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Chapter 5: Colored Thread Lightly Wraps Ruby Arm

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    [1] "Huanxisha. Dragon Boat Festival" Su Shi. Ci

    Sweating lightly through Bi Wan,

    In the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival bathed in Fanglan,

    The flowing fragrance is full of Qingchuan.

    The colored thread is lightly wrapped around the ruby ??arm,

    The small talisman hangs obliquely on the green cloud servant girl,

    Beautiful people meet each other for a thousand years.

    Tomorrow is the "Dragon Boat Festival" [1].

    The more such a festival is, the busier it is for Polo Zuoxiang.

    During the day, he will attend the dragon boat activities in various road prefectures; at night, he will be on duty in the public house to maintain the safety of the entire Sichuan, because this is the first festival after the suppression of the chaos.

    Just after noon that day, the wife of the gatekeeper in the east came to Zhao Xiang's study quietly and told him: "The master of my family has been busy with work in recent days, and he will be on duty at the palace tomorrow night. At night, only  The madam stays alone in the vacant room, and the young master can cross the wall to meet the beautiful woman." After saying that, he left in a hurry, leaving only Zhao Xiang's beating heart.

    Bu Feiyan was in a great mood, she looked around the yard, and then played on the swing for a while.  The fragrant sweat on his body seeped slightly through the green thin juan.  She asked the maid to bring water boiled with orchid grass[2], and took a bath.

    After washing up, the maid poured the remaining face powder and rouge bath water into the creek in front of the door, and followed the stream to the clear river.

    Bu Feiyan gently wrapped the multicolored thread[3] around her ruddy wrist, and carefully hung the magic talisman on her beautiful bun[4] in order to exorcise evil spirits and protect peace.

    Everything is packed, and I can only look forward to the once-in-a-thousand-year date with my lover tomorrow night.

    [2] "Like a Dream Order. Before Du Xiaohua Jingyuan" Bai Juyi. Words

    I went to Xiaohua Jingyuan before, and I saw it when I was unusual.

    See you and rest, worry but wait to disperse.

    Heartbroken, heartbroken, remember that hairpins and temples are chaotic.

    Late at night at the Dragon Boat Festival, it was eerily quiet.

    Inside the house, the candles had already been extinguished.  Bu Feiyan quietly sat beside the bead curtain, quietly waiting for the good times to come.  Her heart, however, was pounding.

    Outside the house, the moon has only a very thin slit, just now it was looking at her with one eye open and closed in the direction of the west neighbor, and now I don't know where it has gone

    Zhao Xiang finally stayed up until midnight, so he carefully moved the ladder, climbed up the high wall, and climbed down along the red apricot tree against the wall in the courtyard of Bu Feiyan's house.

    From a distance, I saw Bu Feiyan standing silently by the pond gallery, looking anxiously at him.  Seeing his beloved woman anxiously waiting, Zhao Xiang was so excited that he ran over quietly on tiptoe.

    Bu Feiyan quickly threw himself into his arms, trembling all over, "It's too cold, hurry up and get into the room~"

    Zhao Xiang asked worriedly: "You won't let your maid find out?"

    "Today's Dragon Boat Festival, I let them drink a few more glasses of realgar wine [realgar wine is poisonous, people often use rice wine instead], and now they all go to bed early."

    Zhao Xiang was ecstatic, picked up Bu Feiyan and sneaked into her embroidery room

    [3] "The Romance of the West Chamber" Wang Shifu. Yuan Song

    The embroidered shoes have just been half removed, and the willow waist is hooked,

    Shyly refusing to raise his head, he just put the mandarin pillow next to him,

    Yun Huan looks like a golden hairpin, but it should be loose and crooked.

    I unbuttoned her,

    I will untie your sash, and the orchid musk deer will scatter in a secluded fast.

    Bad will ban people,

    Why don't you turn around?

    Bu Feiyan lit a red candle, sat back on the edge of the bed, took off only half of the embroidered shoes, hooked them on his feet, and dangled back and forth.  Her slender waist was bent like a little hook, and her shy little face never dared to lift it up.

    Zhao Xiang saw a glass of realgar wine[5] on the table and a paintbrush next to it. Knowing that it was Bu Feiyan who "painted the forehead"[6] for the little girl, he picked up the paintbrush and dipped it in realgar wine, and walked to  Bu Feiyan approached him and said, "Hold your head up!"

    "Why~"

    "Painting forehead yellow."

    "I'm not a child" Bu Feiyan lowered her head even lower in shame.

    Zhao Xiang put the paintbrush on the bedside table, "ActuallyI wantto take a good look at you."

    "What's so interesting?"

    "You made me so emotional, but why doesn't your little face turn around?"

