There are many vivid contents of the follow-up life of Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the stories circulated in Lushan Mountain. The weaver girl was taken back to the heavenly palace, weaving colorful clouds and brocade, moping all day, thinking about the cowherd and the children. Cowherd and his children live on the earth. It is hard to say how sad they are. Their residence is only 5 Li away from the Nantianmen at the top of Lushan Mountain. A pair of children miss their mother at home and go down the hill to the worse gate from time to time to ask for "mother". General worse sympathized with their plight and had to facilitate their access. The jade emperor likes his grandchildren very much and lets them come and go. The queen mother also relaxed the supervision of the Weaver Girl, and the relationship between the two families gradually became harmonious. After his death, the cowherd was buried in the cowherd grave at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain. The descendants of Cowherd in Sunyi Village call themselves "Cowherd and Sun". Later, the descendants of Cowherd inherited the property along the slope of Lushan Mountain and adhered to filial piety. Every year, they arrange more than ten festivals, such as Laba, Spring Festival, February 8th, Cauliflower Festival, March 3rd and Tanabata, and invite Cowherd and Weaver Girl back to the village for the holidays. Lufeng Mountain next to Sunyi Village, Niulang Cave on Lufeng Mountain, Jiunvtan in the west and Ruiyun Temple on the top of the mountain all seem to tell the moving story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The natural environment around Lufeng Mountain is superior, and local people have been raising yellow cattle since ancient times. However, unlike cattle raising in other places, Sunyi Village in Xinji Township not only raises cattle in every household, but also raises cattle without killing them, and the custom of burial after death has a long history. In addition, Lushan Mountain has been rich in silk since ancient times, and Lushan Silk (Lushan Silk) is also called "Weaver Girl" and "Weaver Girl". Xinji Township is a well-known grape planting base. This is also related to the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Legend has it that every year when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on Tanabata, women on earth can hear them whispering under the grape trellis. Lushan folk custom, Tanabata seeks ingenuity, that is, it is on this day to seek ingenuity from the Weaver Girl and get the right husband. In Xinji Township, a large-scale temple fair is held on the seventh day of July every year. According to textual research, the Qixi Temple Fair in Xinji Township has a history of at least several hundred years. Folks call it "welcoming the immortals" or "taking the cowherd and the weaver girl home". In Sunyi Village, Xinji Township, there is also a very interesting custom, that is, starting to sing big dramas at temple fairs and never watching Tianhe Collection. Because some descriptions of their ancestors in Tianhe Ji are disrespectful. In order to show respect for ancestors, the custom of not reading Tianhe Ji has been maintained for generations. [3-4] "The Milky Way in the sky and the Yi River in the underground." This is a folk saying circulating in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province. The "Galaxy" mentioned here is the Milky Way in the sky, and the "yi river" is a river with a total length of 574 kilometers originating from Yiyuan County, Shandong Province. This statement originated from a sad love story in China: the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There is a rare landscape and ancient building site in Yanya Township, Yiyuan County, Shandong Province-Zhinv Cave and Niulang Temple built in Tang Dynasty. The two are far away from each other across the Yi River, and the landscape pattern on both sides of the river echoes the "Altair-Galaxy-Vega" in the sky from a distance, with striking similarities, forming a unique landscape of harmony between heaven and earth and magic of heaven and earth. Niulang Temple was originally a two-story attic building. After many renovations, it has begun to take shape, with three halls, blue bricks and green tiles, painted arches and magnificent buildings. There are statues of cowherd and their children in the main hall of the temple, and there is a statue of Taurus next to it. In the courtyard, the cypresses are towering, quiet and chic. The village next to Niulang Temple is called Niulang Guanzhuang. Most people in the village are surnamed Sun, just like Cowherd (Sun Shouyi). This village existed in the Ming Dynasty. There are also natural and geological wonders in the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Scenic Area, such as the Weaver Girl Spring and the Weaver Girl Terrace (Tiansuntai), which are all related to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and have strong cultural colors.
