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Chapter 56

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    The ancients believed that the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a "poisonous month" and the fifth day is an "evil day".  Whenever the "Dragon Boat Festival" comes, the married daughter will return to her natal family to avoid disasters.

    Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Daughter's Day" [1].

    [1] "Fisherman's Pride. Durian Flowers in May" by Ouyang Xiu.

    The May pomegranate flowers are alluring,

    The green willow belt is raining heavily.

    ? Five-color new silk wrapped rice dumpling,

    Send it on a gold plate, and give birth to two phoenixes on a silk painted fan plate.

    It is the season of Yulan,

    Calamus wine is beautiful and pure.

    When Ye Li Huangli was playing,

    Still sleepy, waiting to break the screen window dream.

    Qingwan wanted to take the opportunity of "hiding the Dragon Boat Festival" to go back to her mother's house for a period of time, so as to verify whether her little brother could leave her.  Seeing Ji Xu sitting alone under the grape arbor, he used the excuse of proposing marriage to test his thoughts.

    Seeing that Ji Xu wasn't interested in Qing Wan's own sister, he thought to himself: This brat, his eyes are not too low!  It seems that only "sacrifice" his little cousin.  Immediately, he took out the letter that Liu had written to her and showed it to Ji Xu.

    Seeing Ji Xu's eyes lit up, Qing Wan knew there was something going on, and said, "How is it? For a talented man like you, how does this little poem go?"

    "good!"

    "Just good?"

    "very good!"

    "Okay?"

    Ji Xu nodded again.

    "Then how about I introduce her to you?"

    "who is she?"

    "My aunt's cousin."

    "Her, her age?"

    "Six years behind you."

    "Bigger than meso much?!"

    Seeing Ji Xu's regretful expression, Qingwan wanted to tease him even more, so she said, "Are you old? You are only six years old There is a saying, 'Female junior, hold gold bricks; female junior, kiss not enough; female  Big eight, make sure to send'"

    "Yes, yes, yes, I don't want to find a mother!"

    Seeing Ji Xu's unwilling handsome appearance again, Qing Wan said with a smile: "He is six years younger than you."

    "Liar!? Can an eight-year-old woman write such a poem?"

    "I won't lie to you, my little cousin is quite talented. She could write poems when she was five or six years old"

    "Writing poetry at the age of five or six? Well, then my uncle is"

    Qing Wan gave Ji Xu a white look, and said, "What is my uncle, it's my uncle, don't get close!"

    Ji Xu smiled embarrassingly: "Aren't we two sworn siblings~"

    "Can you marry me now? My sisters are not good people!"

    "Hey, Sister Qingwan is still fine tell me, who is the little uncle? Have you ever heard of him in my hometown?"

    "My uncle is not your old family member. His name is Liu Yun. He has been an official in the capital, and he has been an official in Zhongshu Province. No, he offended the powerful last year and was demoted to Sichuan Province to do political affairs. I  This little cousin is not only intelligent, but also very beautiful, just like her grandmother, with some characteristics of people from the Western Regions. My uncle regards her as the apple of his eye, ordinary young talents, don't try to get my cousin out of the way!"

    Ji Xu couldn't help but sat up straight.

    Qing Wan smiled, and then said: "This is because you, Mr. Ji, are a talent, so I introduced you two to each other. As for my cousin, whether or not she likes you, we have to say something else!"

    "What's your cousin's name?"

    "It's called Liu Haohao."

    Ji Xu silently recited the name: "Okay-ok-?"

    Qingwan continued: "My uncle has been fighting abroad, and he was almost fifty when he got married. After my aunt married my uncle, she gave birth to a cousin in that year. In order to express the harmony and beauty between husband and wife, I named it 'good'. I  My cousin has been handsome since she was a child, and she is also very smart. My aunt and uncle regard her as a treasure, and carefully teach her poetry, calligraphy, painting, needlework, and wholeheartedly want to cultivate a good girl with both ability and political integrity" Seeing Ji Xu  He had a good impression of Liu Haohao, so he wanted to stretch him, and said, "However, your age is indeed quite different from my cousin, so let's forget it!"

    Ji Xu hurriedly said: "Are you older? I think it's just right to be six years older!"

    "Just right? Didn't you think you were too old just now?"

    "Just now, didn't I think she was six years older than me?"

    "Oh, it's too big for a woman to be six years older than a man, and it's just right for a man to be six years older than a woman? What kind of logic do you have I think it's better to forget it! You think, when my cousin reaches the age of marriage,  You are almost an uncle. Besides, my uncle is not the same.Because the Qixi Festival is closely related to women's affairs, it is also called "Daughter's Day".

    (3) Why is Dragon Boat Festival also Girls¡¯ Day?

