Why do women "cross the bridge" and "touch their nails" on the Lantern Festival?

What is the popular name of Lantern Festival? Take the bridge? Custom, this custom has a long history. Tang Chen Yan Jia's poem "Xiao Geng Style in Spring at the End of Yuan Dynasty": It's cold in spring tonight, and there are many beauties on the river bridge. ? Don Sun Chang is hidden in the preface of Xiao Geng Ti Yong Chun Zi in the late Yuan Dynasty? Beauty competition, obstacles like clouds; Childe cross chi, carved saddle like a moon. Traveling with Lop, I suspect that I am looking for a tax horse; Fighting for the bridge across the river seems to attract cows. ? Shang Yuan Night? Beauty? 、? Beauty? Swimming in groups on the river bridge should reflect the custom of walking on the bridge.

A Chinese dictionary? Take the bridge? The article explains:? That is, away from all diseases? ,? Stay away from all diseases? The article explains:? In the northern folk custom of the Ming Dynasty, women went out on the Lantern Festival or the 16th day of the first month to drive away all diseases. ? It is inappropriate to limit the popular era of this custom to the Ming Dynasty, the time to observe it to the tenth five-year plan and Izayoi, and the region to the north.

First,? Take the bridge? The original intention is also inseparable from the purpose of reproduction, which is clearly explained in some records, such as Rugao County Records in Jiangsu Province and the Lantern Festival. It is a good omen for girls to go with each other and fight for the bricks of the cloud bridge. It is even more wrong to go to Jixian Bridge today. Tell the third bridge to go. ? It is clearly written here that the purpose of picking bricks is to get children.

In the customs of Putian County and wanping county, walking on the bridge is linked with hitting a nail. Nails? Harmony is the best person, and touching a nail means touching a child. Shuowen Guo Xu (Volume 28) introduces Dong Liu's A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of Jingshi? New Year's Day: Women of Lantern Festival? When I arrived at all the city gates, I secretly touched a nail. This is called a man's appearance, saying that I touched a nail. ? It can be seen that the purpose of touching nails is to beg children.

In the custom of Liangxiang County, walking on the bridge and eating melon seeds are carried out simultaneously, while eating melon seeds is entrusted to future generations, such as? Climbing melons continuously? Expectation. It is not difficult to understand the original intention of praying for children by touching their nails and eating melon seeds. Followers of the custom of walking the bridge are generally women, which in itself speaks for itself.

Secondly, in some records, the purpose of Yuanxiao walking on the bridge is interpreted as getting rid of diseases and disasters. Lantern Festival celebration, old and young, sick and disabled, each with a stone turtle moxibustion. If there is a river bridge in the local area, it will cross the bridge. If not, * * * save the board and build it a few feet high, which is called an overpass. Both men and women have collected its salty taste, which is called staying away from all diseases. ? Hebei Yongping Fuzhi:? The next day is Yu Guang? The children staggered across the bridge and said it was 100 degrees. ? Pan Qingrong-bi, when is Ji Sheng in Jingdi? The first month? Cross the bridge and hit a nail: On Lunar New Year's Eve, women travel in droves, praying to avoid disaster and blame. The previous one, who was holding incense, said that everything was gone. Where there are bridges, the rate of three to five periods is too high, which is called urban degree. In popular terms, there are no diseases. ?

Third, the story of the meeting between magpies and bridges is related to the custom of walking on the bridge. The myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is a household name in China, and the story of meeting at the Queqiao Bridge is related to the custom of walking on the bridge. Although the gathering time of Queqiao is arranged in July, its realistic basis should be the habit of begging children across the bridge in spring.

Lantern Festival is a good time for men and women to meet. Tang Chen Yan Jia wrote down the activities of men and women on the Lantern Festival in his poem Xiao Geng's amorous feelings are like spring. Peek at Pan rafter hand in hand and watch Luo Shen separately. ? ,? Pan Wei? That's Pan Yue, a A Jin man, admired by women, which generally refers to beautiful men here. ? Luoshen? That is, the princess, here refers to the beauty. Do these two poems mean that beautiful people gather on the river bridge to peep? Pan Wei? Make eyes at each other while men act alone and enjoy themselves? Luoshen? Or feast your eyes or marry you.

Old Tang book? Zhong Zongji: Jinglong went to Yuanye for four years. Thousands of ladies-in-waiting watch the lights, so there are many escapes. ? Many of the maids in Waiting for the Light ran away, mostly eloping? Pan Wei? Let's go Looking back on later generations, the wind of Lantern Festival in some places has not diminished.

