Why do people regard red beans as a symbol of love?

Without exception, influential traditional festivals in China have a material carrier, such as eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival and climbing mountains in the Double Ninth Festival. Just as the western Valentine's Day roses must be the carrier and medium to convey love, China Valentine's Day must also find the corresponding material carrier. At the third "China Red Bean Acacia Festival" folk forum, Chen Jiang, a researcher at Nanjing Museum, once pointed out that a festival must have a material carrier for people to eat, drink and have fun during the festival. There is no doubt that the carrier of Tanabata is acacia red beans.

Valentine's Day in China has been lingering for thousands of years since the Northern and Southern Dynasties. When the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl crossed the Tianhe River from the Magpie Bridge and held hands with each other, the lovesickness and love across time and space moved everyone. Today, Tanabata has been recognized as the Valentine's Day in China, and acacia red beans have also become the symbol of acacia love in China on Valentine's Day, which is equivalent to the "foreign Valentine's Day" rose.

The fame of acacia red beans spread far and wide, thanks to the four-character quatrain "Acacia" written by Wang Wei, a great poet in Tang Dynasty. "When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches. Take them home for my sake as a symbol of our love." This famous saying was written by Wang Wei to his good friend Li Guinian. Due to the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guinian was exiled to Jiangnan. Wang Wei gave this poem to him, expressing his deep affection for his friends. Later, people used the characteristics of red beans as bright as blood and as hard as diamonds to interpret their unswerving love. As a result, red beans became the symbol of love and the carrier of acacia. Open the ancient poems, there are many descriptions about acacia and red beans. Love of "red beans stained with blue cream, often acacia"; "Red beans in linglong dice, I don't know if I want to"; The heaviness of "red beans are ugly and full of acacia tears"; "Red beans are acceptable, and acacia is out of date" lasts forever ... Red beans contain the innocence and profundity of love and carry people's distant memories of acacia.

In fact, red beans are rich in connotation, which is not only a symbol of love and acacia, but also contains many beautiful feelings in the world, such as friendship, affection, homesickness, love for national conditions, teacher-student relationship and so on. Throughout the ages, whether it is literati, dignitaries or ordinary people, they are proud of owning and collecting red beans, which are often used as gifts between relatives, friends and lovers. For thousands of years, the custom of red beans has been formed. Acacia is the most beautiful, just like it is really hard to find, and it is the most touching to treat it with heart, so the world uses it to express shy thoughts, whether it is relatives, lovers or friends, all blessings, all sincerity, all true love and all true feelings.

Red bean love is a kind of magnetic field that passes through the soul, which will make you put the sentiment of attaching importance to love and righteousness throughout your life, and will also make you show your persistence in love and faith in life on the rings of years.

On the upcoming Valentine's Day in China on Tanabata, this beautiful day, I hope that lovers in the world will dye their deep love with the color of red beans, look for the traces of acacia together and feel the feelings of red beans!