Tanabata has a long history, and now it is Valentine's Day, so the celebration scene must be lively. In fact, the most famous legend about Tanabata is about Valentine's Day in China. Few people haven't heard the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The following is the legend about Tanabata that I compiled for you, hoping to help you!
Legend of Tanabata 1 It is said that Cowherd's parents died young and were often abused by his elder sister-in-law, only accompanied by an old cow. One day, the old cow gave him a plan to teach him how to marry the weaver girl. On that day, the beautiful fairies did bathe in the Milky Way and play in the water. Then the cowherd, hiding in the reeds, suddenly ran out and took the clothes of the Weaver Girl. The panicked fairies hurried ashore, dressed and flew away, leaving only the weaver girl. At Cowherd's request, Weaver Girl agreed to be his wife. After marriage, the cowherd and the weaver girl loved each other and lived a very happy life. Weaver gave birth to a son and a daughter to Cowherd. Later, the old cow was dying. He told the cowherd to keep its skin and put it on for help when he was in trouble. After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the cowhide and buried the cow on the hillside.
When the marriage between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd was known by the Jade Emperor and the Heavenly Queen Mother, they flew into a rage and ordered the gods to take the Weaver Girl back. When the Cowherd was away, the gods took the Weaver Girl. Cowherd didn't see Weaver when he came home, so he quickly put on cowhide and chased after him with two children. On the verge of catching up, the queen mother was in a hurry, tore off the golden hairpin on her head and rowed to the Milky Way. The once shallow Milky Way suddenly became stormy, and the Cowherd couldn't go any further. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only look at each other across the river with tears, forever and ever, and the Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager can't resist their sincere feelings, allowing them to meet once every July 7th. According to legend, on the seventh day of July, human magpies will fly to the sky to build a magpie bridge for the cowherd and weaver girl in the Milky Way. In addition, in the dead of night on Tanabata, people can also hear the love story of cowherd and weaver girl in the sky under the grape trellis or other fruit trellis.
Legend of Qixi 2 Long ago, there was an orphan who lived with his brother and sister-in-law. He is clever and diligent, but his sister-in-law still doesn't like him. Before dawn, she drove him up the hill to herd cattle. Everyone calls him Cowherd. Years later, his brother and sister-in-law separated, and the heartless sister-in-law only gave him a broken house and an old cow. Since then, the cowherd has been grazing cattle and chopping wood during the day, and sleeping with the old cow in the broken house at night.
One day, the cowherd drove the cow into a strange forest, where the mountains and rivers were beautiful and the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant. Cowherd saw nine fairies driving Xiangyun on the grass by the river, so he took off his colorful clothes and jumped into the crystal clear river. The cowherd stared at the youngest beautiful fairy. I was fascinated when the old cow suddenly said, "She is a weaver girl in the sky. Just take away the colorful clothes and she will be your wife. " Cowherd quietly followed the tree and quietly took away the colorful clothes of Weaver Girl. Near noon, other fairies wore colorful clothes and drove away in Xiangyun. Only the weaver girl in colorful clothes can't be found. At this time, the Cowherd came out from behind the tree and proposed to the Weaver Girl. Seeing that Cowherd was honest, hardworking and strong, Weaver Girl nodded shyly.
After the cowherd and the weaver girl tied the knot, men plowed and women wove, respecting and loving each other. Two years later, Weaver Girl gave birth to a boy and a girl. However, when the Emperor heard that the Weaver Girl had married this world, he flew into a rage. On the seventh day of July, the heavenly queen ordered the heavenly soldiers to catch the weaver girl. With the help of the old cow, the sad cowherd caught up with his children in her basket. On the verge of catching up, the queen mother pulled out the golden hairpin, and a choppy Tianhe appeared at the foot of the cowherd.
The sad Weaver Girl and Cowherd took their children, one in Hedong and the other in Hexi, weeping at each other. Their cries touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew to Tianhe in an instant to build a magpie bridge. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl finally met on the Magpie Bridge, but the Queen Mother had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet once a year on the seventh day of July.
Tanabata Legend 3 The Origin of Tanabata Legend
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The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is one of the four major folk legends in China, and it is also the earliest and most widely circulated legend in China, which occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese folk literature.
Qixi Queqiaohui wallpaper
Tracing the formation of Valentine's Day in China from the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the time was in the Warring States Period and the place was in Chu State. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong, there is a poem about the Weaver Girl, who leads the cows all day, but doesn't obey them. This is the earliest written record of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and it is the embryonic form of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There is also a poem "Han Guang in Nan Zhou" related to the Weaver Girl, saying that Han has a wandering girl, and you can't help thinking about it. According to historical records, the Chinese in the poem refers to Hanshui and Tianhan (Galaxy), and the wandering girl refers to the goddess of Hanshui or Vega. Chu people are far away from Jianghan area and pay great attention to the worship of wandering women in Han Dynasty. In addition, among Chu people, Altair is often confused with Hegu Samsung. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the annotation in the Chronicle of Jingchu written by Nanyang people said: Cowherd Star, Jingzhou is called Hegu. In the Han Dynasty stone relief in Nanyang, the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid are the river drums and cows. Nanyang, located in the north of Hanshui River, is known as "luring cows by lying on a pillow, pushing Jianghan, covering three mountains and bringing a group of lakes". During the Warring States Period, Nanyang belonged to Chu, and Chu was in Danyang, Xichuan, which was the birthplace of Chu culture with profound cultural accumulation. This historical and cultural background is one of the important conditions for the formation of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Nanyang Han Dynasty Stone Relief and Stars
The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated from the worship of stars in ancient times, which is the result of people deifying and personalizing the stars in the sky. Altair is located in the east of the Milky Way, Vega is located in the west of the Milky Way, and the two stars face each other across the river, which makes people have endless reverie. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated in Chu State. In the Han Dynasty, with the development of astronomy, its legends became more extensive, concrete, vivid and vivid, and became important materials for painting and sculpture. The Han Dynasty is an important period in the history of astronomy development in China. Nanyang in the Han Dynasty is one of the famous cities in China, and it has become the intersection of the development of culture and science and technology in the north and south. The collision of various cultural factors has produced profound cultural accumulation. A generation of astronomy master Zhang Heng was born here. In this context, a large number of Han Dynasty stone reliefs appeared in Nanyang, among which the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl constellation vividly combined the stars with legends, which is a historical necessity and one of the powerful evidences that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl legend originated in Nanyang.