Hu Pu 'an's Records of Chinese National Customs Volume I Zhili? Jin gu chun you Lu "cloud:? At midnight snack, the tourists in Gongmen Street were very crowded, and the horses and chariots were also very busy. Tourists can only walk. As far as I can see, most of them are women in red. This frivolous teenager took this great opportunity to show off his ability of being picky and rubbing his shoulders, looking forward to the eyes of Ji matchmaker. And bitches also have the habit of evoking souls in the name of pilgrimages. Eyebrows winking, hoping for a false fate, reminds him of the wild mandarin duck. Once in its territory, there are many gaffes. ? Beggars' Lantern Festival originally evolved from the worship of ancient gods, and making peace between men and women is a proper instrument for offering sacrifices to gods.

What does Luo think of Qu Yuan's poem "Women's Day Customs: Emperor Taiyi"? After the full? Purification? Dealing with it is actually when entertaining immortals, the customs are vulgar, the words are vulgar, mixed with intimacy, wrapped in lewdness, and men and women are extremely free to indulge. ? Although the later generations have restrained, it is still difficult to ban the affair of elopement, so it is integrated into the Lantern Festival as a charm.

Although the legendary time of the meeting between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has shifted, the plot is in line with the custom of walking on the bridge at Yuanxiao. Therefore, it is not a far-fetched inference to regard the custom of walking the bridge as the life foundation of the legend of meeting the magpie bridge.

Four, since the pre-Qin period, China has been circulating the story "The Warring States Policy? "Yan Ce Yi" contains: Faith is like a tail. If you don't come, you will die with the beam. ? It doesn't say who to date here. Zhuangzi? Steal ":? The end of life and femininity are under the beam. If the woman doesn't come, the water won't go, and she will die holding the beam. ? It is clear here that we are having a tryst with a woman. Yuan Zhongsicheng's Ghost Record records Li Zhifu's play The Woman at the End of Life Floods the Blue Bridge, which is based on the legend of the end of life.

Once upon a time, the drum library in Beijing often used the theme of Jingyun Drum "Meet the Blue Bridge", which was about a scholar Wei Yanchun who met a woman Jia during a spring outing in Tomb-Sweeping Day. They fell in love at first sight and met at the Blue Bridge for life. That night, Weisheng went to bed with his parents and hurried to the bridge. It was sunny, but suddenly the rainstorm plummeted and the pool rose. Wei lived and died, clinging to the column. When the rain cleared, he hurried to the bridge and saw Wei in critical condition. He jumped into the river in pain. This story also happened on the bridge, and later generations met in the spring outing, which seems to be related to the custom of walking on the bridge at Yuanxiao.

Micro-life? This name also deserves our attention. ? Tail? In ancient Chinese, it means copulation. "History? Yao Dian:? Birds and beasts have evil tails. ? Kong Anguo biography:? The handover is over. ? In the Beijing Rhyme Drum? Micro-life? Became? Wei Yanchun? Swallow, also known as the mysterious bird, was regarded by the ancients as a god bird bred by the master, so whenever the swallow comes in spring, people will hold begging activities. Book of rites? Monthly order:? It was the month when the mysterious birds arrived in Japan, and the prison shrine was used by Gao. ? Noble and clean is the god in charge of marriage and childbirth.

Luo Song is willing to "Er Ya Yi" Volume 15 "Release Birds? Yan:? (Yan) is coming, the autumn wind is gone, and childbirth is waiting. Its main source is rich milk, so the ancients used the day it arrived to beg for children. ? It seems that the reproductive culture information is also hidden in the two names of Weisheng.

Isn't this in the story of the afterlife? Blue bridge? 1. Later generations described the place where Wei Sheng dated as the Blue Bridge, which originated from the abridged legend of Tang Pei? Pei Hang. This is also a love story. Blue Bridge is the place where Pei Hang met Yun Ying, a beautiful girl, so people often used it after the Song Dynasty? Blue bridge? Refers to a place where men and women date. For example, the words written by Zhou Bangyan in Song Dynasty:? After fleeing, the romantic man was blocked, the blue bridge was made an appointment, and the road was broken. ? The American film tells the love story of British captain Rowe Cronin and ballet dancer Mara who met and fell in love at Waterloo Bridge during World War I. The Chinese translation of Broken Blue Bridge is elegant, but most people may not know the translation? Blue bridge? Meaning of. Bridge has become a cultural symbol connecting love.