"July 7, the birthday of the seventh sister, begging Qiaoyi, making a wish."

Legend has it that the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month is the birthday of the seventh sister, and the seventh sister is actually the seventh daughter of Haotian God - "Weaver Girl", it is said that she is the goddess of weaving clouds and fog, so she has always been regarded as a guardian saint by textile workers, women, and even couples and children.

In the Southern Dynasty's "Yin Yun Novel", it is said: "There is a weaver girl in the east of Tianhe, and the son of the emperor of heaven." Every year, he works hard and weaves into a cloud brocade clothes, and his appearance is flawless. The emperor took pity on his solitude and allowed him to marry the Hexi Morning Glory, and then abolished the weaving after marriage. The Emperor of Heaven was angry and ordered to return to Hedong, but made an annual meeting. ”

The date of this annual meeting is also the seventh day of July of the Weaver Girl's birthday, and only on this day, the Weaver Girl and his lover Cowherd can come to both sides of the Milky Way, step on the colorful bridge made by the magpies with their bodies, grind their ears and temples on the bridge, and snuggle up for a short time.

This kind of poignant love story has always been widely welcomed by the general public, and it is even more popular in the romantic and amorous Song Dynasty, and it has reached an unprecedented height in Tianshui with the prosperity of the Qixi Festival, becoming one of the most important festivals in the hearts of the people.

As the descendants of the silkworm Cong clan, the people of Chengdu have been weaving brocade since ancient times, and they certainly attach more importance to the festival of their own patron saints.

Every year on this day, all the children and girls of the city, rich and poor, are required to wear new clothes. The wealthy and noble families will also hold a feast on the high-rise mansion to appreciate the festival, and set up incense cases and wine fruits in the courtyard, so that the female relatives of the family can look at the moon and worship the family, pray for a happy marriage, a happy family, and ingenuity, which is called "begging for skill". After that, the ladies will take some small spiders, in a small box of gold and silver, open the box early the next morning to see its web, if the silk is round and dense, it is considered "coincidence".

There are also various lantern festivals and night markets on the streets, and the city is lit up with lights, which is as lively as celebrating the New Year.

Every year on this day, the government will also set up a banquet in Daci Temple to entertain the dignitaries, squires and elders in the city, to show that the country is peaceful and prosperous, and the monarchs and ministers are happy with the people.

The incumbent Chengdu prefect Guo Zai took office last year after the more good governance, ordered all the official and private gardens in the city to be opened in major festivals, for the people to enjoy, so that the people of Chengdu who already love amusement can not help but be happy, have clapped their hands and praised, and Qixi as one of the most important days of the people of Chengdu, naturally it can also be called a major festival, so this year's Qixi Festival, Chengdu has also become different from the past.

In the past, on the day of Qixi Festival, Chengdu will be lively in the evening, but today it is full of people before the time of Shen, most of the residents in the city have hurriedly used lunch, and then the family mobilizes to go out to enjoy the garden and view the scenery, the street is crowded with people, tourists are weaving.

A pair of red men and green women walked side by side with lotus flowers in their hands, passing through the streets and alleys, going back and forth between nearly 30 official and private gardens in the city, envying others who don't know how to go; There are also some girls who are still waiting to be in the boudoir, following behind their father and mother, quietly looking at the handsome young man passing by with shy eyebrows, fantasizing in their hearts which will be their lover.

There are more prodigal sons, who are seen to gather on the side of the road and make loud noises, or chant poems against each other, or frolic and laugh, in order to attract the attention of passing women, if there are really beautiful women who are moved by their rhetoric or jokes and stop to listen, one by one they will be excited with red faces, eyes shining, in order to further capture the hearts of beautiful women, and then compose a dewy marriage, but also do not hesitate to search the intestines and belly to display all their talents, and the degree of seriousness is comparable to participating in scientific examinations.

Although it is not the season of a hundred flowers blooming, but the street people hold lotus flowers, women have flower hairpins on their heads, shops along the street are hanging lights, and the big families also open their front doors, showing passers-by the Qiqiao Gong case and the color building arranged in the front yard, all kinds of "flowers" are intertwined, and the Jinguan City is decorated with a flowery appearance!

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Occupy the vicinity of Daci Temple, which occupies the small half of the east city of Chengdu, has always been one of the most prosperous areas in the city, there is a small river in the south of the temple, the name is "Xie Yuxi", at this time the streets on both sides of the river bank are bustling, shoulder to shoulder scene.

