems are full of romantic affairs. He likes to associate with courtesans, and he spares no effort to write down many beautiful lines for them, such as "Winning the brothel for a long time, but luckily keeping the name".In history, it is recorded that he had romantic affairs with many singing girls, and even had a touching love story with the talented Su Xiaomei.Although it is just a legend, their lives are beautiful and charming because of this legend.

Qin Guan, thousands of years ago, probably wrote this song "Magpie Bridge Immortal" on the day of Qixi Festival. "Slender clouds make cleverness, flying stars spread hatred, and silver men are far away in darkness." Here, a "crafty" and a "hate", write the sad story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the Qiqiao Festival, a sad encounter.The silver man separated them from life to life, and fate put them in two places. They could only look at each other at the ferry, and they couldn't hold each other's hands.There is no more hatred in the world than this.However, "When the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win, and there are countless people in the world"-Qin Shaoyou regards such a meeting as golden wind and jade dew, what a gorgeous and gentle word, just like this falls into their eyes.For him, it is a ray of passionate golden wind, for her, it is a clean jade dew.Such a graceful reunion, although once a year, is better than those couples who stay together all day in the world.

But I always disagree, what I think in my mind should be such a picture - they should have a simple thatched hut, a well in the fenced yard, a few vegetable fields, a lot of flowers and plants, and a few chickens .The gentle and ordinary Weaver Girl sits at home every day, lowering her eyebrows at the work in her hands, doing housework, and only knows how to give birth.And the simple and honest cowherd, who was farming in the farmland at sunrise, came back at sunset, carrying a small fish caught in the pond, or a hare caught under a tree.Under the kerosene lamp, a few members of the family happily ate delicious food or home-cooked side dishes.The days are uneventful, and their hearts are as clear as water. They may be superficial, but what they want is such a small interdependence, which is owned plainly.It's definitely not the annual golden wind and jade dew reunion, absolutely not.But no, even though they can be slaves of the world of mortals and servants of the world of mortals, they cannot be an ordinary couple as they wish.I saw Zhinu, in the misty heaven, polishing the rusty time to silver again and again, for the annual reunion of magpies.Then there is: "Tenderness is like water, and the wedding is like a dream. Bear with the magpie bridge to return!" They are lingering in the tenderness like water, intoxicated in the dream-like wedding, but they are afraid in their hearts. After a short encounter, they will set foot on the magpie bridge again the way back. The word "forbearance" makes the meager happiness begin to drop and sorrow again, and permeates the boundless sky.The magpie bridge has a long hatred, there is a time for coming, and there is also a time for returning.They can't cross the barriers of fate, and use one day of the year to exchange for a forever.

Therefore, they pretended to be unrestrained and restrained their sorrow and said: "If the two feelings last for a long time, how can they be together day and night." No, this is just Qin Shaoyou's view of love, and it is the Cowherd and Weaver Girl described by him.It's like the beautiful excuse he found for himself for a romantic affair, a kind of comfort for the helpless parting.I know that Cowherd and Weaver Girl, who have been waiting for thousands of years, no longer want to be greedy for the golden wind and jade dew reunion.I just want to guard each other's shallow temperature, each other's simple happiness, and see the world, every grass, every tree, every dust and dust.

How many people put love in their pockets in a hurry, and when they change their clothes, it means that they discard love casually.There are also people who grind their love into Duan inkstone and write it on rice paper, no matter how many dynasties they go through, it will never fade.There are just a few people who hide their love in their hearts, cultivate with their souls, and wait for the flowers of happiness to bloom season after season in the land of years. When I got up in the morning, there was a violent storm, and I secretly sighed in my heart, on the day of Qixi Festival, will this wind and rain delay the good time of the magpie bridge meeting?It seems that in the predestined destiny through the ages, all worries and longings are futile and superfluous.Outside the window at this time, there was a thin first-quarter moon, and the shadows of the branches on the grape trellis in the courtyard were entwined. I didn't sit on the bamboo chair and listen, because I didn't want to disturb it.Only in the quiet night, sip a cup of tea and smell the faint warmth derived from the mist.