Today is Tanabata, a day related to love. Roses, chocolates, candlelight dinners, love movies, all in all, romance is full of people.
In this era, love is both fresh-keeping and fragile. In order to win love and protect love, all kinds of wars have never stopped in this world since ancient times. Love is bound by various forces, from the duel in the cold weapon era to the economic bombing in commercial times. To get love, some people rely on brave robbery to maintain it, while others use conspiracy to possess it. Therefore, in this world, there are not only bad love but also dangerous love, which is constantly creating too many social tragedies.
This shows that love in this era needs to undergo a major filtration to get rid of all kinds of viruses that are parasitic on love. "Qixi", as a cultural symbol, should undertake the filtering function of this emotional quality.
There is only one power that can purify the mind and cultivate emotions, and that is culture. "Tanabata" can be used to call for cultural love. Tanabata in China contains too many beautiful emotional qualities. Value elements such as hard work and courage, perseverance, simplicity and kindness, loyalty and city dependence are exactly what love needs to supplement in this era.
It is too shallow and vulgar to simply define Tanabata with the concept of Valentine’s Day. In recent years, the Western Valentine’s Day, in which China people blindly worship imported goods, has not implanted common emotional value elements into the hearts of those who love each other.
Tanabata should be different, or it can be different. This festival is wrapped with powerful comprehensive forces of etiquette, symbolism, emotion and ethics. "All the way to the Altair, Jiaojiao River Han female … Ying Ying Yi Shui, the pulse is speechless." The story of the meeting between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the beautiful sky and the Milky Way Bridge is undoubtedly a beautiful myth that people need most in this era when they are injured by vanity.
In this era when people’s emotional values are extremely crumbling, we might as well take Tanabata as a love filter to build people’s hearts. Since love is the most precious emotion in this world, don’t let such emotional quality be easily corrupted. Culture, on the other hand, allows people with common values, feelings and human ethics to find their own kind and then stick together closely.