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To the east of Tianhe, there is a weaver girl, the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, who works hard on the loom every year to weave a brocade skirt with a messy appearance. God pitied him for being alone and promised to marry a cowherd in Hexi. After marriage, he gave up knitting. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and ordered him to return to Hedong for an annual meeting.
On the seventh day of autumn, magpies are embarrassed for no reason (kūn). According to legend, the Japanese drum and the Weaver Girl will meet in Hedong, and the service of the black magpie is to let the beam pass, so they all take off their hair.
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To the east of Tianhe, there lives the daughter of Tiandi, Zhinv (note: Tiandi is not a jade emperor, but the jade emperor is the highest god worshipped by Taoism, and Tiandi is one of the emperors or five emperors in ancient legends). She worked on the loom year after year, weaving gorgeous clothes, and she didn't even have time to dress up. God pitied her for living alone and allowed her to marry the cowherd on the west side of Tianhe. After marriage, Weaver Girl neglected the textile work. The emperor was furious and ordered her to return to the east of Tianhe, allowing them to meet only once a year.
On the seventh day of autumn every year, we always see the magpie's head suddenly bald. According to legend, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the east bank of the Milky Way on this day, and magpies were used as a bridge to walk over their heads, so the hair on their heads was trampled bald.
Myth origin
According to the poem "Xiaoya Dadong" and "Tianguan Book", Huaxuan Jushi does have cowherd and weaver girl in history. According to the geographical analysis of Niulang's real name Gong Mingji (about 900 BC), Zhang, the weaver girl of Jinkun Shuangfeng people (Shuangfeng Village, Simianshan Town, Jiangjin, Chongqing), has a good family. In the Book of Songs, it was recorded that "serving" was effective and later became a fairy tale. According to local county records, Shuangfeng Town was originally named Longfeng Town, which means a pair of twins and children of Gong Ji and Zhinv. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Shuangfeng to avoid Song Shenzong's taboo. According to research, there is a twin village and a golden pole village in the local area, where Gong Ji once picked a pair of children. Today's newly married men and women are praying for this golden pole boulder in an endless stream, meaning love and loyalty; Make up my mind, I also hope to get twins.
Sprinkle fruit to save the world
According to an old legend, when the weaver girl and the cowherd separated, it coincided with the famine year that never happened in a hundred years. In order to punish the local villagers, the Emperor of Heaven threatened the Weaver Maid to return to heaven by refusing to rain for a year. The locals would rather starve to death than leave the weaver girl. The kind weaver girl couldn't bear the sufferings of the villagers and was forced to leave the cowherd and a pair of children reluctantly. After crying with her family on the bank of the Milky Way, the soldiers who escorted her were moved. When passing by Yaochi Orchard, Weaver Girl suddenly remembered the villagers implicated by him. She raised her hand, picked 77 plums and sprinkled them on the ground. These 77 plums fell into Shuangfeng Village and immediately became thousands of fruitful plum trees. The fruit is delicious and juicy, crisp and delicious, and she is not hungry. The villagers gave Plum a nice name, "Emerald Hill Pearl", also called Jasper Pearl. These 77 plums also suggested that Cowherd and his children meet on the Magpie Bridge on the seventh day of July every year.