Who is the Cowherd? Detailed history~~~

The story of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" is one of the best legends spread in our country's folk history. The simple love between Cowherd and Weaver Girl is people's yearning and yearning for a loving life; The loyal and diligent cow also represents people's love for labor and expectations for a peaceful life...; the separation of life and death in heaven and earth, the happy reunion of meeting on the magpie bridge, interpret the ancient love, Danyang is said to be "the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" "The place where the legend originated. Therefore, Danyang built a group of sculptures on the banks of the Vanilla River in the early years for people to recall traditional culture and to weave scenes of modern and moving comedies. It is said that countless boys and girls in love come here every year." The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met and got married.

Chen Shuaifo, chairman of the China I Ching Association, believes that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is the most famous folklore in our country and the earliest story about stars by our people. There is this passage in "Shu Yi Ji" by Ren Fang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties: "East of the river, there is a beautiful woman, the son of the Emperor of Heaven. She is a clever female worker who works hard year after year to weave clothes made of clouds and silk. There is no joy in the hard work and her appearance is not beautiful. The Emperor of Heaven took pity on her and married him to the Cowherd and the Cowherd. From then on, the merits of Weaver and the Weaver were abandoned. The Emperor was angry and blamed her on Hedong. There are many versions of the story about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The most well-known is: According to legend, the Cowherd's parents died young and he was often abused by his brother and sister-in-law. He only had an old cow for company. One day, Lao Niu gave him a plan to marry Weaver Girl. On that day, the beautiful fairies went to the Milky Way to bathe and play in the water. At this time, the Cowherd who was hiding among the reeds suddenly ran out and took away the Weaver Girl's clothes. The panicked fairies hurriedly went ashore, put on their clothes and flew away, leaving only the Weaver Girl. At the Cowherd's plea, the Weaver Girl agreed to be his wife. After marriage, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl farmed and weaved, fell in love with each other, and lived a very happy life. The Weaver Girl also gave birth to a son and a daughter to the Cowherd. Later, when the old cow was about to die, she told the Cowherd to keep its skin and put it on for help in times of emergency. After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the hide and buried the cow on the hillside. When the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother found out about the marriage between Weaver Girl and Cowherd, they were furious and ordered the gods to capture Weaver Girl from the lower world. The god took advantage of the fact that the Cowherd was not at home and captured the Weaver Girl. When the Cowherd returned home and saw the Weaver Girl missing, he hurriedly put on his cowhide and carried two children to chase after her. Seeing that she was about to catch up, the Queen Mother became anxious and pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and struck towards the Milky Way. The once pure Milky Way suddenly turned into turbid waves and the Cowherd could no longer get through. From then on, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could only look at each other across the river with tears in their eyes for eternity. The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother could not overcome their sincere feelings and allowed them to meet once a year on July 7th. According to legend, every July 7th, the joy of the world is celebrated. The bird will fly to the sky and build a bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet in the Milky Way. In addition, when the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day is quiet, people can still hear the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's loving words in the sky under the grape rack or other fruit racks. Of course, this is just a legend. The ritual of begging for clever things originated from the original belief of the ancient Weaver Girl and Mulberry God. This belief combined with the saying that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet each other on July 7 every year has become our current Qixi Qiqiao folk belief. The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the New Year Painting is one of the best legends spread in our country's folk history. The simple love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is people's yearning and yearning for a life of love; and the loyal and diligent Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Son, also represents people's love for labor and expectations for a peaceful life...; the separation of life and death in heaven and earth, the happy reunion of meeting on the magpie bridge, interpreting ancient love, Danyang is said to be the origin of the legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" Therefore, in the early years, Danyang built a group of sculptures on the banks of the Vanilla River for people to reminisce about traditional culture and to weave scenes of modern and moving comedies. It is said that every year, countless boys and girls in love come to "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" Meet and tie the knot beside you.