In 2008, the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in Yiyuan County was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council, numbered I-36. Nanyang has a long history and profound cultural heritage, with a history of more than 2,800 years. It is also one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China. Baihe, the largest tributary of Hanshui River, surrounds Nanyang and is known as the "White Water in Hanzhong", which resembles Hehan, Tianhan and Yinhe in the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. According to the famous historian Qian Mu's Textual Research on the Place Names of Chuci, Cha Xiao's Ode to Time says: "The old country of Penan is a treasure of heaven and man." Niujiazhuang (also known as Sanglin), twenty miles west of Nanyang in the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, is located on the west bank of Baihe River. As Liang Yinyun said in the novel of the Southern Dynasties, "There is a Weaver Girl in the East of Tianhe, the son of the Emperor, ... who promised to marry the Cowherd in Hexi, abandoned weaving after marriage and was ordered to return to Hedong.
According to the story spread from ancient times to modern places, ancient mulberry trees and related relics, customs and legends can still be found 20 miles west of Nanyang. 198 1 year, according to Wu Deming, a learned old man, there was a site of Han tomb, commonly known as "mulberry tomb" by villagers, and there were a lot of Han bricks and mulberry hairs left in the grass and on the edge of the ridge.
In the versions of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl circulated in Sanglin and Sangzhuang all over the country, either the location of the story is not stated, and almost all of them point to "there is a Niujiazhuang twenty miles west of Nanyang City" or "Cowherd is from Sanglin County ...".
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Folklore expert Zhang also said in "A Study on the Evolution of Classical Myths in the Central Plains": "Cowherd has a good name, and he is from Sanglin Village in the west of Nanyang City ...".
Sangzhuang (Sanglin) is located in today's "Twenty Li Gang", close to the official road "Xialu" from ancient times to the present. In the spring of 839 AD, Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, entered Beijing from Xuanzhou as an official. On the way, he passed the hometown of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. In "A Journey to the Country", it is written with great emotion, "In spring, halfway south and halfway west, Rousang crosses the village dock ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The poet painted a beautiful panoramic view of the "mulberry forest" in the west of Nanyang by line drawing, in which "soft mulberry crossing the village dock" described the vast mulberry forest and covered the village.
Cowherd Village and Weaver Village In the widely circulated legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the Cowherd in Hexi was driven out of the house by his sister-in-law, left the mulberry forest (also known as Niujiazhuang) with an old cow and a broken car, and lived on the east bank of the river. This is very consistent with the legend of "Niulangzhuang" on the east bank of Baihe River.
Located on the east bank of Baihe River, "Niulangzhuang" has the name of this village since ancient times, and still retains Niulang's homestead, drinking cow pit, Niujiazhong and Queqiao. Shi Wa Village, more than a mile away, is commonly known as the "Weaver Girl Village". Since ancient times, girls in Shi Wa have never married "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which is a marriage custom influenced by the love tragedy of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". The local people believe that although the cowherd and the weaver girl love each other, they can't live forever, which has become a lingering shadow in the local area. There is also a saying that Niulangzhuang is too poor. For thousands of years, no girl in Shi Wa village has married Niulangzhuang.
There is a legend in Niulangzhuang: The Weaver Girl who picks mulberry meets the Cowherd in Hexi on the bank of Baihe River and falls in love. Weaver girl secretly married Cowherd despite her parents' opposition. Over time, Weaver Girl's parents discovered and separated them. Cowherd, who is eager for his wife, is rushing to find scalpers here. Because Weaver's parents think Cowherd is too pitiful and don't allow them to meet. In desperation, the cowherd built a hut nearby and settled down. Over time, today's "Cowherd Village" was formed. However, the unchanging affection made them meet quietly on the magpie bridge near the village and talk about their feelings of parting.
Cowherd and Weaver Girl were born in Chu State.
