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Anonymous users2024-02-13Legend. Emperor Yan had a daughter named Nuwa. The girl is very well-behaved, and when the Yellow Emperor saw her, he couldn't help but praise her, and Emperor Yan regarded the girl as a famous pearl in his palm.
When Emperor Yan was not at home, the girl played alone, and she very much wanted her father to take her out to the East China Sea, where the sun rose. But because my father was busy with his business: when the sun rose, he came to the East China Sea and did not set the sun; Every day, I can't take her there.
On this day, the girl didn't tell her father, so she rowed alone in a small boat to the place where the sun rose in the East China Sea. Unfortunately, there was a sudden storm and waves on the sea, and the waves like mountains overturned the girl's boat, and the girl unfortunately fell into the sea, and was finally swallowed by the merciless sea, never to come back. Although Emperor Yan missed his little daughter, he couldn't use the sun's rays to illuminate her and bring her back from the dead, so he could only sigh alone.
The girl died, and her spirit turned into a small bird, with a flower head, a white beak, and red claws, making a sad cry of "Jingwei, Jingwei", so people called this bird "Jingwei".
Jingwei hates the merciless sea for taking her young life, and she wants revenge. Therefore, she kept taking a pebble from the Fat Dove Mountain, where she lived, and spread her wings and flew high until she reached the East China Sea. She roared back and forth on the rough sea, throwing down the pebbles and branches, trying to fill the sea.
The sea rushed, roaring, and laughed at her: "Little bird, forget it, you will do this work for a million years, and you will not want to fill me up!" ”
Why do you hate me so much? ”
Because you have taken my young life, and you will take many young and innocent lives in the future. I'm going to do it endlessly, and one day I'll fill you to the ground. ”
Jingwei flew and chirped, left the sea, and flew back to the mountain to fetch stones and branches. She held, throws, grown, flies back and forth, never stops. Later, when a petrel flew over the East China Sea, he accidentally saw Jingwei, and he was puzzled by her behavior, but after understanding the cause of the incident, Haiyan was moved by Jingwei's fearless spirit, and married him, and gave birth to many small birds, the female like Jingwei and the male like Haiyan.
Xiao Jingwei, like their mother, also went to the stone to reclaim the sea. To this day, they are still doing this work.
Jingwei's perseverance, good intentions, and grand ambitions are respected by the people. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, wrote in the poem: "Jingwei is a micro-wood, and the sea will be filled with it", warmly praising the tragic fighting spirit of Jingwei birds who dare to fight against the sea.
Later generations often used "Jingwei reclamation" as a metaphor for the arduous and outstanding undertakings engaged in by people with lofty ideals.
People sympathize with Jingwei, admire Jingwei, call it "Wronged Bird", "Oath Bird", "Zhi Bird", "Emperor Bird", and set up a monument on the East China Sea, called "Jingwei Oath Water Place".
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Anonymous users2024-02-12The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Tanabata is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the bridge.
It is said that the Cowherd is an orphan in Niujiazhuang, Nanyang City, and lives by his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law, Ma, was mean and often abused him, and he was forced to split up and rely on an old cow to feed himself. This old cow is very psychic, one day, the Weaver Girl and the fairies went down to play, bathed in the river, the old cow persuaded the Cowherd to get the Weaver Girl's clothes, and the Weaver Girl became the Cowherd's wife.
After getting married, they farmed and weaved, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and lived a very happy life.
Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Heaven found out about this and sent the Queen Mother to escort the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Court for trial. The old cow couldn't bear to let their wives separate, so he cut off the horns on his head and turned it into a small boat, and let the cowherd carry his children to chase after him in a boat. Seeing that she was about to catch up with the Weaver Girl, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rolling Milky Way in the sky.
The Cowherd couldn't cross the river, so he could only look at the Weaver Girl by the river and weep from afar. Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew over and used their bodies to build a colorful bridge across the Tianhe, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe.
The Queen Mother had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to meet once a year on July 7 on the Magpie Bridge.
Because the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is beautiful and moving, to this day, people often use "the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" to describe the love of husband and wife.
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