[Edit this paragraph] The Legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and Chu Culture

Overview

Tracing the process of the formation of the Qixi Festival from the Legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the time was during the Warring States Period, and the place was Chu State. After searching the scriptures, "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Dadong" contains the poem "Standing on top of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, she will have seven crotches all day long...I will look at the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl without serving them." This is the earliest written record of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The prototype of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There is also a poem about the Weaver Girl, "Zhou Nan Han Guang", which states that "there are wandering girls in the Han Dynasty, but you can't ask for them". According to historical records, the "Han" in the poem refers to both the Han River and the Heavenly Han (Galaxy), and the "Wandering Girl" refers to the goddess of the Han River or the star goddess Vega. The people of Chu were located in the Jianghan area, so they worshiped the "Wandering Women of the Han Dynasty" in temples. In addition, people in the Chu region often confuse Altair with the three stars of Hegu. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zong Nao, a native of Nanyang, wrote an annotation in "The Chronicles of Jingchu": "The Altair star is called 'Hegu' in Jingzhou." In the Nanyang Han Dynasty portrait stone "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Constellation", the river drum is used as the morning bull. Nanyang, located "north of the Han River", is known as "resting on cows while pedaling across the Yangtze River, with three mountains and lakes on its lap". During the Warring States Period, Nanyang belonged to Chu, and the capital of Chu was in Danyang, Xichuan. It was the birthplace of Chu culture and has a profound cultural heritage. Such historical background and cultural heritage are one of the important conditions for the formation of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Nanyang Han Portrait Stones and Stars

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated from the star worship of the ancients, which was the result of people deifying and personifying the stars in the sky. Altair is located in the east of the Milky Way, and Vega is in the west of the Milky Way. The two stars face each other across the river, which makes people have endless reveries.

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated from Chu. In the Han Dynasty, with the development of astronomy, the legend became more extensive, concrete, vivid and vivid, and became an important material for paintings and sculptures. The Han Dynasty was an important period in the history of the development of astronomy in my country, and Nanyang in the Han Dynasty was one of the famous cities in the country, and became the intersection of northern and southern culture and technological development. The collision of various cultural factors produced profound cultural accumulation. Zhang Heng, a master of astronomy, was also born here... Against this background, a large number of Han Dynasty stone sculptures representing the distant and profound space appeared in Nanyang. Among them, the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Constellation" vividly combines the stars with the legend. It is a historical necessity and the origin of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. One of the strong evidences of Yu Nanyang.

Nanyang Silk and Weaver Girl

According to literature, Nanyang had sericulture and silk industries in the Zhou Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was one of the eight major silk producing areas in the country. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Emperor's Daughter's Mulberry" recorded in Zhang Heng's "Nandu 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 Weaver Girl's textile technology. The folklore of the birthplace of Pangu Kaitian describes how the Weaver Girl taught the techniques of silkworm rearing, silk reeling, and silk weaving. This is closely related to the famous Nanyang Silk. The custom of begging for skills derived from the Chinese Valentine's Day is mainly because the Weaver Girl is the "daughter of the Emperor of Heaven", has a clever mind and is worshiped by the girls in the world. When people today talk about begging for clever things, they often cite the record in "Jing Meng Sui Sui Ji" written by Zong Nao, a native of Nanyang in the Southern and Northern Dynasties: July 7th is the night when the Morning Bull and the Weaver Girl gather. That evening, women of other houses made colorful decorations on the pavilion, pierced seven-hole needles, or used gold, silver, and stones as needles, and laid out melons and fruits in the courtyard to beg for skills. According to the "History of Chu State" written by Henan University Press, "Jingchu North extends from the south of present-day Henan, to Hengyang in the south, and to Jiujiang in the east..." The "Jingchu" referred to in documents before the Western Zhou Dynasty should be from the Nanyang Basin in present-day Henan to Jianghan. "It can be seen from this that Nanyang is located in the land of Jingchu, and thus the custom of begging for clever things has been formed. This grand occasion is evidenced by a folk song: Look at the blue sky tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day, the morning glory and the Weaver Girl cross the river bridge, every family begs for clever tricks and looks at the autumn moon. There are tens of thousands of red threads. The above testifies to the origin and relationship between the Weaver Girl in "Kit Kiao" and Nanyang Silk.

