In which dynasty does the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl take place?

Southern dynasties. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the most famous folk legends in our country, and it is the earliest story about the stars of our people. There is such a paragraph in Ren Fang's "Narrative of Differences" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties:

In the east of the river, there are beautiful beauties, who are the sons of the Emperor of Heaven, female workers of the machine, working hard every year, weaving into the clothes of clouds and mist silk, hard work is not happy, the appearance is not flawless to tidy up, the Emperor of Heaven pities his solitude, marries the morning glory in the west of the river as his wife, and since then he has abolished the work of weaving, and the greed and joy do not return. The emperor is angry, blames Hedong, and meets once a year. ”

There are many versions of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the most well-known is that according to legend, the Cowherd's parents died early, and he was often abused by his brother and sister-in-law, and was only accompanied by an old cow. One day, Lao Niu gave him a plan to marry the Weaver Girl as his wife.

On that day, the beautiful fairies did bathe in the Milky Way and frolic in the water. At this time, the Cowherd, who was hiding in the reeds, suddenly ran out and took the Weaver Girl's clothes. The panicked fairies hurriedly went ashore, dressed and flew away, leaving only the Weaver Girl.

At the begging of the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl agreed to be his wife. After marriage, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the Farmer and the Weaver Weaver, loved each other, and lived a very happy life. The Weaver Girl also gave birth to a son and a daughter to the Cowherd, and later, when the old cow was about to die, she told the Cowherd to keep its skin and put it on for help when it was in trouble.

After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the cow and buried it on the hillside.

When the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd got married, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the Heavenly Court knew about it, and they were furious and ordered the Heavenly God to capture the Weaver Girl back in the lower realm. The gods took advantage of the Cowherd's absence and captured the Weaver Girl. The Cowherd went home and didn't see the Weaver Girl, so he hurriedly put on a cowhide and chased after the two children.

Seeing that she was about to catch up, the Queen Mother was in a hurry, pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and swiped towards the Milky Way, and the shallow Milky Way became turbid in an instant, and the Cowherd could no longer pass. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only be full of tears, looking at each other across the river, for a long time, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother can not resist the sincere feelings between them, and they are allowed to meet once a year on July 7, according to legend, every July 7th, the world's happy sparrow will fly to the sky, in the Milky Way for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to build a bridge to meet. In addition, in the dead of night, people can also hear the love words of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the sky under the grape trellis or other melon and fruit trellises.

Of course, this is just a legend. The ritual of begging originated from the primitive belief of the ancient Weaver Girl Mulberry God, which combined with the saying that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the seventh day of July every year, and has become our Qixi Qiqiao folk belief today.

The story of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is one of the best legends in the folk history of our country, and the simple love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is people's longing and yearning for life; The loyal and diligent cow represents people's love for labor and expectation of a peaceful life......; The life and death of heaven and earth, the happy members of the Queqiao meeting, deducing the ancient love, Danyang is rumored to be the origin of the legend of "the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", therefore, Danyang built a group of sculptures on the bank of the Vanilla River in the early years, for people to recall the traditional culture, and weave a modern moving comedy - it is said that every year, there are countless boys and girls in love, come to the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" to meet and tie the knot.

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are the famous Han folk love stories in ancient China, and they are also one of the four major folk legends in China (the other three are "Liangshan Bo Di Na Bang and Zhu Yingtai", "Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall" and "The Legend of the White Snake"), derived from the star names of the Niu Xing and the Vega Star. Legend has it that the ancient Emperor of Heaven's granddaughter, Weaver Girl, was good at weaving cloth and weaving colorful glow to the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to the mortal world, married the cowherd of Hexi privately, and lived a life of male farmers and female weavers.

This angered the Emperor of Heaven, who took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, ordered them to separate, and allowed them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Queqiao Bridge. Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew over and used their bodies to build a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe.

Looking up at the starry sky, compassion for the world, farewell to sorrow and hatred, this is the tenth song of "Nineteen Ancient Poems" "Morning Glory":

Morning Glory, the Han Girl of the Bright River.

Slender hands, zaza lanes.

All day long, sobbing like rain.

The river is clear and shallow, how much is it different?

Yingying is in the water, and the pulse is silent.

The poem adopts the third-person shape, looking up at Altair and Vega on both sides of the Milky Way, and then concentrating on describing the Weaver Nu Bu Sansui Star, shaping her into a beautiful and mournful woman, clearly writing the stars and stars in the sky, and alluding to the parting feelings in the world.

The evolution of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can be roughly divided into four periods. The Shang and Zhou dynasties were in the embryonic period, and the ancients saw that the Tianhe (Hehan, i.e., the Milky Way) each had two bright stars, one was named "Morning Glory" like a cow's horn, and the other was named "Weaver Girl" because of a shuttle like a weaving cloth; Three thousand years ago, there was a clear record in the "Book of Poems, Xiaoya, Dadong" that the names of "Weaver Girl" and "Morning Glory" appeared, but this was only written as two stars, and there was no special relationship between them. The Han Dynasty was a turning period, and began to pull them from the sky to the earth, materialized, anthropomorphized, and warmed up into lovesick lovers, "Morning Glory" is an example, and Bangu's "Western Capital Fu" also said:

Facing the pool of Kunming, the left morning glory and the right weaver girl, like the endless cloud and Han. "The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were stereotyped periods, they were officially stereotyped as husband and wife, and the Qixi Festival appeared. After the Tang and Song dynasties, it was a legendary period, adding oil and vinegar to render the vines.

In these four periods, the Han Dynasty was the most critical, and "Morning Glory" is undoubtedly an important cultural witness to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

It first appeared in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, among the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" created by Anonymous, there is a poem "Morning Glory", from which it can be seen that Morning Glory and Weaver Girl are already a pair of lovers who admire each other, but they have not yet been identified as husband and wife in the poem. In the written records, the earliest person to call the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl husband and wife should be the "Anthology" compiled by Xiao Tong of the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

But in the imagination of the ancients, the heavenly couple and the earthly couple are basically the same, so there is no tragedy in the story. As for why the morning glory and the weaver girl had to "have a meeting on the seventh day of the seventh month". The original text is not explained.

According to later generations, it may be that on the one hand, the stars are the brightest in the sky at night in July every year, and the two stars of morning glory and weaver girl are closer to each other.

On the other hand, the seventh day of July was the day of the folk custom of "begging" at that time, and the working people regarded the Weaver Girl as a labor expert, so they could weave hundreds of horses within ten days, and begged for her.

As a result, people blended the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with folk customs. The story continues to enrich and evolve over time.

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was formed in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It first appeared in "The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, Dadong" and replied Liangqing: "There is a Han in the sky, and there is light in the prison."

The weaver girl, seven Xiang all day long, although the seven clear Lu Xiang, do not become a newspaper key date. He is a cow, not a box". In the poem, the Cowherd is called Morning Glory, but at that time, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl only referred to the stars in the sky and had no description of love.