On the south bank of Xie Yuxi, the street name is Guan Street across the bank from Daci Temple, there are many shops on the street, at this time, the people on the street are endless, and most of the customers in the store are naturally surplus, and the business is prosperous.

However, a small and narrow shop sandwiched between the pavilions and pavilions on the street is full of doors at this time, and it looks very eye-catching against the backdrop of the surrounding lively scenes.

There is a wooden sign on the left outside the door of this store, with four square characters on it - "Su Jia Ya Ji", which turned out to be a family tooth shop. Looking towards the store, I saw a three-foot-wide square table in the middle, and a man with a clear face sitting behind the table, at this time he was frowning, with a sad face, if the neighbors passed by the door and saw the expression of the man inside, they would definitely sigh sympathetically in their hearts, it seems that Su Daya has not opened today, what day is this?

Su Daya watched the sun gradually set outside the door, and his heart became colder and colder, this has not been open for almost half a month, I thought that there would be many people on the street today, and there will be people patronizing, so I made up my mind to keep the store for a day, and for this reason, I also refused the request of the ink girl to let her accompany her to visit the West Garden, who knew that after sitting here for a day, there was no half a figure coming to the door, what a bleak scene.

Alas, it's also my own impatience to make a fool, today is the Qixi Festival, most of the people outside are going out for the garden to enjoy the scenery, shopping is also to eat, drink and have fun, at most buy some clothes and shoes, rouge gouache and other things, how can anyone come to rent a house to find a job on this kind of day, it is better to close the door early now, go back to take the ink girl to visit the garden. Thinking so, Su Daya stood up and prepared to close the door, but unintentionally caught a glimpse of the neighbor Hao Erniang's family walking in front of the store, and saw Hao Erniang looking at him with disdainful eyes, and walked over without saying hello, Su Daya suddenly remembered the face of his mother-in-law.

If you close the door and go home like this, presumably the mother-in-law at home will not give a good look, after all, it has been half a month since she got money home, and if she goes back empty-handed today, maybe she will sleep on the ground again tonight. Su Daya's face darkened, and he sat down again.

Wait, maybe someone will come to the door later, presumably other tooth shops are closed today, if someone rents a house to find a job at this time, they can only come to me.

Su Daya comforted himself, but his thoughts couldn't help spreading. Mother-in-law, she is also anxious if she doesn't have a good face every day, Mo Yatou was married the year before last, but she hasn't married anyone yet, isn't it because I Su Daya has no money. If I can give her a decent dowry, the people who come to ask for marriage will definitely be able to line up from here to the Great East Gate.

I want to think that when Han girl and Lu, their own tooth shop business is booming, the person who came to propose marriage almost stepped through the threshold of the family, our in-laws and two carefully selected, only to give her and the north of the city Zhangjia Lang to marry, that Zhang Lang is honest, the family's medicinal materials business and do big, in order not to let Han girl after the door to be wronged, we bought her nearly 50,000 yuan of field jewelry, which made her marry beautifully, sure enough, the two of them were harmonious after marriage, and they added Ding one after another.

But over the years, business has become more and more difficult to do, the store is getting more and more deserted day by day, and if it goes on like this, next year's rent will not be paid.

If you don't give in, join the Narauszi Tooth Merchant Guild? But if you join the guild, you have to do things according to their rules, not to mention the same anger to bully customers and pull up the commission, but also to say that the murderous house that has died is a feng shui auspicious house to sell to customers, I Su Daya has been a tooth person in Chengdu Mansion for half a lifetime, and has always been based on the principle of fairness and integrity, how can I do this kind of pickled and lack of morality!

The dim afterglow fell on the square table through the door frame, Su Daya looked at the sky, estimated that it had passed two quarters, sighed, and decided to accept the reality and close the door and go home.

Do you want to borrow some money from Wang Daju? Although seeing the evil mother-in-law of his family must have been scolded again, it is better than being kicked out of the bed and sleeping on the ground by his mother-in-law at night.

Su Daya just put the door in place, raised his feet and walked to the west, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him, he was startled, and looked at it to see that it was a young posterity in front of him, this posterity is quite tall, a head taller than Su Daya, who is more than five feet old, dressed in short brown, with thick eyebrows and thin eyes, I saw this posterity bow to Su Daya, and then cracked his mouth and smiled: "Su Da is economic, are you in a hurry?" I'm looking for a job. ”