Qixi Festival, the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Of course, it was called because there was a foreign Valentine's Day in later generations, and it was hyped up by merchants selling chocolates, flowers, and the like.

Anyway, Wu Yuanqing didn't know this concept before he was twenty years old.

Moreover, the Qixi Festival is called many begging festivals, Qiqiao festivals, and the birthday of the seventh sister, but no matter how it is called, its main meaning is to pray for blessings, which is regarded as the women's day in ancient China.

In the earliest days, the women of the mortal world begged the Weaver Girl for wisdom and skill in the courtyard on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, so they were called "begging Qiao".

It is also the first meaning to be given.

When he got home, Wu Yuanqing didn't care too much when he saw that a wooden building was being built in the courtyard where the Yang family was.

The seventh day of the seventh month

When he got up early in the morning, Wu Yuanqing saw the eldest and second girls and the Yang family, as well as the big and small maids, and the servants and maids all changed into their latest and best clothes.

One by one, they were smiling, laughing, laughing, and having fun.

The building in the courtyard where the Yang family is located has also been built, more than three zhang high, two zhang long each other, divided into two layers, all wrapped with colored silk on the top, the flowers and greens are very good-looking.

The Yang family also gave more rewards, and the meals of the maids and servants at noon were a few points better than usual, making it look like the New Year, but they were all vegetarian because they had to fast.

Poor Wu Yuanqing can only follow the vegetarian diet because his mother and two younger sisters want to fast, and it is very light.

This made him, who has always had a heavy mouth, taste like chewing wax.

As for it, it is so grand, Wu Yuanqing, who has basically never lived the Chinese Valentine's Day, doesn't understand it.

Wu Yuanqing thought that this was the Qixi Festival of the Tang Dynasty, so he was wrong.

When it was dark, Wu Yuanqing found that at this time, people attached much more importance to Qixi than he thought.

Pomp!

It's definitely a grand occasion comparable to the New Year.

The entire Guogong Mansion, more than 20 courtyards before and after, all the eaves, courtyard walls, every three or four steps, there is a lantern hanging.

Mainly red, and other lanterns are all lit up in every corner of the palace.

In Yang's courtyard, there is a huge low table, which is full of melons and fruits of all kinds that can be found, and a small incense burner is placed in front of it.

There are also offering tables in the courtyards where the maids and servants live, and although the melons and fruits on them are not as good as those in the Yang family's courtyard, they are also the best they can come up with.

After burning incense in front of the low table in the courtyard, Yang led the family to climb the Cai Lou, and as soon as they entered the second floor, they saw that a smaller offering table had been set up, which was also full of melons and fruits, and there were even two kinds of wine, grapes suitable for girls and three mulberries suitable for men.

After burning incense again

Sit down

Yang took out seven golden needles and tied them in a row on a piece of golden silk nanmu, which, according to Yang, was used by her since she was a child.

After arranging up, Yang held the wooden board to the moonlight and passed the kneaded five-colored threads through the seven holes in turn.

The moonlight was dim, but fortunately, there were many lanterns hanging upstairs, and Yang pointed the five-color line at the pinhole without sticking to the hollow wall of the hole, and each hole of the seven-hole needle was hollow.

After the demonstration, it was the turn of the eldest girl, and the little girl also held a seven-hole golden needle, but it was much larger than her mother's, and the pinhole was naturally larger, which Yang deliberately made in order to make it easier for the two daughters to string.

Although the pinhole is bigger than the mother, the eldest girl is a child after all, and I don't know how much worse than the mother's kung fu to thread the needle.

When I got to Erya, it was much more difficult to wear, and such a big needle was almost pressed on my face, but I couldn't wear it with my little hand pinching the color line.

The anxious little girl stamped her feet and looked at her mother pitifully.

Yang didn't mean to help in the slightest, this matter can only be done by Er Ya himself, and he can't fake others.

Seeing that Erya turned his gaze to himself, Wu Yuanqing shook his head helplessly and said that he couldn't help it.

Seeing that the eldest brother refused to help him, Erya had no choice but to give up, and continued to pinch the colored thread to deal with the pinholes with a deflated mouth.

For a long time, Wu Yuanqing ate more than half a watermelon, and Erya wore a seven-hole needle.

This is a ritual that belongs to women, the hollow through the seven-hole needle means that the woman will be a clever person in the future, of course, this does not mean that there is no hollow through there is no begging to be clever, but the more hollow through, the more begging is more clever.

Although the two little girls did not pass through the hollow, Yang still smiled happily, hugged the eldest girl and the second girl in his arms, touched his head, and pinched his face, and praised two sentences by the way.

It's nothing more than that my daughter is so smart and skillful, what will happen in the future.

After making out for a while, Er Ya broke free from her mother's arms, ran to the place where she was sitting just now, picked up a small round box from the ground, and shook it at her mother first.

When the eldest girl saw it, she also ran to the place where she was sitting and took out a box of the same size.

After the two little girls opened the box, Wu Yuanqing realized that what was placed inside was actually a little spider, and it was all caught by the two little girls themselves.

Of course, it is the business of the subordinates to find the spiders, and they sit on nothing more than picking the spiders found by the subordinates into their boxes with small sticks.

This is already commendable, not to mention that the little girl is very bold, and the little insects are not very afraid, but the big girl is much more timid, usually she has to shout twice when she sees a worm, and she dares to catch a spider, so that Wu Yuanqing doesn't know what to say, but it can also be seen that they attach importance to Qixi Festival.

Spider Joy is another way to beg.

Catch the spider and put it in the box, until dawn opens; Seeing the cobwebs as dense is a coincidence. The secret ones have many clever words, and the rare ones have few clever words.

The more webs you catch in the box, the more wisdom and dexterity you have begged for, and vice versa.

Let everyone take a look, and the two little girls carefully put their boxes on the lid, and then ate melons and fruits, drank grapes and chatted, and talked about their wishes.

Of course, this night, it is naturally impossible to spend it with your own family.

The street outside is really lively, and you can hear the noise outside on the color building.

The eldest girl and the second girl have already made an appointment with Xiangcheng Changle to worship the Weaver Girl in a restaurant in the city that belongs to Cui Tingshi's family.

"Worshipping the Weaver Girl" is purely a matter for young girls and young women.

That is, a group of girls or young women who play well get together and set up a table under the moonlight, on which are placed tea, wine, fruits, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other offerings; There are a few flowers, bunched of red paper, inserted in the bottle, and a small incense burner is placed in front of the flowers. Make an appointment to worship the young women and girls of the Weaver Girl, fast for a day, stop bathing, and come to the host's house on time, and after burning incense in front of the desk, everyone sits around the table together, eating peanuts and melon seeds on the one hand, and silently reciting their own thoughts towards the Weaver Girl constellation. For example, girls who want to be beautiful or marry a wishful man, young women who want to have a noble son early, etc., can pray silently to Vega. Play until midnight.

Halfway through the hour, that is, at eight o'clock, the eldest girl and the second girl said goodbye to their mother and prepared to go to the appointment.