Author: Insight Yimo
The relationship begins at first sight, love finally sticks to it, and love is longer than companionship.
When it comes to Valentine's Day in China, the first thing that comes to mind is "Tanabata".
In fact, Tanabata is "Daughter's Day", a day about women's blessings and begging.
The "Valentine's Day" in ancient China is actually the fifteenth lantern of the first month.
Ouyang Xiu has a poetry cloud: the moon on the willow tip, people about after dusk.
During the Lantern Festival, young men and women take the opportunity to enjoy the lanterns and meet with their sweethearts, so this day has also created countless good relationships and beautiful families.
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It began at first sight
The ancients said: If life is only like the first sight, what is the autumn wind and sorrow.
The first encounter must be wonderful, and all the time is happy.
Lantern Festival, look at the lights and look at people.
Meeting each other in the flower lanterns of the sky is the most romantic beginning of love.
Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng met during the Lantern Festival.
The lanterns are like stars, fireworks are like dreams, and Zhao Mingcheng met this female lyricist of the famous Beijing master on the bridge.
He fell in love with Li Qingzhao at first sight and invited her to enjoy the lantern and guess the riddle.
After going back, Zhao Mingcheng did not think about tea and did not want to eat.
His father sensed something different, and Zhao Mingcheng gave his father an anagram:
Words and Sihe (字), An shang has been stripped (female), Chifu Grass Pull (husband).
Meaning: I want to be the husband of the word woman.
His father understood the spirit, and soon went to the Li family to hire and complete the marriage.
Zhang Ailing said: "Among tens of millions of people, meet the people you want to meet." In the wilderness of tens of millions of years, there is no step earlier, nor one step later. ”
Not sooner or later, it just happens to be you, and this is the fate given by God.
No matter what the ending, love well can live up to the arrangement of fate.
In the Pear Garden drama "Chen San Wu Niang", Chen San and Huang Wu Niang also met at the Lantern Festival.
Chen San was familiar with reading poetry books, and the fifth lady talked about Xiuya.
In the sky of flower lanterns, the two fell in love at first sight and admired each other.
In order to accompany him, Chen Sanyi introduced shusheng, concealed his identity, and willingly entered the Huang Mansion as a slave for three years.
Huang Wuniang also refused her parents' marriage and eloped with Chen San.
The two have gone through all kinds of difficulties, and a lover has finally become a family.
Rene Liu said: "Love is the superstition of heaven and place. ”
Sometimes, we always have a little less courage and can't be sure that the person in front of us is our destiny.
Hesitant, afraid to pay all, and finally regret for life.
Love is the need for this indomitable superstition, brave to pursue, only in this way, to live up to themselves, not to live up to the good people.
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Love finally persevered
There is a story told in the Tang Dynasty's "Benshi Poem".
Princess Lechang, the sister of Chen Shubao, the lord of the Southern Dynasty, married Xu Deyan, a talented son of Jiangnan.
Later, the Southern Dynasty chen collapsed, and Princess Lechang was captured and went north.
On the occasion of parting, she smashed a mirror in half, half for her husband and half for herself.
They agreed that every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, they would sell copper mirrors along the streets of Chang'an Street until they found the whereabouts of the other party.
A few years later, Xu Deyan finally found someone in Chang'an who sold copper mirrors, and the broken mirrors were reunited.
At that time, Princess Lechang had become the singer of the general Yang Su.
Yang Su saw that Princess Lechang and her husband were deeply in love, and the two were completed, and the husband and wife were reunited.
After Princess Lechang and her husband Xu Deyan returned to Jiangnan, they cherished each other and spent the rest of their lives together.
The two died at the same time in the tenth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan, and the husband and wife were buried together, and the funerary product is said to be the bronze mirror that divided and compounded them.
This is the origin of the allusion to the broken mirror.
Remember, there will always be an echo.
For love, in addition to the beauty of the first sight, there is also the persistence of loyalty.
People who are related may be separated, and people who love each other will be reunited sooner or later.
In the last years of the Song Dynasty, the soldiers were in chaos, and Chen Pengju and his wife were forced to separate.
Before leaving, the wife took out an embroidered shoe and exchanged it for her husband's straw shoes, crying and saying, "I hope we can see each other again with our shoes in the future." ”
Thirty years later, the world was stable, and Chen Pengju participated in politics because of his military achievements.
He searched around with embroidered shoes and eventually found his wife in a nunnery.
His wife had waited for him for thirty years, and he had been alone for thirty years.
The shoes have become a pair, Chen Pengju also remarried his wife home, and the two will stay together for the rest of their lives.
Zhang Xiaoxian said:
"Until the last moment, don't give up, and finally get good things, not lucky."
Sometimes, there must be a painstaking management in the front, and then there is a chance encounter in the back. ”
People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has clouds and sunshine.
Love is not only a good full moon, but also ups and downs, all the way ups and downs.
But people who have love in their hearts will eventually come together.
The Lantern Festival is the first full moon of the New Year, with a full moon in the sky and a full moon on the ground.
On this day, people light up flower lanterns and silently pray, hoping that love and life can be completed.
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Affection is better than companionship
The romance of the Lantern Festival is to watch the lights with you and see the beautiful scenery of the city.
The most beautiful scenery must be seen with the person you love the most.
So on this day, those who go out arm in arm to see the lights are the happiest people.
In the Qing Dynasty, the defense of men and women was very heavy, and women could not go out during the Lantern Festival.
In order to watch the temple fair with his wife, the talented Son Shen Fu visited the lanterns and dressed Up Lady Yunniang as a child.
Yunniang looked at herself in the mirror and couldn't help but laugh.
The two walked around the city of Suzhou with great swagger, enjoying the romance and beauty of the festival.
When they meet acquaintances, they are called brothers, and Yunniang also learns to be a man to behave, hanging out all the way to watch the lights, so unhappy.
Many people say that marriage is the graveyard of love, because there is no longer romance in marriage, there is no longer passion.
But love is not a myth, it is the companionship and sharing in ordinary life.
I would like to accompany you to see the prosperity of the world and accompany you through the low points of life.
In any case, we stand side by side.
Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou and Huizhou, and all the way up, Chaoyun always accompanied him.
From studying abroad to going to the countryside, Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu supported each other and shared the wind and rain.
Du Fu had no ambitions in his life, and his wife Yang Shi did not abandon him.
Affectionate is not as long as a long-term companion, and there is no need to say much about love.
The true meaning of love is waiting for you, companionship, and sharing.
Sharing the endless morning bell and twilight drum with you is the longest confession of affection.
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Valentine's Day in China is very subtle.
There is no enthusiasm of Westerners, but it believes in fate, believes in perseverance, and believes in the blandness of thin water and long streams.
Like the starry sky at night, although it is not dazzling, it emits a gentle and romantic glow.
Give it a thumbs up, on this Lantern Festival, may you be like a full moon, full of sweet hearts, carrying the hands of your lover, walking shoulder to shoulder, walking to the earth and the heavens.