(1) Tanabata

Tanabata is the day of the meeting at the Magpie Bridge. The night looked festive, but it was a whole year of bleakness.

The myth of love is only suitable for interpretation in literary works, once it becomes firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, once it becomes the real life of eating, drinking, lazing and sleeping, all romance will be eclipsed. The days are passed day by day, people who want to have love// people's day, if you give him love every day// people's day, according to people's usual performance guesses, as soon as they come, he will be tired; Second, taking it for granted will erode all the excitement and enthusiasm.

"July 7th", in my impression, there are two points that have remained in the memory of the countryside. The first point is that in the past, there was a process for countrymen to go from blind date to marriage, unlike now, fast-food lightning matching. In the past, for people who were preparing to get married, the "June 6th" and "July 7th" of the lunar calendar were all good days, and there would be some actions related to the preparation for marriage. For example, if it is a good weather on the sixth day of June, it will be "dowry" [the hometown dialect is called "drying and spinning", I wrote it according to the pronunciation, but I have never seen those three words. It is estimated that one is afraid that the dowry will become moldy and smelly in the cabinet after the dampness in March and April; Second, it was also to "show" the craftsmanship of their own girls to the villagers - many of the dowries at that time were made by the girls themselves. The second point is that the grandmother said that "July 7" is the "Begging Festival", which is the festival of the girls, and it is said that there is a certain ritual to lead the fairies in the sky down to earth. Because there are only hazy memories, the details are forgotten.

The concept of Qixi Magpie Bridge Club comes from Chinese textbooks. It's about the cow // Lang Weaver Girl, and I still remember it deeply. The story of the cow // lang and the weaver girl was selected into the Chinese textbook, and the publicity effect of this story can be imagined. Many of the concepts of Tanabata originated here.

(2) Niu // Lang

Niu // Lang was originally an ordinary character in mythological stories. I don't know when, the meaning of the word "cow // lang" has changed and has become synonymous with "male public relations". Just like "Miss" was the honorific title for unmarried girls in wealthy families, but now it has become a special code name for "runaway women".

Niu // Lang and Wu Dalang don't seem to have anything to do with each other. Just from the literal point of view, if you want to find similarities, there may still be some, that is- they are all "Lang". From a deep level of literature, Niu // Lang and Wu Dalang actually have similarities and similarities. Of course, the similarity and similarity I am talking about here are not literal or superficial. The similarity and similarity between Niu // Lang and Wu Dalang lies in the fact that Niu // Lang has a weaver girl wife, and Wu Dalang has a younger brother of Wu Song. The emergence of this situation is actually a kind of use of the "compensatory psychology" of the people by the creators. To put it nicely, this is called psychological satisfaction; To put it mildly, this is also a disguised meaning. Wu Dalang is a weak citizen, who will be trampled on and bullied by various officials, scoundrels, or forces that collude with officials and scoundrels. Such a social identity makes Wu Dalang have no chance or outlet to release his resentment, so the author gave him a heroic and brave younger brother who could kill and kill those wicked and bad people. Through Wu Song, for people like Wu Dalang, create an emotional outlet so that they will not be suppressed to death. Niu // Lang is a poor boy herding cattle, to be honest, his personal food and clothing may be a huge problem, let alone marrying a daughter-in-law. Moreover, in the context of the concept of the family, the usual fate of Niu // Lang is about to marry a village girl for his life. The cow // lang in the story got a fairy who went down to earth. For many poor boys, a cowherd baby can marry a fairy, so it is understandable that he has a little imagination of the ladies in the high-rise embroidery household. The appearance of Niu // Lang has given countless poor boys a huge fantasy space for their future marriage.

(3) Love// People's Day

I don't know since when the Chinese have had the ability to completely entertain everything. From a historical point of view, the soul under the yoke of autocracy will probably have two endings, either silence to death, or entertainment to death. Today's comprehensive entertainment of the Chinese people, the conjecture may be the so-called "poison of 2,000 years of feudal rule" has not been clarified, conjecture is conjecture, what is the truth, I don't want to delve into it.

One of the manifestations of the above-mentioned ability is: in addition to the Qingming Festival, all imported "foreign festivals" and "soil festivals" of their own ethnic groups can be celebrated by Chinese people as "love // human festivals".

In the West, "Love Day" is, strictly speaking, a Christian commemoration of "justice" and "love", and a reverence and respect for someone who sacrificed his life because of "justice" and "love". There's religion, there's struggle, there's love, there's death. When the "Love Day" was popular among people other than Christians, the festival had taken off the cloak of religion and was completely secularized, without blood, and full of romance.

Among the many festivals in China, there is no blatant naming a festival with the word "love//person". This is determined by a series of factors such as Chinese implicitness, male and female defense, and traditional etiquette.

After the flood of the word "love//person", the connotation of "love//person's day" has also become blurred.