Nanyang in Folklore

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is widely spread among the people across the country, with many versions, but the core content is basically the same. Myths and legends form stereotyped stories from their origin to their spread. It is generally attached to the place names and customs of the place where it originated. This is a form of localization of myths and legends, which makes people emotionally or intuitively believe that the story is more credible and spreads widely. According to many modern folklore publications, most of them record that the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated in Nanyang. For example, the 1997 edition of Cheng Jianjun's "Folk Myths" by Haiyan Publishing House states that "The Cowherd is a native of Sanglin in Nanyang County." Religious Culture Publishing Both the "Festival Customs" of the Society and the "Encyclopedia of Chinese Folk Art" of the Three Gorges Publishing House record that "it is said that a long time ago, there was a smart and loyal young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City...". Another version of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is circulated in the birthplace of Pangu in Tongbai County, Nanyang: when Pangu created the world, the scalpers stole the grains from the warehouse and spread them to the world because there was no grain on the ground at that time. Therefore, they were killed by the Jade Emperor. Give heaven, break your leg. Sun Ruyi used flower dew to heal the scalper's injury, and the scalper helped the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl get married. Later, regardless of being punished, the scalper helped the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd steal silkworm increments, silkworm seeds, looms, weaving shuttles, etc. from the Heavenly Palace. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have lived a happy life. The story also describes how the Weaver Girl taught the techniques of raising silkworms, reeling silk, and weaving silk and satin. The characters and places in the legends in different versions all point to Nanyang, which is completely in line with the localization characteristics of myths and legends.

The long history of Nanyang Oxen

The localization of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is not only related to the characters, places and places in the legend, but also reflects the characteristics of the farming area. Cattle are an indispensable force in farming areas and the main "productive force" in farming. At the same time, the cow is also the main character in the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Nanyang cattle are one of the top five fine-bred cattle in my country and are well-known at home and abroad. Nanyang cattle has a long history, and naturally there are many "cow" stories: "Funiu Mountain", "Chang'e and Black Bull", "Baili Xi Cattle Raising" ..., The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the most exciting passages. Today's Nanyang is a large agricultural region, and the agricultural field in the Han Dynasty was also very brilliant. Zhang Heng's "Nandu Fu" praising his hometown includes "hundreds of valleys, vassals and verandas, wings and wings". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Nanyang cattle had entered the stage of house and pen feeding. Bailixi, the famous prime minister of Qin who was born in Nanyang and raised in Nanyang, was good at raising cattle. During his downturn, he made a living by herding cattle in Qilingang, west of Nanyang City. He once heard that Prince Zhou liked cattle, so he raised cattle as a way to advance his career. The staircase has become a legend. During the Han Dynasty, bullfighting became a popular activity in Nanyang. As a result, a large number of cattle images appeared in the world-famous Nanyang Han portrait stones. It is not surprising that the "cow" culture with such origins gave rise to the "Cowherd" of Niujiazhuang in the west of Nanyang City.

[Edit this paragraph] The legend of the Miao Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

Every Dragon Day in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people around Leigong Mountain celebrate the New Year. The most important activities in the festival are drum playing, Lusheng dancing, horse racing and swimming. Among them, the scenes of girls playing drums and young men playing Lusheng and borrowing flower ribbons from girls are the most touching.