Nanyang Silk and Weaver Girl
According to documents, sericulture and silk industry existed in Nanyang Zhou Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was one of the eight silk producing areas in China. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial daughter Sang recorded in Zhang Heng's Du Nan Fu came from Nanyang and became famous all over the world. Many versions of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are inseparable from the weaving technology of the Weaver Girl. In the folklore of Tian Kai, the birthplace of Pangu, it is recorded how the Weaver Girl taught the skills of sericulture, reeling and weaving. This is closely related to the famous Nanyang silk. Begging for cleverness, which originated from Valentine's Day in China, is mainly due to the fact that the Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, and she is ingenious and admired by girls on earth. Today, when people talk about begging for cleverness, they often quote the record of "Dream in a Dream" written by Nanyang people in the Southern and Northern Dynasties: July 7 is the night when Petunia and Weaver Girl get together. At night, do women tie colorful buildings, wear seven-hole needles or use gold and silver? ? Stone is the needle, and Chen Guaguo is clever in court. According to the National History of Chu published by Henan University Press, Jingchu is located in the south of Henan, with Hengyang in the south and Jiujiang in the east. The Jingchu before the Western Zhou Dynasty mentioned in the literature is in the area from Nanyang Basin to Jianghan Plain in Henan Province. So Nanyang is located in the land of Jingchu, thus forming the custom of begging for cleverness, as evidenced by a folk song:
Tonight on Tanabata, I looked at the blue sky and led the cowherd and weaver girl across the river bridge.
Every family watches the autumn moon, and every family wears HongLing.
The above witnessed the initial relationship between the Weaver Girl in Kit Kat and Nanyang Silk.
Nanyang in folklore
The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is widely circulated among the people all over the country, with many versions, but the core content is basically the same. Myths and legends have formed the same story from birth to spread. Generally speaking, adhering to the place name and scenery of the place of origin is a manifestation of the localization of myths and legends, which makes people feel emotionally or intuitively that this story is more credible and spread more widely. According to many modern folklore publications, most of them record that the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Nanyang. For example, Cheng Jianjun's "Folk Myth" 1997 edition of Haiyan Publishing House said that Niu Lang was a native of mulberry forest in Nanyang County. Su Jie published by Religious Culture Publishing House and Complete Works of China Folk Art published by Three Gorges Publishing House record that there is an intelligent and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang. In Tongbai County, Nanyang, the birthplace of Pangu Tiankai, there is another version of the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl: When Pangu created the world, because there was no food on the ground at that time, cows stole food from the barn and scattered it to the world, and were given heaven by the Jade Emperor, and their legs were broken. Sun Ruyi cured the cow with Baihua dew, and the cow helped the cowherd and the weaver girl become a family. Later, regardless of punishment, the scalper helped Weaver and Cowherd steal silkworm blue, silkworm eggs, looms and looms from the Heavenly Palace. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been working together and living happily. This story also describes how the Weaver Girl taught the skills of sericulture, silk reeling and silk weaving. The characters and places in different versions of the legend all point to Nanyang, which fully conforms to the characteristics of the localization of myths and legends.
Tanabata Legend 4 The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated from The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong: "Weaver Girl has seven waves all day long. Even if the weaver girl is busy, she can't knit a stripe well. Give him a cow instead of a box. " It means that the three-star statue of the Weaver Girl walks seven times a day with her feet apart, but even so, she can't weave patterns. The bright Altair cannot be used for driving.
Historical Records records the operation of celestial bodies, including "its northern river drum, river drum big star, general; Left and right, left and right generals ","its northern weaver girl, weaver girl, heavenly daughter also "sentence. The river drum is the Altair, the big star in the middle and two small stars on the left and right. This is the mythical prototype of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and their children. Vega, also known as Tiansun, is also the myth source that Vega is the seventh granddaughter of heaven and earth.
By the end of the Han Dynasty, nineteen ancient poems wrote: "The Cowherd and the Star are far away, and the Jiao Jiao River is a girl from China. Skillful hands, make a loom. There is no chapter all day, and tears are pouring down. What's the difference between a clear river and a shallow one? Ying Ying is easy to water, and his pulse is silent. " For example, in Cao Pi's Ge Yanxing, it is said that "the cowherd and the weaver girl face each other from a distance, and you alone cannot limit the river beam". They have regarded Weaver Girl and Penny as lovers. It can be seen that the Qin and Han dynasties should be the early stage of the formation of the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. There is a record that "Petunia failed to marry Weaver Girl" in Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Crouching Tiger Area, Hubei Province.
The story of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" has been roughly outlined in Yin Yun's novels in the Southern Dynasties. At that time, there were many similar records, such as Chronicle of Jingchu written by Zonggu, Continuation and Record of Qi State written by Wu Jun, and Record of Local Conditions and Customs written by Zhou Chu, all of which told the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl meeting on Tanabata. In the early 20th century, two stories, Tiankunlun in Search of Ji Shen and Guohan in Taiping Guangji, were discovered in Dunhuang Grottoes, which had a great influence on the completion of the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl in Ming and Qing Dynasties.