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. There is a poem in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong, "Toe is a weaver girl, who has seven bags all day ... After finishing his eyes, he leads the cow instead of the box". 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" related to the Weaver Girl, which says that "Han has a wandering girl and can't think about it". According to historical records, the word "Han" in the poem refers to Hanshui and Tianhan (Galaxy), and the word "wandering girl" refers to the goddess of Hanshui or Vega. There is also "the song of Gao Han prodigal girl picking pearls" in Dunan Fu by Zhang Heng, a Nanyang native.
Chu people live in Jianghan area, and they attach great importance to the "prodigal girl of Han Dynasty". In addition, among Chu people, Altair is often confused with Hegu Samsung. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the annotation in the book Chronicle of Jingchu written by Nanyang Zonggu said: "Cowherd star, Jingzhou is called' Hegu'". In Nanyang Han Dynasty stone relief "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Constellation", the river drum is the cow.
The hometown of silk originated from the "emperor's daughter mulberry"
Nanyang is the hometown of silk with a long history. According to historical records, sericulture and silk industry existed in the Zhou Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was one of the eight silk producing areas in China. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng recorded the words of "the mulberry of the imperial daughter" praising his hometown in Nan Fu. The "Huangnvsang" recorded in Shan Hai Jing and Zhongshan Jing is a silkworm god who knelt down by a tree and lived in Nanshan (also known as Xuanshan).
Nanyang nanzhao county is known as "the hometown of tussah". Artificial stocking of tussah began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Silkworm Slope Charter Monument erected in Nanzhao in the 10th year of Guangxu's reign reads, "Yesterday, Mrs. Huangdi taught the people to silkworm ... After the Han Dynasty, the silkworm in Guangwu Jiang Ye became a cocoon and was buried in the mountains".
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.
Nanyang cattle have a long history.
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 obvious characteristics of agricultural areas. Cattle raising is an indispensable labor force in agricultural areas and the main "productivity" of farming. At the same time, the cow is also the main role in the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Cattle play an important role in local agricultural life.
Nanyang Yellow Cattle is one of the top five thoroughbred cattle in China, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad. Nanyang cattle has a long history, which naturally produces many stories of "cattle": "Funiu Mountain", "Chang 'e Black Cattle" and "Priscilla Cattle Raising" ... Cowherd and Weaver Girl are one of the most wonderful stories.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Nanyang yellow cattle had already entered the stage of house feeding and captivity. A native of Qin Xiang Bai Li Xi, he is good at raising cattle. In his down-and-out life, he lived by herding cattle in Qilingang, west of Nanyang. He once heard that Zhou Tianzi liked cattle, that is, raising cattle as a ladder to meet him, which was a much-told story. In the Han Dynasty, bullfighting became a popular activity in Nanyang at that time, and a large number of cattle images appeared in the world-famous Han Dynasty stone relief in Nanyang. Nowadays, the annual Yellow Cattle Festival enables Nanyang yellow cattle culture to be passed down.
The legend of Nanyang Cowherd and Weaver Girl is listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage by the Henan provincial government. 1. Fight for the birthplace of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Netease.2010-08-17 [reference date 20 13-09- 17]. 2. The second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list was published. Sina.com. Lushan Mountain: the center of the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Henan Cultural Industry Network.2010-09-19 [reference date 20 14-08-2 1]. 4. Lushan Mountain: the center of the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Pingdingshan news network. 2000。 5. The love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is now in the new website 20 12-08-23 [reference date: 20 13-09- 18]. 6. Comics: The love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is in the south of the "Six Kingdoms Wharf" in the southern suburbs of Taicang, and there is a yellow bar next to Liujiagang. According to ancient legends, this is the birthplace of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an Huanggu Temple in the village, which was dedicated to the God of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. There is a beautiful and touching myth and legend here.
Cowherd and Weaver Girl are all immortals in the sky. Cowherd is called Hegu Star, and later generations mistakenly call it Huanggu Star. The weaver girl is called the weaver girl, and she is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother. Cowherd and Weaver Girl love each other freely in the sky. The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother thought that they were "not in the right place", and in the name of "making love, affecting work", they kept the weaver girl under strict supervision and demoted the cowherd to the world. Before Cowherd came down to earth, Weaver Girl whispered to Cowherd that if you miss her on earth, you can fill the lotus jar with clear water, look at the water in the jar and see the beautiful image of Weaver Girl. With this in mind, Niulang was born in a farmer's home in Huanggu Village next to Huanggutang in the southern suburb of Taicang.
