Tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day, watch the blue sky, the morning glory and the weaver girl crossing the river bridge. Every family begs for luck and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads. The translation of this poem,

This poem is "Begging for Skills" by Lin Jie of the Tang Dynasty. The translation of the whole poem is as follows: On the evening of Chinese Valentine's Day, looking at the blue sky, it is like seeing the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting each other on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe". Every household is watching the autumn moon and begging for skill (threading a needle on the moon), and there are tens of thousands of red threads crossing it.

The original text of the poem is as follows:

Look at the blue sky tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day, the morning glory and the weaver girl crossing the river bridge. ?

Every family begs for tricks and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads.

Note: Qiqiao, an ancient festival, takes place on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Qixi Festival. Bixiao refers to the vast blue sky. Tens of thousands. There are many metaphors.

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About the author: Lin Jie (831-847), courtesy name Zhizhou, was a native of Fujian and a poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was very smart when he was a child. He could compose poems at the age of six, and he could write a poem as soon as he started writing. He is also good at calligraphy and chess. He died at the age of seventeen. "Begging for Skillful Skills" is a famous poem by Lin Jie, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of folk begging for skills during the Chinese Valentine's Day.

The seventh night of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as "Qixi Festival", also known as "Daughter's Day" and "Girl's Day". It is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe" in the legend. In the past, the main folk activity on Chinese Valentine's Day was begging for skill. The so-called begging for skill means begging for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaver Girl. The most common way to beg for skill is to thread a needle against the moon. If the thread passes through the needle hole, it is called skill.

"Look at the blue sky today on Chinese Valentine's Day, the morning glory and the Weaver Girl crossing the river bridge." "Bixiao" refers to the vast blue sky. The first two sentences describe the folk tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The annual Chinese Valentine's Day is here again, and people in every household can't help but look up at the vast sky. This is because this beautiful legend touches kind and beautiful hearts, arousing people's good wishes and rich imagination.

"Every family begs for skill and looks at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads." The last two sentences explain the matter of begging for skill clearly, concisely and vividly. The poet did not write down various wishes in detail in the poem, but left room for imagination, which further reflects people's joy during the festival.

The poem "Begging for Skills" is an intensive reading text in Group 8 of Volume 6 of the People's Education Press. This set of teaching materials is organized around the theme of folk tales and myths and legends. It involves well-known myths and legends, bringing students back to the joy of listening to adults telling stories when they were children, and fully experiencing the rich imagination of the ancients.