    The ancients believed that in the beginning of Tai Chi, the Dao stood in oneness, created the heaven and the earth, and transformed into all things.  Taiji produces two instruments, and these two instruments are yin and yang.  Yin and Yang are relative, just like men and women are relative, so the ancients were thinking in two poles in the design of many issues, and the same is true in festival design.

    There are men's festivals and women's festivals a year.  Therefore, there are three daughter festivals in China, which are the Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival and Double Ninth Festival.  The fifth day of May, the seventh day of July, and the ninth day of September are all positive numbers.  Qixi Festival is the first, which belongs to the little girl's day; Chongyang Festival is second, which belongs to married girls; and the last is Dragon Boat Festival, which belongs to old girls and also belongs to all married girls.

    In ancient times, one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival was called Guining, commonly known as "returning to one's mother's home".  In ancient times, a daughter got married and lived in her husband's house for a long time, and rarely saw her parents.  The Dragon Boat Festival is an opportunity to go home and visit parents, so people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Daughter's Day".

    Shen Bang of the Ming Dynasty recorded in "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes": "May Girl's Day is a Dragon Boat Festival, wearing ai leaves, and five poisonous charms. Wansu from the first day to the fifth day of May, plays the role of a little girl, with a very beautiful appearance. Married girls  They also return to Ning. Because it is called Girls' Day."

    In addition, the ancients attached great importance to the image of "comparison and harmony" of Shuangwu in the gossip, that is, good luck and good travel.  This is also an important reason why married women go back to their natal homes to visit relatives.

    Regarding the reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is called the Girl's Day, there is still a saying among the folks in our country that it is to commemorate a generation of empress Wu Zetian.

    According to legend, in the sixth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, that is, on the day of the Duanyang Festival in 624 A.D., Lizhou, an important town in northern Sichuan, is now the "Jiangtan" of the Jialing River outside Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. An official ship was rowing here.

    The orchestra on board is melodious, and the singing and dancing are light and graceful.

    Suddenly, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the surface of the river was turbulent.  There was a flash of lightning, and a golden dragon suddenly sprang out from the center of the river.  After the golden dragon danced wildly in the sky, it rushed towards the official boat, and immediately frightened the wife of the Lizhou governor, Mrs. Yang, who was sitting on the boat, to faint.

    ? When the beautiful lady of the governor woke up, the wind had stopped and the waves were still, the dark clouds in the sky had disappeared without a trace, and only the bright sunshine was shining warmly on the clear river.  The oars and sculls are drawn, the wind is sunny, everything is so quiet and serene, as if nothing happened just now.

    The Dudu's wife became pregnant soon after returning, and gave birth to a baby girl on the 23rd day of the first lunar month.  Later, the baby girl grew up, and after going through a period of hardships, she became the only female emperor in the long history of China.  She is Wu Zetian, an outstanding female politician in Chinese feudal society, and the "Golden Wheel Holy God Emperor" of the Great Zhou Dynasty who ruled the world on behalf of the Tang Dynasty.

    In Lizhou in the Tang Dynasty, to commemorate this outstanding woman who was born here, the local people built a sacrificial temple "  Huangze Temple".  The rippling Jiangtan is also known as the "Golden Wheel Sensation Institute"; the Dragon Boat Festival has also become Wu Zetian's meeting.

    Every year on Wu Zetian's birthday, a grand celebration will be held, and women from all over the city will come out in gorgeous costumes and gather on both sides of the Jialing River.  They moved boats across rivers and lakes, singing and dancing, begging for the reappearance of the golden dragon, feeling the dragon's pregnancy again, and giving birth to a few more female heroes who are proud of the women of the world.

    In 1988, the Guangyuan Municipal Government decided to restore this folk festival, and named it "Daughter's Day", and set the festival on September 1st of the Gregorian calendar.

    Women, children, why do you want to avoid disasters on the Dragon Boat Festival?

    In ancient times, in many places in our country, girls who got married on the Dragon Boat Festival had to go back to their natal home to visit relatives, not only to visit their parents, but also to "hide the Dragon Boat Festival".

    In the past, the fifth month of the lunar calendar was considered to be a "poisonous month" and a "bad month", and the Dragon Boat Festival was a "bad day" when everyone was in danger.  On this day, people need to be careful to avoid taboos and cross the border cautiously.  That is what people usually call to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

    In addition to hanging wormwood, letting children wear "sachets" or "colorful threads" and drinking realgar wine, the folk methods of avoiding taboos also let women take their children back to their natal homes to avoid the evil spirits of the Dragon Boat Festival.

    Although the Girl's Day is not as grand and grand as the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a little more warm, delicate and humanistic.  Reciting this name silently in my heart, people can't help but feel indescribable happiness.

    Just imagine, on Doll's Day, a married daughter takes her family and carries zongzi to go home to visit her parents.  What a beautiful and poetic thing!  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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