我是老王

Qixi, this sentimental feeling like water.
Qixi, this symbolizes eternal love.
In this early autumn, she is quietly approaching us. On this day, it tells a lingering and touching story, and through the transmission of later generations, it has become a beautiful legend.
This day is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge. Only on Qixi, they have the opportunity to meet once a year. It takes tens of thousands of light years to meet on the Magpie Bridge. How much longing and tenderness is there to express? If someone asks what kind of love is the most steadfast and romantic, I will not hesitate to say that the love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and the love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, is the most steadfast and romantic. Although their love is not as romantic as in the West, I just like that simple and unadorned, yet romantic style. They work at sunrise and return at sunset. There is a virtuous wife waiting at home to have dinner together with her husband. They have spent a hundred years to sail on the same boat and a thousand years to sleep on the same pillow. How wonderful that life must be.
Of course, this is just a beautiful yearning. Nowadays, in China, which is deeply influenced by Western culture, we are no longer that simple. We have gradually lost the cultural essence and spiritual wealth left by our ancestors. Our thoughts have become distorted, becoming vain and pursuing pleasure, only pursuing romance, not pursuing eternity. So I often hear people say, "I don't care about forever, I only care about having had it once."
Is our love like that too? Is that the life we want to pursue? If the whole society is in such a decline, not to mention Qixi Festival, I think many traditional cultural festivals in China will be abandoned by them. No matter how hard the sober-minded people try to save, traditional cultural festivals are still unable to resist the influence of Western culture. The only thing that can save China's traditional cultural festivals is still China's tradition, only ourselves. Unless the current love is the love we want, the current marriage is the marriage we want, and the current life is the life we want.
Even if society becomes much more complex, we still cannot stop her from approaching us, this ancient and unchanging myth of Qixi. Their story tells us what kind of love is faithful and only after countless obstacles and difficulties can it enter the realm of marriage. Only this kind of love will last forever and life will be sweet. Otherwise, love is the grave of marriage.
At this moment, the words of Qin Guan's "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" echo in my ears: "Gentle feelings like water, the perfect time is like a dream, reluctantly looking back at the way home on the Magpie Bridge. If the two feelings last forever, then it doesn't matter if we are together every day or every night." Finally, I especially propose that on Qixi day, I hope everyone can put down their work and accompany their loved ones. On that night, under the starry sky, look at the Milky Way and face the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and make a vow together: to be faithful to each other for a lifetime, true love will never change, love will last forever, and marriage will endure all hardships.
2012-08-12