What Does Tanabata Send?

What does Tanabata send?

Tanabata Festival has now become "China's Valentine's Day". During the festival, it is unavoidable to prepare gifts for sweethearts. If you want to avoid the public choice of chocolate and roses, you can also refer to ancient people giving gifts to each other, and telling them in classical ways. The token of love can not only witness the love of one's whole life, but also can be passed down from generation to generation and become an eternal saying.

In addition to symbolizing the hair comb of the same heart, the purse sac that symbolizes the long flow of water, or the elegant bracelet, the ancients express their love with the gift of red beans, which symbolizes Acacia. "Red beans give birth to the south, and spring brings several branches. I hope you will gather more. The Acacia written by Wang Wei, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, has been widely circulated for thousands of years, and almost everyone recites it in modern times. Behind this poem, there is also a beautiful love story hidden.

More than 1400 years ago, Zhao Ming, the famous writer of the Liang Dynasty, Xiaotong, Prince Edward, who wrote "Zhao Ming's anthology" at Xiangshan temple, met the nun Hui Rui at the same time, and the two of them congenial with each other and talked about the dark feelings in Buddhism. Xiaotong Prince planted two red beans personally and became a red bean tree to symbolize love. What is even more amazing is that after hundreds of years, these two ormosia trees actually joined together, and the trunk was integrated into one.

　　 Red bean fruit on the red bean tree It has gradually become a gift given by others to express good wishes and friendship. The fruit of red bean is hard, bright and bright, with beautiful luster, which symbolizes pure love, and also represents auspicious and joyful. The seed of red bean is not rotten, rotten, unbroken or broken. It is known as "everlasting and steadfast". The love of red beans is ancient. When a man and a woman marry her, they give a string of red beans that they wish to make, and they will get the best of their love. When they are married, the bride wears a bracelet or necklace strung with red beans, symbolizing the hearts and minds of men and women. They will put together six red beans under the pillow.

In modern times, the good meaning of red bean is not only in love, but also in family, friendship, family life and so on. Giving red beans to the elderly to show their good luck, giving red beans to their loved ones, giving loyalty to them, giving red beans to children to ward off evil spirits and protect healthy growth. Because of the beautiful implication, the products derived from red bean are also varied, apart from ornaments and clothing, home and so on.

More and more people come to the red bean tree park in Donggang town of Wuxi city. This has become a love sanctuary for young people to exchange love and hold a wedding. The lovers wear red ribbons on the red bean trees, wear red bean articles and create ornaments, and wish the love to last forever. The girls give the red beans a light suit to the boys, comfortable, light and fashionable; the boys give the red beans home clothes to the girls, conveying comfort and health.

Red beans are visible, and love is an invisible red bean. On the seventh day of the Seventh Festival, we might as well give a red bean token to our loved ones. This is a great yearning for love, and it is a true love for thousands of years.