Discount Small Engine Parts
You may already know, ArborTec small engine parts are less expensive than most, and that is due to the fact that we are a "direct from China" small engine parts store. You benefit from that and from our fast shipping. What's all this got to do with a sale, valentine's day, and a festival?Our historic Double Seven Festival time of year is upcoming in China, also known as 'Qixi Festival', and that is sort of like Valentine's day.
On August 9th we're going to further discount our small engine parts because we love you.
"Why hold a small engine parts sale?" you ask.
The Double Seventh Festival is also known as a Chinese Valentine's Day. It falls on the seventh day of the seventh Chinese lunar month, and this year that is August 9th.
We in China have celebrated month 7, day 7 of the Chinese lunar calendar for over 2000 years. Like Valentines Day, we typically give gifts like flowers, chocolates and such to our loved one at this time. Stores often run special discounts here too.
We'd invite you out for a romantic dinner, but we don't know you that well! Instead, we'll offer you sale priced small engine parts. Not quite as romantic, I know, but we hope the gift is well received.
What is Double Seven Festival?
The main participants in this festival are young women, and the main activities are to demonstrate their domestic skills; pray for happiness, wealth, and longevity; worship Zhinü (the weaver god); make and eat 'skill fruit'; and make wishes for a good husband.The special day was once given great importance by young women and young married women, who, according to customs passed down by their elders, followed the custom of worshiping Zhinü.
On the eve of the Double Seventh Day, the young women would sit around the table and display their beautiful needlework to show their skills. They would also watch the Vega constellation, and pray for a good husband and a happy life. After that, they would play games or read poems until midnight.
Also on this Qixi Festival, children pick bunches of wild flowers and hang them on oxen horns. The custom of honoring oxen is in honor of the legendary ox, which remembered Niulang's kindness and in gratitude tried to repay it. According to legend, the old ox sacrificed himself and offered its own hide to allow Niulang to fly to heaven and pursue Zhinü.
Many of the traditional customs are disappearing, or no longer observed, except inpracticed in rural areas.
Now people usually celebrate Chinese Valentine's Day by giving flowers, chocolates, and other presents, like for Western Valentine's Day, to their loves instead of doing the traditional customs. Stores will 9often run special pricing for this.
The Legend
Niulang and Zhinü lived a happy life together; Niulang worked in the field while Zhinü did weaving at home. After a few years passed, they had two children, one boy and one girl.However, happy times didn't last long; the Goddess of Heaven (Zhinü's mother) found out that Zhinü, a fairy girl, had married a mere mortal. The goddess was furious and sent celestial soldiers to bring Zhinü back.
Niulang was very upset when he found his wife was taken back to heaven. Then his ox asked Niulang to kill it and put on its hide, so he would be able to go up to heaven to find his wife. Crying bitterly, he killed the ox, put on the skin, and carried his two beloved children off to Heaven to find Zhinü.
Just before he caught up with Zhinü the goddess of heaven took out her hairpin and created a huge river between them, and they were separated forever by the river that later became to be known as the Milky Way.
Heartbroken, he and his children could only weep bitterly. However, their love moved all of the magpies in the world to take pity on them, and they flew up into heaven to form a bridge over the river, so Niulang and Zhinü could meet on the magpie bridge.
The goddess was also moved by their love, so she allowed them to meet each other on the magpie bridge on that day every year (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month).
So, we'll offer up a special sale on small engine parts and hope you are able to take advantage of it. Go fetch your discount small engine parts now.
