Full Moon Scimitar
PREFACE
Full moon.
There are full moons and missing moons, and we’re talking about the full moon now, because this story takes place on the night of the full moon． The moon was even more beautiful than usual on this night, beautiful in its mystery, beautiful in its poignancy, beautiful in its heartbreak.
The story we are about to tell is just as attractive, full of beautiful and mysterious fantasies. In an ancient and mysterious legend, it is said that whenever the moon rises, some spirits always appear with the moonlight, spirits of flowers and trees, spirits of jade and stone, even underground ghosts and ghost foxes will come out to worship the full moon and absorb its essence.
Sometimes they would even transform into human beings, appearing on earth in various different guises and doing things that people would never expect.
These things are sometimes surprising, sometimes touching, sometimes frightening, sometimes joyful, and sometimes unimaginable. They can save a person from the abyss, or push a person off a mountain.
They can give you all the glory and wealth in the world, or they can make you lose everything.
Though no one has ever seen their true colors, no one can deny their existence.
Scimitar.
The blade we are talking about is a scimitar, curved like the eyebrows of Qingqing.
The scimitar originally belonged to Qingqing, a beautiful and mysterious girl, like the full moon on that day.
The sword is a powerful weapon for killing people.
Qing Qing’s scimitar is the same. As long as the scimitar light flashes, disaster will come. No matter what, no one can avoid it, because no one has ever been able to avoid the light of the scimitar.
The light of the blade is not quick, but seeing the moonlight, once you have seen it, it has already fallen upon you.
There is only one moon in the sky and only one scimitar on earth.
When it appears on earth, it does not necessarily bring disaster, but sometimes it also brings justice and happiness to people.
What will it bring to people this time when it appears on earth?
No one knows.
Qing Qing’s scimitar is green, green like distant mountains, green like spring trees, green like tears in the eyes of lovers.
On Qing Qing’s scimitar, there is a line of very small words: ‘Listen to the Spring Rain All Night in the Small House”*. Fortune is as unpredictable as the weather**, the moon has its yin and yang.
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(楼, lóu- a multi-storied bldg. in a villa or manor;part of a palace where women lived)
Found the Chinese of the poem here, but no title or name:
http://www.sc1618.com/shici/99017.html
**( tiānyǒubùcèfēngyún-idiom meaning ‘sth unexpected may happen at any moment’)
This matter is hard to come by. It’s hard to be perfect.
此事古难全。I hope it will last forever and we will share a beautiful life together.
I wish for a long life and a thousand miles to share a love story with you. 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。