Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Peach blossoms drift with the tide every day. What does it mean to fall in love with mountains and seas on Tanabata night?

Peach blossoms drift with the tide every day. What does it mean to fall in love with mountains and seas on Tanabata night?

Peach blossoms follow the water every day, and what is the meaning of mountain and sea love on Qixi night is introduced as follows:

This sentence comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran's "Deer Gate Night Song", which means that peach blossoms slowly flow away with the running water. On the night of Tanabata, the mountains and seas are filled with the affection of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

This sentence expresses the poet's feelings and thoughts about love, as well as his imagination and yearning for the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata Night.

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiaoqi Festival, Qixi Festival, Qiaoxi Festival, Niuniupo Day, Shuangqi Festival, etc. It is a traditional folk festival in China, which is the birthday of Qi Jie in the traditional sense. Because the sacrificial ceremony was held on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata. It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the seven sisters, pray, seek skillful art, sit and watch morning glory and weave stars, pray for marriage and store water on Qixi.

After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which has become a festival symbolizing love, regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and even produced the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

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The Origin of Valentine's Day in China;

Qixi Qiqiao originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty records that "women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles on July 7 in the building, and everyone wears them", which is the earliest record of begging for cleverness in ancient literature we have seen.

In later Tang and Song poems, women's begging for cleverness was repeatedly mentioned. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian wrote a poem "The stars are bright and the pearls are bright, and Gong E is busy begging for cleverness". According to "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", every time Emperor Taizong and his concubines held a banquet in the Qing Palace on Tanabata, the ladies-in-waiting begged with their own ingenuity. This custom is also enduring among the people and passed down from generation to generation.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qiaqiao was quite grand, and there was also a market in Beijing that monopolized Qiaqiao goods, which was called Qiaqiao City by the world. Song He's series "Talking about Drunken Weng" said: "Tanabata, the property is a gimmick. From July 1 ST, horses and chariots were swallowed, and three days before Chinese Valentine's Day, horses and chariots were not allowed to pass, and they stopped driving again and again until the night. "