Legend has it that these activities began on the day the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl returned to the world. Later, they gradually became customs and were passed down from generation to generation. A long time ago, there was a young man at the foot of Miaoling Mountain. He lost his parents when he was young, and people didn't know his name (actually, the one who had a name was Sun Shouyi). They called him Cowherd because they saw him and a buffalo dependent on each other. Cowherd is loyal, hardworking and kind, and everyone respects him very much. The Cowherd's family was poor and had neither good land to cultivate nor mountains and forests to cultivate. He had to work with the buffaloes all year round for the rich man and lived a difficult life. One day, the buffalo suddenly spoke to the Cowherd and said: Cowherd, you are so old, you should have a family. The Cowherd thought someone was talking to him. He looked left and right and saw no one. It seemed to be a buffalo. But how could a cow talk? Before the Cowherd had time to think about it, the Buffalo opened his mouth again and said, "I'm talking to you." Let me tell you, I am not an ordinary cow, but a god. I see that you are hardworking and simple, and I came here to help you start a family and live a happy life. The Cowherd looked at the talking buffalo and was very surprised. Thinking of his lonely life, he said to the cow with tears in his eyes: ...You know my situation. Who will marry a poor person like me? Able hands can create wealth, hard work and bravery are the gifts of love. The buffalo said to Niulang, and told him in detail the strange things about the fairy descending to the earth to swim and the weaver girl admiring the human life. The Cowherd followed the buffalo's instructions and silently came to the edge of a large lake on the banks of the Qingshui River, waiting for a miracle to happen. I saw lake after lake, sparkling, fish roaming, mandarin ducks playing, thousands of willows on the lakeshore, azaleas blooming red... In this intoxicating scenery of mountains and waters, the Cowherd hid under a cluster of flowers, anxiously Waiting. In the afternoon, a miracle happened: seven fairies holding feather fans descended from the sky and floated down to the lake. Take off your clothes and take off your skirt and go swimming in the lake. They were jumping or trampling in pursuit of entertainment. The fairies' graceful and carefree demeanor stunned the Cowherd. It took him a long time to remember the buffalo's words. The Cowherd gently walked to the place where the fairies put their clothes, collected the clothes of the smallest fairy, and then sang a beautiful song with a ah-ah sound. The fairies were mesmerized by Qi Man's affectionate singing. When they realized that it was the descendants who were singing, they all shyly ran to the lake, put on their skirts, and wanted to fly to the sky. But the Weaver Girl couldn't find her dress, so she had to go back to the lake and rely on the water to cover her beautiful body. At this time, the Cowherd walked out of the flowers and came to the fairies. When the fairies saw the mortals, they all raised their feather fans and flew into the sky. Only the Weaver Girl stood shyly in the lake. The Cowherd sang a song about traveling to the Weaver Girl: The fir trees on the Miaoling Mountains are the straightest, the mountain flowers in the Miao family area are the brightest, the water in the Qingshui River is the clearest, the cover of the cartoon Cowherd and the Weaver Girl My dear girl, you are the most beautiful in the world. The tranquil lake has been disturbed by you. The joyful Lusheng is only willing to sing for you. My flying heart is tied to you. My dear girl, you say What should I do? The Weaver Girl said softly: The disturbed lake will be quiet when people leave. The Lusheng should sing for human love. If I disturb my brother's mind, he will be quiet after I leave. Please return my clothes, feathers and fan, and let me go home. Cowherd said: Since you have the intention to come to the world, why do you want to go back? It's not difficult for me to repay my sister's things, as long as my sister agrees... Promise to what? Weaver Girl asked. Marry me, said the Cowherd. The Weaver Girl blushed and said: You are a man on earth, and I am a girl in heaven. Heaven and earth are far apart, so there is no reason for the Weaver Girl in heaven to marry into the human world. The Cowherd said: Isn't the most precious gift in heaven and earth all love? The Cowherd's simple and honest feelings made the Weaver Girl fall in love and admire him. The human life made the girl envious and nostalgic, so she accepted the Cowherd's love. The Cowherd was filled with joy and jumped up and ran to get the Weaver Girl's clothes. At this time, he thought: What if the Weaver Girl puts on her dress and flies away? He hesitated. The Weaver Girl saw through his mind and said to him: I can fly mainly because of the feather fan. Without the feather fan, I can't fly. Just put the feather fan away. With the feather fan, I can't help but fly! The Cowherd covered his heart with the feather fan and returned the dress to the Weaver Girl. The Weaver Girl finished dressing and walked with the Cowherd. When they arrived in the village, they paid homage to the elders in the village and became recognized as husband and wife, and then walked to the Cowherd's home. When he got to the door, the Cowherd stopped. He was in a dilemma. How could such a shabby house with no clothes or cover accommodate the beauty of the gods? The Weaver Girl understood the Cowherd's painstakingly, so she comforted him and said, "Go into the house, you idiot." The house is not ugly, as long as it can protect you from rain and wind. As for the clothes and coverings, I have knitted them all, so you don’t need to worry. The Cowherd sighed and led the Weaver Girl into the thatched cottage. Ho! Inside, he saw a red bed with embroidered quilt, colorful clothes and tents, bamboo chairs and bead curtains, and cigarette smoke... The Cowherd was shocked! It took me a long time to hold Weaver Girl's hands in my hands, and I deeply thanked her for her exquisite craftsmanship. Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon fly like a shuttle. Soon, they gave birth to their first child. The son is innocent, lively and smart. Niu Lang came back from a tiring day in the mountains and felt very happy when he saw the lively and lovely children. Weaver Girl couldn't bear the fact that Cowherd came to work in the wind and rain all year round, so she wanted to trade jobs with him.

