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The legend of Tanabata.
The sky is full of stars, and the family laughs and sets up a red feast. You should thank the female pearl and write the splendid chapter of Tanlang.
The incense tents are clustered in rows, and the gold needles are worn to worship Chanjuan. The copper kettle missed the news that the day will dawn, and the melancholy period is another year.
The Milky Way, composed of countless stars, stretches across the night sky like a celestial river, and it is said that it separates the amorous Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and only on the seventh day of the seventh month of July every year, the magpies of the world build a magpie bridge, and they can meet. This beautiful legend began in the Han Dynasty and has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 1,000 years.
Legend has it that 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 frightened 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. Later, when the old cow was about to die, he 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 stroked towards the Milky Way, and the former shallow Milky Way became turbid in an instant, and the Cowherd could no longer pass. Since then, Cowherd.
The Weaver Girl can only be full of tears, looking at each other across the river, the world is long, 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 seventh day of the seventh month, the magpie in the world will fly to the sky, and meet in the Milky Way for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to build a magpie bridge. 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 July 7 every year, and has become our Qixi Qiqiao folk belief today.
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A long time ago, there was an orphan who lived with his brother and sister-in-law, who was both smart and diligent, but his sister-in-law still disliked him, and drove him up the mountain to herd cattle before dawn, everyone called him the cowherd. From then on, the cowherd herded cattle and chopped wood during the day, and slept with the old cow in that broken house at night.
One day, the cowherd drove the cow into a strange forest, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. The Cowherd saw seven fairies riding auspicious clouds and falling on the grass of the river, and then took off their colorful clothes and jumped into the crystal clear water, and the Cowherd stared at a fairy who was the youngest and most beautiful. Ke looked into his mind, and then the old cow suddenly spoke:
She is the weaver of heaven, as long as you take away the colorful clothes, she will be your wife. The Cowherd quietly followed the tree and quietly took away the Weaver Girl's colorful clothes. It was nearly noon, and the other fairies wore colorful neon clothes and rode away on auspicious clouds.
Only the Weaver Girl who couldn't find the colorful neon dress left. At this time, the Cowherd walked out from behind the tree and asked the Weaver Girl to be his wife, and the Weaver Girl saw that the Cowherd was loyal and honest, hardworking and strong, and nodded shyly.
After the Cowherd and Weaver Girl tied the knot, the male farmer and the female weaver, respecting and loving each other. Two years later, the weaver girl gave birth to a boy and a boy. However, when the Emperor heard that the Weaver Girl was married, he was furious.
On the seventh day of the seventh month, the Queen Mother was ordered to take the heavenly soldiers and generals to catch the Weaver Girl, and the grief-stricken Cowherd chased her children to the sky with the help of the old cow. Seeing that she had caught up, the queen mother took down the golden hairpin and stroked, and a turbulent heavenly river immediately appeared at the feet of the cowherd.
The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd who picked up the children, one in the east of the river and one in the west of the river, looked at the crying cry from afar and moved the magpie, and suddenly countless magpies flew to the Tianhe River and set up a magpie bridge, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could finally meet on the Magpie Bridge, and the Queen Mother had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet on the bridge once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of July.
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the "Qixi Festival". This is the festival that young women care about the most. On this day, unmarried women have to perform competitions such as needlework, embroidery, silk weaving, etc., and also make "Qiaoguo" to sacrifice to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and everyone will share the food after the sacrifice.
The Qixi Festival originated from a touching folk love legend: the Weaver Girl is a beautiful and intelligent fairy, who fell in love with an honest and hardworking cowherd in the world, became a husband and wife, and was later broken up by the gods, and can only meet once a year on the night of July 7.
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Chinese Valentine's Day, which is the most important day for daughters' families. Countless sentient men and women in the world will pray for a happy marriage in front of the stars at this night, when the night is quiet and deep. It is said that sitting quietly under the vines, you can also hear the voice of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
The Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the sky came to meet, and the lovers on the ground prayed for eternal love.
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The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl crossing the Magpie Bridge once a year.
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Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China. Because the main participants of this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging, so people call this day "Qiqiao Festival" or "Girl's Day" and "Daughter's Day". The Qixi Festival is one of the most romantic festivals in China's traditional festivals, and it is also the day that girls attach the most importance to in the past.
On this night, the women thread needles and beggars, pray for Fu Lu Shou activities, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, lovely. On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. It is now also considered "Chinese Valentine's Day".
On a clear summer and autumn night, the stars are shining in the sky, a white Milky Way like a bridge across the north and south, on the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star, across the river, far away, that is Altair and Vega. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the morning glory and Vega on Tanabata. According to legend, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year, it is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge.
The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent, and ingenious fairy, and the women of the mortal world beg her for wisdom and ingenuity on this night, and also inevitably ask her for a happy marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging Festival. Legend has it that on the night of Qixi Festival, you can see the Milky Way meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl when you look up, or you can overhear the pulse and love words of the two when they meet in the sky under the melon and fruit stand. In this romantic evening, the girls put on seasonal melons and fruits in front of the bright moon in the sky, worshipping the sky, begging the fairies in the sky to give them smart hearts and dexterous hands, so that their knitting women are skilled, and they are begging for love and marriage.
In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women that determined the happiness of their lives, so countless sentient men and women in the world would pray for a happy marriage in front of the stars at this night, when the night was quiet and deep. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the four major folk legends in China, and it is also the earliest and most widely circulated legend in China's folk literature, and has a very important position in the history of China's folk literature.
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