The stars are adorned with pearlescent light, and the Qixi Palace is busy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Time flies by like a white horse, and it is the end of June in a blink of an eye, and the annual begging festival has finally arrived under Qin Si'an's expectations.

Because Qin Si'an has been living in the village before, and has not participated in the Qiqiao Festival temple fair in the real sense, so the annual Qiqiao Festival does not feel any difference, and she has not had this Chinese Valentine's Day in modern times, after all, the modern Qixi Festival has been almost weakened by the Valentine's Day on February 14, which is imported from February.

And this annual begging festival is a very important festival for the ancients of this era, and its grandeur is not inferior to the Spring Festival, because this begging festival is an important day for women, they will beg the goddess of weaving for wisdom and ingenuity on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, and ask for a happy marriage. I hope that God can make me as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and can have a happy marriage as I wish.

So she is looking forward to this year's Qiqiao Festival, because she heard that there are not only temple fairs on the day of the annual Qiqiao Festival, students worship Kuixing, women's needle-threading begging competitions, but also the annual Kui Xing List and Bixiao Ranking. What's even more interesting is that on this day, women can go out at night, they make an appointment with close friends in the boudoir, in groups of three or five, and when they see handsome men, they can enthusiastically throw a frangipani.

Regarding this theory of throwing flowers, the most famous is Wang Anzhi. I heard that Wang Anzhi once went out unintentionally that day, and was almost drowned by the flowers thrown by enthusiastic fans. Of course, this rumor is a bit exaggerated, but every time Qin Si'an thinks of this, he will lean forward and lean back with laughter, because it is rumored that he was attacked by a group of flowers, his face is extremely dark, and since then, he rarely goes out in July every year, alas, how big should the shadow area in this guy's heart be, so he avoids it like a snake and scorpion. Qin Si'an thought gloatingly.

Before July arrived, a market was opened on the street that specialized in begging goods, such as Qiaoguo, lotus pod, white lotus, red ling, flowers, happy eggs, window flowers, perfume and spices, nail dyeing serum, etc. It can be seen from the busy traffic and crowd that this begging festival is one of people's favorite festivals.

People generally start preparing for the festival on July 1 and do not end until the evening of July 7. On July 1st, Qin Si'an's mother took her to buy two new clothes, Meng Niang, who originally planned to buy rouge gouache for Qin Si'an, was tactfully dispelled by Qin Si'an, she would not use this ancient lead powder or anything, she must study this cosmetics when she has the opportunity in the future, after all, these will be indispensable for dressing up in the future.

Because they were going to worship the Weaver Girl that night, they went to buy tea, wine, fruits, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds), red candles and other offerings.

In a blink of an eye, it was July 6th, on this day Qin Si'an's second uncle's Sitian's Sitian, the third uncle's Sihua, Simeng came to her house, for this begging festival, they were also excited, because tomorrow is the begging festival, so they came here in advance, planning to stay for two days, and then go back after the begging festival.

On the evening of the sixth day, everyone set up the sacrificial table, put tea and wine, fruits, red candles, incense burners and other objects, Qin Si'an's mother Meng Niang took Si'an, Sitian, Simeng to burn incense to worship, and then the four of them gathered around the small table, eating peanuts and melon seeds, while chatting. Because Si Tian got married in the spring next year, her face was flushed with shame in the jokes of several people, and the marriage was decided, so she didn't pray for marriage in her heart, but silently prayed for her ingenuity and good luck in getting married.

Among the cousins, Simeng's personality is the most outstanding, she has always hoped that one day she can fly on the branch and become a phoenix, marry a rich and noble family, and from then on she will have no worries about food and clothing, even if she is a concubine, she is willing to be a concubine. Because of her personality, Qin Si'an didn't like her very much, so he didn't take her words much for a night.

It was lively until midnight, and only then did they disperse and go to bed.

On the day of July 7, Qin Si'an heard the sound of crackling firecrackers while she was still asleep, she quickly got up and cleaned up, and stood at the door of her house to watch the festival activities of students worshiping Kuixing, this July 7th is also Kuixing's birthday.

Kui Xing Wen, who wants to seek fame, especially revere Kui Xing, so he must worship on the day of Qixi Festival, praying for him to bless himself with good luck in the exam.

Kui Xing Ye is Kui Dou Xing, the Kui Star in the Twenty-Eight Nights, the first star of the Big Dipper, and also the Kui Star or Kui Head. In ancient times, the champion among the scholars was called "the corporal of the great kuitian" or "won the championship in one fell swoop", all because the kuixing was in charge of the examination.