One day, the Weaver Girl said to the Cowherd, "It's hard enough for you to work outside alone. Today you can take care of the children at home, and I will do the work in the field." Cowherd also wanted to play with his baby, so he agreed. The child is used to being with his mother. How can his father take care of the doll? When the child starts crying, no toys can soothe him. The Cowherd remembered the feather fan hidden on the roof beam, so he went up to get it for the child, and the baby was happy. After a few days, the Cowherd went to work in the mountains, and the Weaver Girl took care of her children at home. The little guy just kept crying, leaving his mother helpless. The child turns out to be very well-behaved. Why is he so troubled today? Weaver Girl didn't know why. The child cried and shouted, raising his little finger and pointing to the beam. What will be on the beam? Zhi Nu set up the stairs and went up to look for it. ah! It turns out to be my feather fan! Seeing her flying wings, Weaver Girl had many emotions. Their happy love life made them forget time. It's too fast. I have been away from the Heavenly Palace for many days. It's time to go back. If I don't go back, the irritable Heaven will bring disaster to the world. Weaver Girl said to herself. However, how can one be willing to leave behind her husband, children and everything else in the world? However, in order to prevent all this from being destroyed by God, Weaver Girl decided to return to her parents' home. She hugged the child with tears in her eyes and said: Forgive me, my sweetheart, mother is going back to grandma's house. You must listen to father, practice martial arts well, and learn to work. God is a hot-tempered person, and he opposes my coming to the world. , if you and your son can subdue him, we can be reunited. The child seemed to understand her mother's mood very well. She didn't cry or fuss, and looked at her mother obediently with her eyes wide open. The Weaver Girl hugged the baby, kissed it again and again, and talked again and again. Finally, she put the baby in the cradle, shook her feather fan, and flew to the place where the Cowherd was farming to say goodbye to her dear husband: Thank you, dear brother. , thank you for all the love you gave me; our love is like the flowing clear water river, pure, lingering and eternal. Now I have to leave - to go back to my parents' home. My lonely sisters want me to comfort them. Only when God sees me will he avoid disasters. Farewell, dear brother, how could I have the heart to live up to your love? How could I ever cruelly abandon that beloved one? Even though it lasts for an hour in heaven and on earth for several years, God will be angry when he hears the sound of the shuttle! May you create miracles in the world, may you conquer the Tianshan Mountains and the Tianhe River. The day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, when the irritable God surrenders. The Weaver Girl flew and sang above the Cowherd's head. After singing, she flew higher and higher, and finally disappeared in the blue sky. The Cowherd put up an awning with his hands and raised his eyes to look at his wife ascending away. He was so sad that he remembered that he still had children at home, so he hurried home. As the saying goes: "A man without a wife is like a house without beams." Without the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, everything in the family was turned upside down. If a husband without a wife is boring, then a baby without a mother is miserable. The Cowherd wanted to take the Weaver Girl back, but how could he reach the blue sky? He wandered around all day long, looking up to the sky and sighing. All this was seen by the buffalo. One day, the buffalo said to the Cowherd: "What's the matter? As the saying goes, there are high cliffs on the road of love. If you have a strong will, you can cross the mountains. Are you frightened by difficulties again?" said the Cowherd. : "My friend, you can see that the fire of love is about to burn me, but I can't fly without wings!" "It's not difficult," the buffalo told the cowherd, "I can take you to the sky. Go. The question is how do you get into the Guanghan Palace to see the Weaver Girl, and how do you defeat the God who tolerates no mortals? The children quickly sent the buffalo up and let the Cowherd and his son ride on his back. He told them: "Don't be afraid no matter what risks you encounter. Come down when you reach your destination." Then he jumped into the rushing Qingshui River and headed towards Swim eastward until the sun rises in the East China Sea, relying on the strong wind and swirling mist on the waves to fly to the palace of heaven. "We're here," said the buffalo, "you work hard, I'm going back to the human world now to wait for the good news." The buffalo left, and the Cowherd carried his child around the palace. There was no door and he couldn't enter the palace. , and couldn’t find anyone to ask. what to do? He thought of the Lusheng that he always carried with him, and started to play "Li Le Li Le"? The sweet Lusheng music reached the palace, and the fairies who were alarmed rushed to the windows to watch. The Weaver Girl, who was embroidering a belt, also looked out the window with her sisters, looking curious. "Ah, it's the Cowherd and the child!" The Weaver Girl was so excited that she ran out and welcomed them into the palace. When all the fairies heard about the visitors from the human world, they rushed to see the fun. The Heavenly Mother was happy from the bottom of her heart when she saw her son-in-law and grandson, and the more she looked at them, the more she wanted to see them. Only the Heavenly Father had a cold attitude. He felt that it was very embarrassing for a fairy to marry a mortal farmer. Brilliant, now this mortal has come to heaven and started living as a couple with the Weaver Girl. Wouldn’t it be a disgrace to the Heavenly Palace! God's heart was churning with all kinds of tricks to harm the Cowherd. Soon, the God of Heaven said to the Heavenly Mother: "Old fool, our Weaver Girl has gone crazy. What kind of husband is she looking for? She knows how to work all day long and smells of earth. Try to drive him away!" The Heavenly Mother said: "You are just now. What's wrong with Cowherd? He's handsome and hard-working. How can he not be worthy of our Weaver Girl? Don't you see how loving they are? If you want to send them away, send them and their whole family away.

