What is the difference between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the Seven Fairies of Dong Yong?

First of all, the cowherd fell in love with the fairy who weaved cloth in the sky

And what is in love with Dong Yong is the daughter of the queen mother, the Seven Fairies.

Secondly, the origin and provenance of these two stories are also different, and it is said that the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is related to the Vega and Altair in the sky.

And the story of Dong Yong's seven fairies can be traced back to the Han Dynasty at the earliest.

Later, the finale of these two stories, one he, one be.

Although the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were eventually forced to separate, they could still meet at Queqiao every year at Qixi, while Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies were not treated so well.

So these two are not the same story, and many people always misunderstand that Xi is to commemorate Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies, which is actually very wrong.

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl fell in love, and the Weaver Girl was pregnant with the Cowherd's child, but their love was known by the Queen Mother of Heaven, and the Queen Mother ordered the Weaver Girl to be captured back to Heaven and broke them up.

The differences between Dong Yong's Seven Fairies and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl are: the origin of the fairy is different, the origin of the story is different, and the ending of the story is different.

Different origins: Cowherd fell in love with the fairy weaving cloth in the sky, and Dong Yong fell in love with the Queen Mother's daughter Seven Fairies.

The origin of the story is different: it is said that the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is related to the stars Vega and Altair in the sky. The story of Dong Yong's Seven Fairies can be traced back to the Han Dynasty at the earliest, and the origin time of the two stories is too far apart.

The ending of the story is different: although the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were finally forced to separate, they can still meet at Queqiao on the seventh day of the seventh month of July every year, while Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies are not treated so well.

The reason why the mythical story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl circulated:

The myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl began to evolve in the Han Dynasty, so that this myth and legend began to evolve from the myth to the folk secular of the Han Dynasty from the character image to the storyline to the emotional connotation, and the secular life is the evolution of the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so that the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is closer to the life reality of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty.

The image of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl also became the object of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty to express their emotions and dispel pain, so that this legend and story belonged to the people in a real sense. It is not difficult to see that this is the fundamental reason why the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was widely circulated and attracted much attention in the Han Dynasty.

Of course not, this is a love story of two people.

Horses are not surprising (horseback riding)!

For people who like folk tales, the stories of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies must be no stranger, of course, some people confuse these two stories, and some people are curious about whether the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies? Judging from the name, they are not the same person, but some people can't understand the two stories, so let's distinguish the two stories for everyone.

The stories of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies were all produced during the Han Dynasty, and both of these stories belong to one of the five great Chinese folk legends, the other three being "The Legend of the White Snake", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall".

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is a folk love story of the Han Dynasty in China, and the love between the two of them is also very touching, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl also have representative stars, that is, Altair and Vega. In this legend, the Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven, she is good at weaving, and the Caixia in the sky is woven by the Weaver Girl. However, such a day-to-day work is really a bit boring, so the Weaver Girl went down to earth.

After descending to earth, the weaver girl fell in love with the cowherd, the two got married, and lived the life of a male farmer and a female weaver. Later, the Weaver Girl was known to the Emperor of Heaven about her marriage, and the Emperor of Heaven was very angry, so he brought the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, let the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd separate, and only allowed them to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Magpie Bridge, and their love touched the Magpie, and the Magpie would build a Magpie Bridge for them with their bodies on this day.

Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies are the heroes and heroines in the folk tale "Heavenly Immortals", this story is actually based on history, derived from the story Dong Yongxing's filial piety; , Dong Yong is a real figure in history, and Dong Yong is a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the beginning, Dong Yong and his father depended on each other, but his father fell ill and died, but he had no money to bury his father, so he chose to sell himself as a slave, which is also one of the twenty-four filial piety stories. The story of "Tianxian Pei" is that the seven fairies were moved by Dong Yong's filial piety, and went down to marry Dong Yong, but were finally beaten by the Jade Emperor.

It's not the same. Dong Yong is Dong Yong, and the Cowherd is the Cowherd. Two different people.

The story of the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong: According to legend, Dong Yong sold himself to bury his father, filial piety touched the sky, and the Seven Fairies went down to earth to marry him; The seven fairies weaved ten brocades in one night, changing Dong Yong's three-year construction period to 100 days; The Jade Emperor of Heaven found out that the Seven Fairies had privately descended to the earth, and decreed that the Seven Fairies would return to Heaven at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the husband and wife would say goodbye, and the Seven Fairies would send their sons down a year later?

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven and weaves cloud brocade in the sky every day. The Cowherd is a young man who is herding cattle, and he has no parents very early, and his brother and sister-in-law treat him very badly, and after the family is separated, he only gives him an old cow.

The cowherd and the old cow depend on each other, and their lives are very hard. One day, the old cow suddenly spoke to him in a human voice. The old cow told him that tomorrow the Weaver Girl and the sisters in the sky would go to the lake behind the mountain to bathe.

If the Cowherd takes away the Weaver Girl's pink dress, the Weaver Girl will become his wife.

The Cowherd did what Lao Niu said, and sure enough, he saw the Weaver Girl. After they got married, the cowherd ploughed the fields, the weaver girl weaved cloth, and the days became happier and happier. Soon they had a son and a daughter, and the couple was happy.

However, the matter of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was known to the Queen Mother. She was so angry that she personally took the gods to the Cowherd's house to arrest the Weaver Girl and take her to the sky. The children cried for their mothers.

The old cow said to the cowherd again: "Cowherd, I am dying, you put my skin on your body, and you can go to heaven to chase the Weaver Girl." The old cow died after speaking.

The cowherd put on a cowhide, put the child in two baskets and carried it on his shoulders, and sure enough, it flew into the sky. The Cowherd travels through the stars like the wind, and it looks like he is about to catch up with the Weaver Girl. Suddenly, a big hand stretched out in the air, and the ruthless Queen Mother swiped behind her with a hosta, drawing a big river, blocking the Cowherd's pursuit, and the Cowherd couldn't fly over.

This river is the Heavenly River, also called the Milky Way.

The Cowherd looked at the surging river and vowed to see his wife no matter what. The Queen Mother had no choice but to allow them to meet every year on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Every day, the magpies will fly to the Tianhe River to build a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and let them meet on the bridge.

Not a story. "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is a mythical story, while "Tianxian Pei" is a myth**.

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is a very ancient mythological story, and its circulation predates the formation of the Qixi Festival.

As early as ancient times, the ancients had an understanding of the celestial phenomenon of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There are extant written records of the corresponding geographical division of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl astronomical star area was first seen in the Han Dynasty historical books, "Hanshu Geographical Chronicles": "Guangdong (Yue) land, morning glory (Cowherd) and Wu Nu (Weaver Girl) are also divided into fields, and now Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Nanhai, and Rinan are all divided into Guangdong.

The long myth ** "Heavenly Immortals" mainly tells the story of the beautiful and kind Seven Fairies who fell in love with the simple and honest young Dong Yong, who went down to the mortal world from Heaven privately, broke through many obstacles and married Dong Yong, the Jade Emperor learned that he was furious and ordered the Seven Fairies to return to Heaven immediately, and the Seven Fairies had to endure their grief in order not to hurt Dong Yong and weep goodbye to Dong Yong under the Huaiyin tree.