People carry the statue of Kuixing, followed by a long line of gongs and drums, dragon dances and dragons, go around the city, and then stop in the largest school hall in the town, place the statue of Kuixing in it, pray for more students in the town, bring glory to the town, and then the students began to burn incense and worship, hoping that Kuixing can hear his own voice and achieve fame.

This activity of students worshipping Kuixing is expected to last for about two hours before it ends, and there is nothing special to look at, Qin Siping went out early, because the students will be waiting in the school hall to burn incense and make wishes. There was a temple fair in the afternoon, so Qin Si'an had a meal slowly, and then accompanied Sitian Simeng and them out of the door.

The temple fair is not big, but most of them are women walking, where women can buy frangipani to use at night, and can also go to the rouge gouache shop to do a nail art, in fact, the so-called nail art is to use the sap of the root of the plant, soaked into a cloth the size of a nail piece, and then paste it on the nail for coloring, and it can only be managed for a day or two. However, Qin Si'an thinks that this nail dye is much better than modern chemical nail water, although it has been a long time, and it is not as diverse and beautiful as modern nail art, but it is natural and harmless.

There are also some fat powder shops in the temple fair that directly apply makeup to the women, so as to charge fat powder and labor fees, and the most important thing is that the price is very kind, so many women from poor families will come to spend some copper plates to paint a beautiful makeup for evening activities.

Qin Si'an and the others came for this purpose.

"Look, this is this, I heard that the craftsmanship in this shop is very good, every woman who looks for it to put on makeup, no matter how bad her appearance is, can be transformed like a fairy daughter!" Qin Simeng said. She inquired when she came, hoping that she could put on a beautiful makeup today, and then it would be best if she could meet a rich boy in the evening. Qin Simeng couldn't help but think in her heart that she must live a prosperous life, wearing gold and silver, she was fed up with the poor life. She made up her mind in her heart.

"But there are a lot of people~" Qin Sitian said, anyway, she just went to join in the fun at night, it didn't matter if she wore makeup or not, after all, she was already engaged, so let her spend a lot of time waiting for her.

"It's a lot, or we don't melt. Qin Si'an looked at the long queue and said, it doesn't matter if she can't change or not, the reason why she agreed to come over is because she is just curious, now that the freshness has passed, she naturally can't afford to wait, the female guard is pleasing to herself, she has nothing to please herself, and she doesn't want to provoke.

"It takes about half an hour for two people to comb their hair and put on makeup, and there are four people in this shop, so it will be our turn in less than two hours. Qin Sihua thought for a while and said.

"What? So long? Then I won't wait, I'll go somewhere else first. Qin Sitian said.

"I'll go too. Qin Si'an also agreed with Qin Sitian's suggestion, she didn't want to spend it here, anyway, she hadn't thought about it before.

"I don't care, I'm going to wait anyway, if you don't want to wait, just go around, I'll wait." Qin Simeng shouted. Originally, I was worried that you would walk with me and steal my limelight, but now they don't want to make it themselves, she can't ask for it.

"In that case, Simeng and I will wait here, you go shopping first, and you will come here to find us in two hours. Qin Sihua said. Her age is one and a half years older than Qin Sitian, but she has never said that she is married, she is very anxious, she dresses up well at night, and it is good to find a good marriage.

"Okay, Si'an, let's go~" Qin Sitian took Qin Si'an to other areas of the temple fair after everyone made an appointment, she had a hard time coming out, but she had to take a good stroll.

"It's really worthy of two sisters, the eldest is willing to marry anyone, and the old and young always want to climb the high branches. After walking out of a distance, Qin Sitian pursed his lips and said with some sarcasm.

"......" is a poisonous tongue...... The corners of Qin Si'an's mouth twitched, and she glanced at Qin Sitian speechlessly, she really didn't know how she was going to answer.

"Let's go, there's a jewelry seller over there, it's beautiful, let's go take a look." Qin Sitian didn't care whether Qin Si'an answered or not, and pulled Qin Si'an to look at the jewelry with an excited face.

Unconsciously at the appointed time, when Qin Si'an and the others went to the agreed place, the makeup of the two of them was almost finished, not to mention, this craftsmanship is really good, at least these two people look a lot more beautiful than before now.

The fat powder is too heavy and the makeup is too mature, Qin Si'an couldn't help but comment in his heart, it seems that the modern finish is more beautiful!

After the two of them put on makeup, they went back to Qin Si'an's house together, and after dinner, they participated in the formal begging activities in the evening.