The overnight white hair 一夜花甲

一夜花甲。。。


花甲

汉语中指60岁。由天干、地支组合,每一干支代表一年,六十年为一循环。后称年满六十为花甲。花甲也指年月，时代，年纪，年岁。

序言

六十年一甲子，天干地支一轮回，花甲意为双鬓花白，取一轮甲子之意.

一夜花甲

某甲子年，一年轻画师与一女子邂逅，两人一见钟情。每日画师都为女子作画一幅以表爱意，年复一年，堆起女子画像厚厚的一叠。然好景不长，二人相濡以沫七年之后，不得已需离别。因为女子的父亲逼她嫁给一位官僚。在女子离开当晚，画师面对空中一轮明月，手握女子画像痛心不已。忽然他想起曾经听人说过的传说：60年一个轮回，经过六十年的等待头发斑白后，就会与相爱的人在另一个轮回里相遇。可是画师不能等待六十年那么久因为心爱的女子第二天就要离开了。画师索性用画笔蘸上白漆，将双鬓染白，省去了六十年的等待，一夜花甲，祈求与上苍换取和女子下一个六十年后的轮回，重修这段姻缘。 翌日晨，双鬓已白的画师，在二人初遇的桥头重遇了离开后的女子……女子虽然看见站立桥头的画师，却已不识“一夜花甲”的老翁，与他匆匆的擦肩而过。。。。。。

The overnight white hair

Huajia

Huajia means ‘60 years old’ or ‘60 years’ in Chinese. It is formed by 22 names of years in the Chinese era.

Jiazi year

The beginning year of a 60-years-cycle.

Prologue

60 years is a cycle. Huajia is also a meaning of ‘waiting 60 years until hair turns white’.

The overnight white hair

In a Jiazi year, a young painter met a girl beside a bridge and fell in love with her.

From then on the painter started painting a painting every day for the girl to show his love. He painted for the girl year by year; the girl has kept a thick stack of paintings. The life was full of happiness.

But their happy life hasn`t kept a long time. 7 years later, they had to part because the girl`s father forced the girl to marry a rich officer.

After the girl left, the painter was very sad; he watched the lonely moon at night with the painting of the girl in his hand. Suddenly he remembered it is said 60 years is a cycle, if 60 years pass and his hair turns white, he would meet the person he loved again, in another cycle. But 60 years were too long for him to wait, he couldn`t wait any more because the girl would marry another man next morning. Then he dyed his hair white with his paintbrush and omitted the 60-years-waiting. He hoped that he could fall in love with the girl again with his overnight white hair.

Next morning, the white-haired painter really met the girl again at the bridge where they first met each other. He watched the girl happily but the girl couldn`t recognised him…