"Do you know what day it is?" Miao Han asked suddenly.

"Chinese Love Festival!" I laughed.

"It should be more accurate for Chinese Valentine's Day!" Miao Han thought about it.

"No," I said seriously, "the Qixi Festival is a festival based on the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, with love as the theme and women as the protagonists. In this folklore, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are already husband and wife, and they are still carrying a baby, so the Qixi Festival should express a kind of loyal feelings between husband and wife, and abide by the commitment of both parties to love and marriage, not to express the emotions of lovers or lovers before marriage, which are two feelings at different stages of life. ”

"Makes sense!" Miao Han smiled.

"This is a typical 'space' marriage!" I said with a smile.

"What is a 'space' marriage?" Miao Han asked thoughtfully.

"'Space' marriage," I pretended to say, "refers to the marriage of a Cowherd and Weaver Girl who are thousands of miles apart and rarely see each other several times a year. This kind of marriage, because the space distance is too far and the time spent together is too little, the relationship between the husband and wife is easy to break down, so in a sense, it is a problem marriage. ”

"You're right," said Miao Han, "when I was a child, I would often look at the twinkling stars in the sky on a clear night, looking for the white Milky Way that ran from north to south. Every time I saw Altair and Vega across the river, I was very excited, and then I begged Heaven to give me a happy love and marriage in the future! ”

"Tanabata is also called the Qiqiao Festival," I said with a smile, "and it is a folk custom to sit and watch the morning glory and Vega on Tanabata." According to legend, on this night every year, it is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent, and ingenious fairy, and the women of the mortal world beg her for wisdom and ingenuity on this night, and also inevitably ask her for a happy marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging Festival. ”

"When I was young," Miao Han smiled, "I also eavesdropped on the Cowherd and Weaver Girl whispering under the melon and fruit stand!" ”

"I didn't hear anything!" I said with a smile.

"I really heard that," said Miaohan, with a serious face, "but I didn't hear what they both said, because they were too quiet!" ”

"Tanabata Festival is also known as Daughter's Day," I said, thinking, "and in the past, girls paid special attention to this day. On this romantic evening, the girls face the bright moon in the sky, put seasonal melons and fruits, worship to the sky, begging the goddess of heaven to give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands, so that their knitting skills are skillful, and they beg for the marriage of love and marriage. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women that determined their happiness in life. Therefore, countless sentient men and women in the world will pray to the stars for a happy marriage on this night, in the dead of night. ”

"What kind of person will I marry in the future?" Miao Han suddenly asked me with tears in her eyes.

"Surely better than me," I said earnestly, "at least he should be honest and not bothered!" For a man like me, ordinary women can't stand it, and they will basically go crazy in the end! ”

"Then tell me the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl now!" Miao Han said with a smile on her cheeks, "I've seen it many times, and I want to hear from you now, because what you say is definitely better than what I've seen!" ”

"Then I'll tell you about it!" I said seriously, "Cowherd is an orphan who has lived in Niujiazhuang since he was a child, relying on his brother and sister-in-law to live. His brother is a 'strict wife', and his sister-in-law is very mean, and often abuses the cowherd. Later, the Cowherd was forced to leave his brother and live alone with an elderly farming cow. ”

"The old cow loves to eat tender grass," Miao Han thought about, "and the cowherd must often go to herd the cow!" ”

"Don't interject," I smiled, and continued, "One day, the Weaver Girl and the fairies in the sky came down to play, and reveled in the beauty of the mountains and rivers on earth, so the sisters went down to bathe and play in the river. The psychic old cow informed the Cowherd of this and offered to steal the Weaver Girl's bra in order to keep her in the world, and the Cowherd did as he said. ”

"The Cowherd is still an underwear thief!" Miao Han laughed and said, "I must have stolen her clothes, right?" ”

"You're right," I said with a laugh, "and then the Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd." After getting married, you plough the field and come to me to weave, and I will carry water to you to water the garden. Although the cold kiln is broken, it can shelter from the rain, and the love between husband and wife is bitter and sweet. Later, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, and their lives were happy and sweet. ”

"I've lost a lot of bras before," Miao Han said seriously, "who do you think would do it?" ”

"You digress, stop interfering," I said with a smile, "when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were living happily, unexpectedly, the Emperor of Heaven learned of this and ordered the Queen Mother to escort the Weaver Girl back to Heaven for trial. The old cow couldn't bear to let their wives separate, so he cut off the horns on his head and turned it into a small boat, so that the cowherd and his children could chase after him in a boat. When she was about to catch up, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled off the golden hairpin on her head, and drew a rolling and boundless Milky Way in the sky, which could not be passed by a small boat. The Cowherd could only look at the Weaver Girl by the river and cry and be heartbroken. Their unswerving love touched the magpies in the world, and countless magpies flew from all directions, using their thin bodies to build a colorful bridge across the Tianhe, and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl were able to embrace each other on the Tianhe. When the Jade Emperor saw this touching scene, he was also moved by compassion. However, there is a difference between people and gods, and since then, the Jade Emperor has allowed the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to go on a date on Queqiao once a year on July 7. And for most of the time that the years passed, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could only look at each other across the river. ”

"I didn't interject this time!" Miao Han laughed.

"There's a poem called "Morning Glory", you know?" I asked Miaohan with a smile.

"Yes," Miao Han smiled and chanted, "Morning Glory, Bright River Han Maiden." Slender hands, zaza lanes. All day long, sobbing like rain. The river is clear and shallow, how much is it different? Yingying is in the water, and the pulse is silent. ”

I smiled.

Miao Han smiled.