Eternally A Xingmi 10,098 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Lay wishes everyone a Happy Chinese Valentine's Day in the form of a poem... Ofcourse...He forgot to turn off the location option... Most of the translators on twitter are finding it difficult to translate his update into english... because they feel like the poem might lose its beauty in the translation... the flow of words... and the beautiful word play... This is one of the translations that is closer to the poem... cr: XingPark And ofcourse the fandom...made a fanart in about 30 minutes... The Poet Dan Dan cr:蛋哥的糖妈 source: Lay-Z Dan Dan is Yixing's nick name... And I have put the story about the weaver girl and the cowherd in the spoiler... The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is one of the four most famous folktales of ancient China. It is a classic love story between a fairy and a human being and has a widespread influence. The Qixi Festival is said to have something to do with the fairy tale. Naturally, the seventh day of every seventh month of the lunar calendar has become Chinese Valentine's Day. The tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is a love story between the Cowherd, a human being, and the Weaving Girl, a fairy. They fall in love with each other, get married, forced to separate and blocked by the Milky Way. Out of compassion for them, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month each year, flocks of magpies fly to form a bridge with their bodies over the Milky Way, allowing the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl to meet each other. This story, to some extent, reflects Chinese people's wishes to pursue the freedom of love and marriage. The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl has made the Qixi Festival the most romantic traditional Chinese festival. Countless poems in Chinese history are in praise of the story, the most famous works being the ancient poem of the Han Dynasty Far in the Skies Is the Cowherd Star, Qixi by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty and Fairy On the Magpie Bridge by the great ci writer Qin Guan of the Song Dynasty. In addition, traditional Chinese operas like Beijing Opera and Shaanxi opera etc have plays about the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl. The fairy tale also contains Chinese people's understanding about star images. In the tale, the Weaver Girl Star (the Vega) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, facing the Cowherd Star (the Altair), the brightest star in the constellation Aquila, across the Milky Way. The Chinese fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl can be seen as a story enjoying equal importance as the Greek myths of Odyssey, Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece and the ancient European legend of The Ring of the Nibelung etc. On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, Chinese women customarily look up into the night sky, searching for the Weaver Girl Star and the Cowherd Star on both sides of the Milky Way and hoping to see their annual gathering. Meanwhile, girls on the ground hope to have clever hands and good sense, just like the Weaving Girl. They also pray for a happy marriage of their own. Thus, the Qixi Festival has been entrenched in Chinese culture source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballfina 29,566 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 obligatory: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
핵! 6,020 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 This is amazing <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Celeste 2,261 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 nice fanart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddy 19 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 obligatory: THIS GIF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huocihan 29 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 hahaha, he calls himself "dandan" and the poem, Lay is so sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besouloved 835 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Lay *.* ♡♡♡ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerShe 3,066 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 you see, Yixing is culture!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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