The Cowherd is here to pick up the Weaver Girl, and the Weaver Girl is also nostalgic for human life..." God thought: What a wise woman! "The more the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more interesting she becomes." That's true. There is no need to discuss it with her, just figure it out yourself. ! Anyway, you can't marry mortals, you must break them up. This God racked his brains and came up with many strategies to persecute the Cowherd. Once, he said to the Cowherd: "You have been here for a long time, you should go out and see the place tomorrow." I'll take you to the venue. It's very lively! "In the evening, the Cowherd told the Weaver Girl about this. The Weaver Girl knew that this was a trick that would make the Cowherd get lost and never come back, so she told the Cowherd how to deal with it. As soon as day broke, the Cowherd followed the God. After setting off, he dropped a chicken feather wherever there were forks in the road. No one could count how many forks there were. When he arrived at the bustling market, there was a sea of ??people. God crowded in the crowded place, leaving the Cowherd alone. He sneaked home first and asked his servants to hold a feast to celebrate his return from the market. The Cowherd saw that the God of Heaven had gone home first, so he wandered around the market and came back from the same road. Every time he came to a fork in the road, there was a big rooster. After reporting to him, he returned to the Weaver Girl smoothly. When the God of Heaven saw that the Cowherd had come back, he felt very unhappy, but on the surface he said hypocritically: "There were many people on the field and I couldn't find you, so I came back: Just come back. This is a banquet for you. Please...please. "The Cowherd was not polite and had a delicious meal. Although the Cowherd was not thrown away by the rush, God had another bad idea. Spring and summer are evenly divided, which is the logging season for peeling bark. God wanted the Cowherd to do it. They went to chop fir trees together. The Cowherd asked the Weaver Girl what he should do. The Weaver Girl gave him a piece of cloth and asked him to wrap it around his head, saying, "It will be useful when the time comes." "The next day, Cowherd and Tiangong came to the mountain and found a tall and big cedar tree. Tiangong said to Cowherd: "When we cut down the cedar tree, we need to peel it first. This way it is easy to peel without damaging the bark. You can Being young and strong, I climbed up the tree and peeled it. I used a ladder to peel off the lower part, and then chopped it after peeling it off. "The Cowherd did as he was told, climbed up to a high tree and peeled off the bark. When it got dark, he peeled off the section where God used the ladder to peel off the bark. After God peeled off the next section of bark, he took off the ladder and slipped back home first. The Cowherd couldn't get down from the tree because the newly peeled fir tree was slippery and difficult to hold on to, and the tree was too big to hold. Then the Cowherd realized that God wanted him to fall to death or starve to death. The Cowherd thought of the Weaver Girl. The piece of cloth given to him was tied to a branch and brought down to the ground, and then returned to the Weaver Girl's house. When the God saw it, he was so angry that he could do nothing about it. , and kept it wrapped on the head. It is said that the current Miao men's turbans were passed down from that time. When peeling off the bark failed to cure the Cowherd, God came up with a more vicious method. The Cowherd went to burn the mountain fence with him, hoping to use the fire to burn the Cowherd to death. The Cowherd asked the Weaver Girl what to do, and the Weaver Girl asked the Cowherd to catch a big crab and put it in a water hyacinth. When the God of Heaven arrived at the place where he was cutting the fence, he asked the Cowherd to go to the hillside and burn it from top to bottom. When the Cowherd reached the halfway point, the ferocious God set fire from the bottom of the mountain, hoping to use the raging fire to burn the Cowherd. The Cowherd calmly lit a fire in front of him, then put the crab in the gourd and ordered it to dig a pool quickly. The Cowherd jumped into the pool and watched the fire go out before going back. When the God of Heaven saw that the Cowherd returned home safely, he was very angry, but he knew the abilities of mortals on earth and could not bully him, so he had to show courtesy to the Cowherd on the surface. The weasel pays New Year greetings to the rooster - "uneasy and kind". Whenever the Cowherd proposed to take the Weaver Girl back to the human world, the God would always prevaricate and spread rumors to drive a wedge between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but he never succeeded. As time went by, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Their love for the Weaver Girl became deeper. Soon their beautiful daughter was born in heaven. God held a banquet to celebrate the birth of his granddaughter and to bid farewell to them - God allowed the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to return to the earth. They were eating and drinking, singing and laughing, and the atmosphere was lively. When the wine was half drunk, the God of Heaven took a wine pot and drank a large bowl of rice wine. He held it in front of the Cowherd and asked him to drink the wine in one gulp. He was dizzy, swaying, and finally collapsed at the table: The Cowherd is dead! It's hard to guard against the unintentional person. Who would have expected the poison on the festive day! It turned out that the god had put poison in the wine and the whole party was shocked. The guest was overjoyed to lose her husband, but the Heavenly God pretended to be kind and wanted to cremate the Cowherd according to human customs. The Heavenly God had no choice but to put the Cowherd in a fir coffin. , put a big rooster in front of the coffin without a lid, and then put the coffin in the river and let it float freely. The rooster followed the instructions of the Weaver Girl, "Oh! oh! oh! "The ground sang: "Brothers, come and get the medicine! Brothers, come and get the medicine! "The flower snake heard it and flew to absorb the poison from the Cowherd; the fish heard it and jumped into the coffin to absorb the poison from the Cowherd. After absorbing all the poison, the Cowherd woke up and the Cowherd came to life. But the snake's teeth were poisoned and the fish's courage became bitter. The Cowherd returned to the house of the Weaver Girl. He said to God: "Your plan has failed. You should let me take the Weaver Girl away." ? "This time, the ferocious God revealed his true colors. With a ferocious face, teeth and claws, he pounced on the Cowherd.

