Chapter 127: Qixi Festival
Ye Wen returned home, because Li Er had promised Ye Wen to make vaccines, and he would no longer have to supervise the construction of the pharmacy in the future, so Ye Wen also seemed very relaxed and happy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Come and kiss one." Ye Wen returned home very happily, hugged Lin Xiaomei, who was sitting on the sofa and watching TV, and said.
"Huh... Go away. "In broad daylight, where will Lin Xiaomei be intimate with Ye Wen, and she is seeing the wonderful places, where will Ye Wen be disturbed.
Ye Wen looked at the matchmaker with a hurt expression, and the matchmaker covered her mouth and smiled, looking helpless, and did not comfort Ye Wen.
Ye Wen wailed and buried his head in Lin Xiaomei's hair, breathing in the fragrance to soothe his wounded heart.
At the same time, in the palace, Li Er summoned Sun Simiao and other physicians and some female doctors to check his body with him and Empress Changsun, and also checked the body of the princes and princesses by the way. In the end, some problems were found, but fortunately they were not very big.
In the next few days, Ye Wen didn't have to go to the construction site anymore, but because he told Li Er to make the vaccine at home, he stayed at home all the time. At the same time, the Qixi Festival is also coming.
Qixi Festival, early in the morning, Lin Xiaomei and the matchmaker carried a ladder to look for something between the houses above.
"I caught one." The matchmaker caught what she wanted.
"I don't have it here." Lin Xiaomei didn't find it, and when she heard that the matchmaker had found it, she was a little disappointed.
If you want to say what they are catching, it is naturally catching spiders, and the Qixi Festival is not the same as later generations, treating this day as Valentine's Day.
On the day of the Qixi Festival, people have a variety of activities, among which there is a "happy spider".
In the Han Dynasty, people worshipped the stars on the day of Qixi and put melons and fruits in the courtyard. Because it is summer, these melons and fruits inevitably attract mosquitoes. And after the night, these mosquitoes attract spiders again. The spider then made a web on the melon and fruit, and the next day, people got up to check the cobweb, if there is no or very sparse, then the melon and fruit is a stupid girl, if the cobweb is complex and dense, it is a coincidence!
But in the Tang Dynasty, worried that they would not be able to attract spiders, the girls in the Tang Dynasty simply caught spiders by themselves. Then put the melons and fruits on them, and then make a box to lock the spider inside to prevent the spider from escaping.
Then on the second day, open the box again to see who is lucky, and Lin Xiaomei and the matchmaker are catching spiders.
"Be careful." Ye Wen was idle in the villa below, and when he came to the top, he saw Lin Xiaomei and the others carrying ladders to find them between the houses.
"I've got another one here." The matchmaker exclaimed, looking very happy.
And Lin Xiaomei was much more depressed, she didn't catch any of them, but the matchmaker caught two.
"I'll help you find it." Ye Wen saw that Lin Xiaomei was unhappy, and volunteered.
"Hmm." Lin Xiaomei searched for a long time and didn't find a spider, obviously a little discouraged, and gave the ladder to Ye Wen.
Ye Wen has lived in the jungle for so long, of course he is not afraid of spiders, but as a modern person, it is a little uncomfortable to find spiders in person. But for the sake of Lin Xiaomei, Ye Wen still raised his spirit and tried his best to find the spider.
"Did you find it? Do you want me to give you one? The matchmaker got down from her ladder and said to Lin Xiaomei.
"No, my husband is looking for me, and I'll talk about it when I can't find it." Lin Xiaomei temporarily rejected the matchmaker's proposal.
"Found it." Finally, Ye Wen caught a spider in a corner.
"Husband is so powerful." Lin Xiaomei was very happy to hear that Ye Wen had found the spider.
"That's, you don't look at who I am." Ye Wen was praised by Lin Xiaomei and looked very arrogant.
"I have two here, can you win, little sister?" The matchmaker came to the side to make up for the knife.
"Husband..."Lin Xiaomei looked at Ye Wen with expectant eyes.
"Aren't there just two more? I'll just look for it again. How could Ye Wen give up halfway, so he had to continue to look for his spider, and by the way, he looked at the matchmaker angrily, but the matchmaker snickered on the side, "I'll clean her up later." Ye Wen thought secretly.
"Husband, do you want me to help you dry your books?" The matchmaker asked below after laughing.
Qixi Festival also has the custom of drying books and clothes, it is reported that Sima Yi was quite suspicious of Cao Cao because of his high position, Sima Yi in order to protect himself, he pretended to be crazy and hid at home. But Cao Cao was not very relieved, so he sent a close confidant Ling Shi to secretly investigate the truth. It happened to be July 7, and Sima Yi, who was pretending to be crazy, was posting books at home. Ling Shi went back to report to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao immediately ordered Sima Yi to return to the court to take up his post, otherwise he could be detained. Sima Yi only obediently obeyed the order to return to the court.
There is another kind of people, in troubled times, who express their depression in the form of a wandering wreckage. They despise the law of propriety and oppose the world. On July 7, everyone was drying books, but Hao Long ran to lie down in the sun, and when people asked him why, he replied: "I dry books." On the one hand, this is to despise the custom of drying books, and on the other hand, it is also to boast of the talent in his womb. Drying the belly is also drying the book.
The custom of drying clothes in the Han Dynasty created an opportunity for wealthy families to boast of their wealth during the Wei and Jin dynasties. Ruan Xian, who is listed as the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", looks down on this style. On the 7th of July, when his neighbor was drying his clothes, he saw that the shelves were all covered with silk and satin, and they were dazzling. And Ruan Xian unhurriedly picked up a shabby dress with a bamboo pole, and someone asked him what he was doing, and he said: "It's not vulgar, talk about Fuer'er!" ”
Judging from these few stories, we know how popular the custom of drying books and clothes was on Qixi at that time.
"No, you don't." Although Ye Wen has many books, he does not show off his wealth, and he does not have the habit of this custom.
"Oh." The matchmaker also knew that Ye Wen was from a distant family, and the customs and habits might be different.
In this way, Ye Wen searched and searched, and finally caught another spider, and it seemed that the room above him should be cleaned again.
Ye Wen came down and handed the spider to Lin Xiaomei, asked her to put the spider in her box, and then patted the dust on her body, watching them discuss this boring game.
Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie Festival, so women play the most tricks, and the palace maids have the most. If Ye Wen goes to the palace at night, he will see the palace maids "threading needles and begging", that is, under the moonlight, they use the fastest speed to pass the colorful silk thread through the pinhole.
This needle is not an ordinary sewing needle, of course, the needle used by Qixi begging is different, and the needle has a total of nine needleholes, and the average person with bad eyes can't really complete it in the faint moonlight.
There is also a "needle test", that is, at noon, put a bowl of water or a basin of water in the yard to be exposed, and after half a day, a layer of dust floats on the water surface, and the tension is greater, and then the needle is put on the water surface.
You have to carefully put the needle on the water, if you throw it directly into the water, it is impossible to float, unless the needle is made of plastic, but there is no plastic in the Tang Dynasty, unless Ye Wen helps them cheat.
If the needle floats on the water, look at the shadow of the needle underwater. Those who have clouds and flowers, birds and beasts, and those who have shoes and scissors and eggplant shadows, are begging for skill; Its shadow is as thick as a hammer, as thin as silk, and as straight as shaft wax.
It's a pity that Ye Wen is at home with Lin Xiaomei and the matchmaker, and it is impossible to go to the palace to see those delicate and beautiful palace maids competing for coincidence in the palace.