The Spring of the Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty
The Emperor Qianlong built the Qingyi Garden (predecessor of the Summer Palace) in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing, expanding the original water surface of the Lushan Mountain, borrowing the old name of the Kunming Pool of Shanglinyuan in the Han Dynasty, and renamed it “Kunming Lake”, and also represented the Milky Way in the lake. A copper cow was set up on the south bank, which is better than the Altair. In addition, a series of stone monuments were set up in Yanchangzhai on the west bank of the lake. The monument was engraved with a complete set of "Growing and Weaving Maps", and the Ministry of Internal Affairs’s Weaving and Dyeing Bureau was moved here. Weaver. This pattern is in the same vein as Kunming Pond Cowboy Lang Weaver Statue. It is known as “Kunming Hanchi Unconstrained”. The last time in the garden, the mythical picture of Tanabata is fully presented. At the same time, there is also the idea of advocating male peasant women’s woven and attaching importance to agricultural mulberry.
However, every July of the seventh day of July is the end of summer and early autumn, most of the Emperor Qianlong himself is hunting outside the Sai, even if he stays in Beijing, he generally does not go to Qingyuan, but in the "Xifeng Xiu" scenic spot of Yuanmingyuan. “Xifeng Xiu Se” is one of the forty landscapes of Yuanmingyuan. It consists of a number of courtyards. The northwest side of the rockery is like the Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi. Before the Tanabata, the color shed was built here, and the bead box symbolizing the cleverness was placed. The emperor came by boat in the early morning. Muscat worship. During the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, the emperor often came here to burn incense, and also served the Nanfu and Shengping Departments on the occasion of the Shifter, and performed the actress and the Cowherd and the Weaver.
Emperor Qianlong himself made too many poems on the first Tanabata, for example, one wrote: "Xifeng is a beautiful smoke, and try the new autumn and awkwardness. This time, the ancient female cows have been separated. Who is going to fill the Wuhuan? Luo Si Tianhe weaving, so we need to worship to bless the country's economic prosperity.
In the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou Buyi literati Shen Fu vividly recorded his daily life with his wife Chen Yu in The Six Chapters of Floating Life. After the marriage, the two lived in a small porch next to the Ailian House in Canglang Pavilion. The name was “I took Xuan” and there was a tree in front of the eaves. On the seventh night of the seventh year, Chen Yu prepared the incense sticks and melons, and together with Shen Fu, worshipped the female stars in Xuanzhong. Shen Fu engraved the seals of both sides. The seals were all "willing to be a couple in the world", a Zhu Wenyi white paper, and each of them held their own First, as a token. "It is a good night moon, overlooking the river, sparkling like a practice, light Luo fan, and sitting on the water window, looking up at the clouds over the sky, metamorphosis", heaven and earth, like a fairyland. It is a pity that Chen Yu died of illness, and Shen Fu’s wife died and died forever. This feeling is simple and true, comparable to the legendary cowherd and weaver, and left the best testimony for the Tanabata in the garden. It is far from the hypocrite of the Tang Xuanzong.