    Bu Feiyan hastily picked up a pillow beside the bed, hugged it tightly in her arms, and said "still holding a pipa and half covering her face", but in this way, the beautiful "pine bun" was overwhelmed, her mouth  Li laughed and cursed, "Keep watching, still watching, you still watch~"

    Zhao Xiang stretched out his trembling hands and untied her clothes., the ancient Yue people Tianhuang had invented the heavenly stems and earthly branches.  The ancients used the heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, the heavenly stems carried the way of heaven, and the earthly branches carried the way of the earth, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches were set up to match the fate of heaven, earth and personnel.

    The ancients used the celestial stems and earthly branches to record the year, month, day, and time. According to the zodiac calendar, the twelve earthly branches are calculated according to the order.  It is also called "Yangchen", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang".

    (2) Herbal cleansing potion

    Herbal medicine water is the Mulan soup recorded in ancient books. The herbal medicine water for Dragon Boat Festival can cure skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits.  The Dragon Boat Festival is the most medicinal day of the year for plants and trees, and there are medicines everywhere on the Dragon Boat Festival.  During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in my country have the custom of picking herbs and boiling herbal medicine water for bathing. The medicinal properties of Dragon Boat Festival herbs have played a vital role in it.

    The surviving written records about the custom of washing herb potions were first found in the "Book of Rites of the Great Dai" at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, but the orchids in the text are not orchids, but Peilan or herbs of Compositae, which have fragrance and can be boiled in water for bathing.  This custom still exists and is widely popular.  In Guangdong, children wash with bitter herbs or herbs or flowers and plants such as mugwort, cattail, impatiens, and magnolia, while teenagers and adult men go to rivers and seaside to take a shower.  In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, wind roots, wormwood, calamus, peach leaves, etc. are used to make medicinal water for bathing, regardless of men, women, old or young, and the whole family washes.

    (3) Tie five-color silk thread

    In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors "green, red, white, black, and yellow" that symbolize the five directions and five elements are regarded as auspicious colors.  The multicolored silk threads may have originated from the tattoo customs of the ancient southerners. "Han Shu" said: "The Yue people are often in the water, so they cut off their hair and tattoo their bodies. They look like dragons, so they don't see any harm."  Tie arms with silk thread was once a very popular festival custom.  Passed down to later generations, it has developed into many kinds of beautiful ornaments such as long life thread, long life lock, sachet, etc. The production is becoming more and more exquisite, and it has become a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

    On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children will tie five-color silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits.  Traditionally, red, green, yellow, white and black thick silk threads are twisted into colored ropes and tied on the arms or necks of children. They are tied on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and are not untied until the birthday of "Qiniangma" on Qixi Festival.  incinerate.  There is also a saying that on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting off the colorful thread and throwing it in the rain means letting the river wash away plagues and diseases, which is said to be able to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, which will bring good luck for the year.  transport.

    (4) Pei damselfly

    In the old days, the headdresses of women during the Dragon Boat Festival were mostly seen in Jiangnan.  Some areas are also known as Jianren.  This object is said to be derived from the ancient Bu Yao, and it is said to be a different form of Ai Ren.  "Qing Jialu" quotes "Tang and Song Legacy" as saying: "Whoever is in the north and south of the river, the system of hairpin head color wins in five days is extremely ingenious Add banners and treasure covers, hydrangea balls, bells and bells in a hundred shapes, or run through  The skewers are called damselflies, and they are invincible."

    (5) Drink cattail wine, realgar wine, and cinnabar wine

    Drink cattail wine, realgar, and cinnabar wine, and sprinkle with wine.  "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji": "Use calamus or carved or crumbs, and cold wine."  Ming Feng Yingjing's "Yueling Guangyi": "Use cinnabar wine for five days to ward off evil spirits and detoxify. Use wine to dye your forehead, chest, hands, feet and heart, and there will be no danger of snakes (a poisonous snake mentioned in ancient books). Sprinkle the walls, doors and windows to avoid  Poisonous insects." This custom is widely spread.

    Medicinal materials include realgar, Zhu Lei, cypress seeds, peach kernels, pu slices, mugwort leaves, etc. After soaking in wine, people use calamus mugwort to sprinkle the corners of walls, doors, windows, and under beds, etc., and then apply wine to children's ears, nose, and navel to drive away poisonous insects.  From a health point of view, these activities are still scientifically justified.  Adding water and wine to realgar and sprinkling it indoors can disinfect and sterilize it, and drinking cattail is also quite beneficial.

    (6) Amount of drawing

    During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is customary to smear the forehead of children with realgar, which can repel poisonous insects.  A typical method is to use realgar wine to draw the word "king" on the forehead of the child. Firstly, the realgar is used to detoxify, and secondly, the tiger ("king" resembles the forehead pattern of a tiger, and the tiger is the king of beasts, because it is replaced by a tiger) to suppress  evil.  In addition to applying it on the forehead, nose and ears, it can also be applied elsewhere, with the same intention.  Shanxi "Hequ County Chronicle" says: "Dragon Boat Festival, drink realgar wine, use it to smear children's forehead, hands, and solesIt is said that it can cure illness and prolong life." (Remember this website: www.hlnovel.com
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