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Valentine's Again

It was the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese Calender yesterday, which was as known as the Chinese Valentine's Day. In Chinese, we call it as 七夕节 (Qī Xī Jié). Japan has this festival too, and it was named たなばた (Tanabata) there.

  It has a reason to have this festival. There was a story, a touching story about a young man who fell in love with a gorgeous fairy who saved his life. They lived happily in a village for a few years after they married. The man worked so hard in the paddy field while the fairy knitted cloths for sale to earn a living. Even though their life was tough, they felt happy anyway.

  But on a scorching hot day, the Jade Emperor appeared at the couple's house. He was there along with the heaven guards to arrest the fairy as she had broken the heavenly rules to marry a mortal man. The man didn't want to lose his beloved wife so he told the Jade Emperor the whole truth that the fairy saved his life and that's how they fell in love.

 
  The Jade Emperor was touched by the couple's story. But breaking rules are still breaking rules. He turned the couple into stars and set them at the opposite banks of the milky way.  Their only chance to get together is on the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese Calender , when an enchanted bridge will appear on the milky way, and the couple will turn to human beings again and get together for one day.
 
  And there's one more thing I would like to add: A day in heaven equals to a year on the planet Earth. So the Jade Emperor used just a few days time to find out the fairy had broken the heavenly rule and what she had done on the planet Earth, not a few years.
 
  I'd written a Chinese poem for the person I love. And if you don't understand Chinese, I would like to say sorry that I'm sorry, 'cause it's really hard to translate into the language of English. XD Maybe you can skip this part.
 
  静夜月羞星儿聚，
  湖前蝉奏思念曲。
  星空放晴月光明，
  而我独念妳笑颜。
 
 
By，
Euan Thum.


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