Meaning of Tianluo Girl: Tianluo Girl is a character in a local folklore story in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, from Sou Shen Hou Jie (搜神后记)卷五.

The story goes that the Heavenly Emperor knew that Xie Duan had lost both his parents and was alone since he was a child, and sympathized with him, and saw that he was frugal and peaceful, so he sent his goddess, the Tian Luo girl, down to the earth to help him. The story is also circulated in Luohu, Shehong County, Sichuan Province, with a similar storyline.

Tianluo girl original:

Xie Duan, Jinan Houguan also. He lost his parents when he was young and was raised by his neighbors. The year 17 or 18, respectfully self-protecting. Without a wife, the townspeople **** pity, would like to marry a woman, did not get. One day, the end of the field to get a large snail, thought the foreign objects, take to return, stored in the urn, the animal dozens of days.

The end of every morning to the wild, but also, see their households have rice and drink soup, such as someone for the person. The first time I saw this, I asked my neighbors about it. The neighbors all said they had not done so. After the end of the cock-crowing and out, Pingdan sneak back, peeping outside the hedge, see a young girl from the urn out to the stove under the fire. The end of the door, and asked: "Where did the new woman come from, and the phase for cooking?"

The woman was greatly confused, want to return to the urn, but has not been allowed, said: "I, the sky Hanzhong Su female also. The emperor of the heavens wished that the emperor is less lonely, so make me right for you to guard the house. Ten years, so that the Secretary is rich and get a woman, should return. Now my form has been revealed, it is not appropriate to stay. Keep this shell, to store rice and grain, often can not lack." Duan asked him to stay, but he refused to do so. When the day suddenly wind and rain, swiftly a son and go.