It was too late, but soon, the Cowherd's son raised his slingshot and hit Tiangong's left eye with one bullet, and then his right eye with another bullet. The old stubborn Tiangong's eyeballs were cracked and he screamed. Legend has it that God’s broken eye turned into a sky full of stars. The humming cry turned into rumbling thunder. God gave in. He had no choice but to shoot himself in the foot. He intended to harm others but ended up harming himself! Now, everything is arranged by the Heavenly Mother, who promised the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's family to return to the human world. But, how to go back? Only the Weaver Girl can fly, and the buffalo has long since returned to the ground. If you jump from the sky to the ground, you will be shattered to pieces! The Weaver Girl's sisters came up with a way: twist money and silver thread into a rope and tie the two ears of the big bronze drum. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's family sat inside the drum. When they got to the ground, they used the sound of the drum to notify the Weaver Girl in the sky, and they lowered the rope. In this way, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's family returned to the world and lived a happy life. The buffalo learned that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were returning to the world, and rushed to greet them. It looked up into the sky with its head held high, and stood happily until now. Legend has it that the "Niutou Mountain" on the banks of the Qingshui River was transformed from the Cowherd's sacred cow. When the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl returned to the earth, it was the sunny season after the autumn harvest. They beat the bronze drums and played the reed pipes, telling everyone in the upper and lower directions: Huh... uh... Huh, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have returned home; eh... ah... eh, the world is here. The beauty is better than heaven. The sound of bronze drums that shook the earth and the music of Lusheng that echoed in space attracted villagers from all directions. They danced to the drums and bamboo music. Later, people would celebrate the New Year every time during this season and enjoy themselves as much as possible to commend man for his victory over nature and to celebrate the agricultural harvest. Bronze drums and reeds have become the main musical instruments during the New Year festival. Nowadays, during the Chinese New Year in the Miao family by the Qingshui River, the girls all wear their own embroidered flower ribbons to step on the bronze drum, and the young men play the Lusheng and borrow the dazzling flower ribbons from the girls. It is said that the embroidery skills of Miao girls are handed down from the Weaver Girl, so they are particularly exquisite and beautiful. People also say that the daughters of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are born in the Heavenly Palace, so the Miao girls in the Qingshui River Basin are as beautiful as flowers.

