Introduction: The most familiar legend about the Qiqiao Festival is the legend about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The persistence of this couple moved the world, so there is a festival on July 7th at Magpie Bridge. See opportunities for details. In the process of people celebrating the Qiqiao Festival, many interesting stories happened. So, what are the stories about the Qiqiao Festival? Let’s take a look at the legend of the Qiqiao Festival.
What are the legends of the Qiqiao Festival? What are the stories of the Qiqiao Festival?
The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated from star worship. It is the deification and personification of Altair and Vega. product. The prototype of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was first seen in the Book of Songs. It was later spread and refined through generations, and finally formed a beautiful and moving mythological story known to women and children.
The Weaver Girl is the legendary daughter of the Jade Emperor. She is constantly spinning clouds and brocades for the sky. Niulang is from Nanyang, Henan, and his name is Ling'er. After the death of his parents, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law, Ma, was very unruly and forced Ling'er to live alone and only gave him a thin old cow. One day, the old cow told the cowherd to hide under the tea bean rack at night and he could see the fairies bathing in the Milky Way. The fairy who peeks at you for seven consecutive nights is the wife who is willing to marry you. In this way, the Cowherd took the cart pulled by the old ox and picked up the Weaver Girl from heaven. The couple lived a happy life with the man farming and the woman weaving. Within three years, the Weaver girl gave birth to a pair of children. The boy was named Brother Jin and the girl was named Yumei. Unexpectedly, on July 7th, the Queen Mother discovered that Weaver Girl had descended to earth and got married. She was furious and led her heavenly soldiers and generals to capture Weaver Girl and take her back to heaven. The Cowherd picked up a basket, lifted Jin Ge and Yu Mei, put on the leather shoes of the dead old cow, and jumped into the air, reluctant to leave. When the Queen Mother saw this, she pulled out a golden hairpin and drew it behind her. Suddenly, a turbulent Milky Way separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides, and they could only look at each other from a distance without being able to reunite. Later, the Jade Emperor heard the news that the family could not reunite, so he authorized the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month: at that time, magpies built a magpie bridge on the Tianhe River, and their families met on the bridge:
The love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been widely sung by the world. The sad lyrics of "Magpie Bridge Immortal" by Qin Guan, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, have left endless aftertaste for the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl:
Xianyun Nongqiao , Flying stars flow with hatred, Yinhan travels far away in secret. Once the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will defeat countless people in the world! Tenderness is like water, good times are like dreams, can you bear to look at the Magpie Bridge on your way back? If the love between two people lasts for a long time, how can it last day and night?
The story of Li Yu’s poems on Chinese Valentine’s Day that brought disaster upon him
Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was killed because he composed poems on Chinese Valentine’s Day.
In the eighth year of Kaibao's reign, the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty. Li Yu and his family were taken to Zhijing as prisoners, and were nominally named General Zuo Qianniuwei and Marquis of Disobedience by Song Taizu. In fact, from then on, Li Yu lived a life of hardship and humiliation under the fence of others. Song Taizu often called him to his side and asked him to compete with the literati of the Song Dynasty in composing lyrics. Due to the very high level of Li Yu's lyrics, no scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty could match him. This made Song Taizu very angry, and he often satirized him and said: "If I can write poetry again, I will only be the king of subjugation." At this time, Li Yu always felt humiliated. Not only that, when Li Yu lived in the Northern Song Dynasty, although he carried some money with him, he was kind-hearted. Many courtiers before the Southern Tang Dynasty came to him to borrow money, and he gave it to them very generously. Gradually, the money he brought from the Southern Tang Dynasty All the money was spent, and in order to support his family, Li Yu had to bite the bullet and ask Song Taizu to borrow it. At first, Song Taizu gave him some living expenses. Later, more and more times, Song Taizu was no longer so generous and only gave him some symbolic charity, which made Li Yu's life difficult. What made Li Yu even more unbearable was that Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, who succeeded Taizu, coveted Xiao Zhou's beauty and often asked Xiao Zhou to come to his palace to sleep. Every time he comes back, Xiao Zhouhou will burst into tears in front of Li Yu. Facing his sad lover, Li Yu felt deep regret and sorrow for himself - as the king of a country, he could not protect the people of a country; as a man, he could not even protect his beloved. How desolate and indignant Li Yu's heart will be!
In 978, Xu Yi, an old minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, went to visit Li Yu on the order of Song Taizong. When Li Yu met his old minister, he couldn't help but lament his life of being dependent on others. This was reported to Song Taizong by Xu Xuan. Song Taizong was very angry after hearing this. He thought: "Well, Li Yu, I am not gentle to you anymore. Not only did I not order you to be killed, but I also supported your whole family. You also Not satisfied, he complained again and again. "On Li Yu's birthday on July 7th of that year, Li Yu called all the maids who had followed him to the Northern Song Dynasty to gather together. At the gathering, he recited his last work - "Poppy Beauty" with tears in his eyes.
Chinese Valentine's Day poem "Poem Poppy"
Li Yu
When did the spring flowers and autumn moon come, how much do we know about the past. There was an east wind in the small building last night, and the motherland could not bear to look back at the bright moon.
The carved jade bricks should be disturbed, but the beauty has changed. Asking you how much sorrow you can have is like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
This matter soon reached the ears of Song Taizong. Song Taizong was very angry, so he gave Li Yu a cup of poisonous wine and sent Xu Yi to deliver it.
After Li Yu took it, his whole body convulsed and he was in great pain. Soon he passed away with great grief and regret.
The legend of worshiping the bed mother on July 7
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a scholar Guo Hua who fell in love with a girl on his way to Beijing to take the exam. Unexpectedly, Guo Hua fell in love with a girl at first sight. He died of a sudden illness and the girl buried him under her bed. Ten months later, the girl gave birth to a son. In order to comfort Guo Hua's spirit in heaven, the girl often burned incense at the bedside to worship him. In the human world, a girl prays to the bed mother to protect her child from growing up safely. People followed suit one after another, and the custom of worshiping the bed mother on July 7 spread. At this time, every family brings their children to worship their bed mother. At sunset, children offer meat, rice, wine, candies and other offerings on their beds, burn incense and kowtow, praying for the protection and blessings of their bed mother.