Speaking of the traditional Valentine's Day in China-the story of Qixi, I think everyone is familiar with it. In fairy tales, the cowherd loves the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, the Weaver Girl, and they have a boy and a girl in private. However, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother did not allow their daughters to fall in love with mortals, so one day, while the Cowherd was not at home, the Queen Mother prepared to forcibly bring the Weaver Girl back to heaven. When the cowherd learned the news, he quickly provoked a pair of children with a pole, rode his old cowhide in the wind, flew into the sky, and caught up with the footsteps of Weaver Girl. Seeing that the Cowherd was about to catch up with the Weaver Girl, the Queen Mother tore off her head and drew a galaxy, and stipulated that they could only meet once a year.
Presumably, after listening to this story, everyone will hate the Queen Mother very much and blame her for hitting Yuanyang. Then the question is, if the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl live together all the time, can their love last long? Since the Queen Mother disapproves of this marriage, why do two people meet once a year? There may be something strange in this, so scholars have made some achievements by analyzing the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Some scholars have come to a conclusion by analyzing the myth of the Weaver Girl in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, that is, the original words of the Queen Mother at that time were to let the two meet once every seven days. As a result, the magpie sent a message with the word 1, saying that it was "July 7th", which made it possible to meet once every July 7th. If this statement can be established, it shows that the Queen Mother at that time understood the values of human love very well and specially arranged for them to meet every seven days. If two people are together every day, the taste of love will soon fade.
According to the analysis of current love scholars, if the husband and wife are bored with each other every day and are inseparable day and night, then love is likely to be difficult to last. Seeing each other again after a short separation is likely to have the effect of "getting married in a small farewell match", thus realizing how painful it is to lose each other, which is conducive to the lasting love.
If that's the case, then the Queen Mother's action of pulling out the hairpin and painting the river is not a bad deed of hitting Yuanyang, but a help to their long-term sweet love. It is precisely because the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only meet once a year that their love story can go back to ancient times and still become a couple envied by many people today. And if two people can live together easily, I'm afraid their love story will become "silent" and will not be circulated as a symbol of love festivals today.