[Edit this paragraph] Song "Cowherd and Weaver Girl"

"Song of Weaver Girl Begging Skills"

Begging for skill, begging for appearance; begging for mind, begging for appearance ; I beg my parents for thousands of years, beg my sisters for thousands of years.

Part 1 of "Song of Begging for Skills"

Emperor of Heaven and Emperor of Earth, I invite my Seventh Sister to go to heaven. I don’t care about your needle, I don’t care about your thread, I just use your seventy-two good methods.

"Song of Qiao Qiao" Part 2

Qiao Yaya is a strange thing. It grows in pots and covers in your hands; pluck it on July 7th, and sisters will take pictures; it looks like a flower and a vegetable, let’s see who has the quickest mind and hands

[Edit this paragraph] "The Cowherd and the Cowherd" "Weaver Girl" Group Sculptures

On the bank of the clear Vanilla River at the south gate of Danyang City, there is a quite eye-catching square. On the square is a group of light ocher granite sculptures, which is the "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" group sculptures. . Any couple who travels to Danyang together will stay here for a long time and almost forget to return.

The group of sculptures is very tall. The Weaver Girl at the top is about 20 meters above the ground. She is floating down from the sky, with her hands facing the child in the Cowherd's arms. The Cowherd seems to be full of tears, lovingly looking towards the love he misses day and night. The wife walked away... The cows beside her couldn't bear to disturb the couple who had been separated for another year, and happily chatted with the magpies that formed the magpie bridge... Seeing the magpies flying around the Milky Way (Galaxy) with their wings, they were dancing together. They gathered around the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, enjoying the happiness of the group members, but also revealing their eagerness and nervousness - hating the long separation, but regretting the short one night!

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