Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a very old fairy tale, which spread before the formation of Valentine's Day in China.

As early as ancient times, the ancients knew something about the astronomical phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The recorded geographical division of cowherd and weaver girl in Tianwenxing District was first found in the historical books of Han Dynasty. Hanshu Geography: "Guangdong (Yue), Petunia (Cowherd) and Weaver Girl are also divided into Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaotoe, Jiuzhen, Nanhai and Rinan."

The novel Fairy Descent mainly tells the story that seven beautiful and kind fairies fell in love with a simple and honest young man, Yong Dong, and went down from heaven to earth privately, breaking through many obstacles and marrying Yong Dong. The jade emperor was furious when he learned that, and ordered the seven fairies to return to heaven immediately. In order not to hurt Yong Dong, the seven fairies had to hold back their grief and cry with Yong Dong under the pagoda tree.

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The origin of cowherd and weaver girl;

The two words "Weaver Girl" and "Petunia" can be found in the text, which first appeared in Dadong in the Book of Songs. Weaver Girl and Morning Glory in the poem are just the names of two constellations in the sky, and there is no relationship between them. Hanshu Geography: "Yue (Yue) is also the dividing line between Petunia (Cowherd) and Wu Nu (Weaver Girl)." ?

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, among the Nineteen Ancient Poems written by Anonymous, there was a poem "The Distant Altair", from which we can see that Altair and Weaver Girl were lovers who loved each other, but they were not identified as husband and wife in the poem. In written records, the earliest mention of Cowherd and Weaver Girl as husband and wife should be the Selected Works compiled by Xiao Tong in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Among them, there is a note in "Luo Shen Fu", which reads: "Petunia is the husband, Weaver is the woman, and the star of Weaver Petunia is beside the river drums everywhere, and it will be a while on July 7." At this time, the story of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" and the plot of Tanabata meeting have begun to take shape, from two stars in the sky to husband and wife.

But in the imagination of the ancients, the couple in the sky and the couple on the ground are basically the same, so there is no tragic color in the story. As for why Penny and Weaver stayed for a short time on July 7th? The original text does not explain. According to posterity's speculation, on the one hand, it may be that the stars in the sky are the brightest in July every year, and the morning glory and the weaver girl are very close.

On the other hand, July 7th is the day of folk custom "begging for cleverness". The working people regard the Weaver Girl as an expert and can weave a hundred horses in ten days, so they "beg for cleverness" from her. As a result, people mixed the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with folk customs. As time goes on, the story continues to enrich and develop.

The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl and Tanabata originated from the astrological theory. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were records of "Cowherd" and "Weaver Girl" in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong. Here, the two stars, Weaver Girl and Morning Glory, only lead to a metaphorical association as natural star images, and there is no story.

At this time, as a cultural factor, they began to enter the literary system. It is this "factor" that has prepared the potential cultural conditions for the emergence of this legend. Wang Yi's Songs of Chu Zhang Sentences (Volume 17) Shouzhi: "Hold up the evil spirits hidden in heaven and shoot traitors with the arc of heaven." Expressed the theory of marriage between cowherd and weaver girl.

Cui Yan's "Four Moon Orders" in the Eastern Han Dynasty "On July 7, the river drum (the astronomical name of the Altair), the weaver girl and the two stars will meet." As can be seen from the above materials, people have gradually associated love stories with two stars who are far apart.

Nineteen Ancient Poems revealed this information for the first time. Here, two stars, Penny and Weaver Girl, have already played roles. The Weaver Girl misses Penny all day long, longing to meet each other, but "there is nothing to say in the water." From then on, it was woven into a love tragedy in which loving couples were isolated.

A Brief Introduction to the Traditional Classic Plays of Huangmei Opera in A Fairy Match;

Fairy couple is a love story in ancient China. The original text is an old book handed down from the people. 195 1 was first adapted by Ban Youshu of Anqing Cultural Center, in which Lu Yu participated in the first East China Drama Exhibition and won the grand prize.

The adaptation of "Friends of the Class" changed the lengthy folk book into seven plays, changed the seven fairies from being ordered to come down to earth on their own initiative, turned the scholars into working people, and turned Fu Shan, a foreigner of Fu, into a bully landlord. In short, the basic framework of this book is formed.

Ban Youshu, who graduated from Chinese Department of Anhui University before liberation, is good at classical poetry. When he adapted The Fairy Couple, he filled in many lyrics with classical poems, which laid the foundation for the modern Fairy Couple. Later, Lu borrowed an adaptation of Ban You Shu and adapted it again on this basis, but it basically did not go beyond the framework already laid by Ban You Shu.

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