Cowherd in Huanggu Village, whose parents died when he was a child, lived in his brother's sister-in-law's house. There is a cow, a Taurus star in the sky, flying to the cowherd. Cowherd keeps cattle well and often goes to the fields to herd cattle, so he is very close. Sister-in-law always bullies him, mistreats him, cooks things and eats them secretly without telling Cowherd. The old cow has spirituality. Knowing that Sister-in-law was stealing good food from home, she told Cowherd to hurry home for dinner. Sister-in-law hated it so much that she forced Cowherd to split up. Cowherd said, I want nothing but this cow, plant a piece of land and live in a thatched cottage.
After the separation, the cowherd and the cow worked hard, leading the cow to farm in the field and living together with the cow. Cowherd is smart and capable, and gradually grows into a strong and sensible young man. After doing farm work in the field, he often rides on the back of cattle and plays the flute to relieve boredom. When I miss the weaver girl, I look at the weaver girl in the lotus jar in a daze. He played a beautiful flute, and the weaver girl in the sky was fascinated by it. She has been eavesdropping on the Cowherd playing the flute in the colorful clouds for 7749 days, which aroused her love for him. The old cow said, "Cowherd, Cowherd, you wave to her. If she is interesting, she will meet you. " The cowherd looked up at the colorful clouds. Sure enough, he saw a beautiful fairy, like a weaver girl in a lotus jar, waving to her. When Weaver saw Cowherd waving to her, she pulled out a silver hairpin from her head and threw it down. With a brush, the silver hairpin became a thoroughfare. The cowherd rode on the back of the cow and met the weaver girl in the sky. Cowherd and Weaver Girl love me and I love you, so the old cow acts as a matchmaker, and Weaver Girl goes down to Huanggu Village and marries Cowherd.
They farmed men and weavers, gave birth to twins, a man and a woman, and lived happily. The cloth woven by the weaver girl is very good and the business is good. She is also willing to teach women in Huanggu village to learn weaving, and the neighborhood relationship is very close. Before he died, the old cow put its head on the river bank and said to the cowherd, "After I die, you can peel off my skin and put it away. You can use it when you are in danger and you can wear it on your body! " The river where the old cow died is still called "Niutoujing".
The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor found that the Weaver Girl was not weaving in the computer room, and sent a god to inquire, knowing that the Weaver Girl was born in Huanggu Village, married the Cowherd and raised twins. The Jade Emperor was furious and sent an angel to escort the Weaver Girl away. Cowherd was farming in the field when suddenly he saw that the weather was bad. He hurried home and found that the Weaver Girl had disappeared. He looked up at the sky and found that the Weaver Girl was escorted to the sky by the gods. He quickly put on cowhide and picked a load to fly to the sky. While chasing, he shouted, "Heaven will be rude, give it back to my wife!" When the Weaver Girl saw the Cowherd chasing after me, she thought that I was the granddaughter of the Jade Emperor and would definitely not do anything to me. Cowherd is bound to be severely punished when he goes to heaven. He waved them not to come. The cowherd didn't listen, and the weaver girl was anxious. She tore off a golden hairpin from her head, drew a line behind her and drew a galaxy. The river rolled and the waves rolled, stopping the cowherd and them in Hedong, but not across the river.
After the Jade Emperor arrested the Weaver Girl, he severely reprimanded her and imprisoned her in the computer room to weave. Cowherd can't meet Weaver Girl, and the child cries for his mother. Mother Earth (the wife of the Jade Emperor who is in charge of everything on earth) saw the poor Weaver Girl and begged the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor agreed to meet Weaver Girl and Cowherd once a year on the seventh day of July. On this day, there were birds and magpies on the bridge, so the cowherd and the weaver girl took their children to heaven and met the weaver girl on the magpie bridge.