Is the Cowherd s really his name?

Sun Shouyi. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, this is the most romantic "Qixi Festival" in traditional Chinese festivals. In Lushan County, Henan Province, the "hometown of Chinese Cowherd and Weaver Girl culture", the local people expressed their longing and expectation for a happy life and praised the great love of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl through offerings to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Music, offering grains and holy water, and toasting ......Early in the morning of the 26th, the people of Sunyi Village, Xinji Township, Lushan County, spontaneously gathered at the Sun ancestral hall at the head of the village to worship their ancestors, "Cowherd" Sun Shouyi, and pray for the prosperity and wealth of the Sun family.

According to local legends, Sun Shouyi's parents died when he was a child, and he lived with his brother, he herded cattle during the day and stayed at Lufeng Mountain at night, known as "Cowherd". Later, under the guidance of the old cow, the cowherd skillfully married the fairy red clothes who went down to the lotus pond to bathe, and since then, there has been the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl. Later, people called the village where Sun Shouyi lived Sun Yi Village.

Sun Guowei, the chief master of ceremonies and a descendant of the "Cowherd", said that at present, there are more than 1,100 people in their village, and nearly 1,000 people are surnamed Sun, all of whom are descendants of the Cowherd. "We have to sacrifice the Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the seventh day of July every year, and many people in the village can sing songs about the Cowherd and Weaver Girl. ”

The reporter saw that the incense was full of incense in the small Sun ancestral hall, and the Sun villagers, who claimed to be the descendants of the Cowherd, were arranged according to their generations, and bowed three times to the statue of Sun Shouyi, the "Cowherd". On the incense table in the ancestral hall, there are freshly picked peanuts, grapes and corn.

In addition to Sun's ancestral hall, a larger-scale worship and blessing activity was also held on Lufeng Mountain in the east of Sunyi Village. Tens of thousands of people, as well as young men and women who participated in the "10,000-person blind date meeting", climbed to the Cowherd Cave and the Cowherd Temple at an altitude of more than 300 meters, and offered incense to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, praying for a happy marriage and prosperity.

Ming Jiajing's "Lushan County Chronicles" recorded: "There are Cowherd Caves and Cowherd Temples on Lufeng Mountain. When the reporter went to the entrance of the Cowherd Cave, he saw more than 100 people offering incense and worshipping in front of the cave.

Looking down, the hillside is crowded with villagers, tourists and folk artists.

Halfway up Lufeng Mountain, hundreds of rap artists are singing and dancing, performing folk programs such as "Cowherd Whip" and "Tanabata Love", with solo singing, duet singing, and more love song performances, but most of them are mountain songs that praise the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Miss Yan, a "post-80s" tourist from Zhengzhou, said after offering incense to the Cowherd that it was the first time that so many people worshiped the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl had heard of and seen it, and the simple villagers still retained such a tradition, and the Chinese Valentine's Day was really special.

Seventy-five-year-old Hu Gen said that it was not only Qixi Festival, but also the beginning of March.

In August and September, there are people who come to worship, and many of them come to make wishes for the marriage of their children, "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are the ancestors, and they must be worshiped from generation to generation." ”

However, Sun Yicun also has its own taboos. The old man Hu Gen said that since he can remember, the local opera "Tianhe Ji" has been banned, "That is disrespectful to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl!" (ENDS).

It's just a legend.

The Cowherd steals the Weaver Girl's clothes, this kind of person is a good person. What does the Weaver Girl like about him, is he too handsome? Under feudal rule, the three subordinates and four virtues oppressed the Weaver Girl, and the story is very fake.

Because he doesn't have a name, he just keeps raising cows, so he is called the Cowherd.