What is the origin of Tanabata? Is it the earliest legend about Cowherd and Weaver Girl or something else?

Pinyin Q, X and ㄑㄧ

Explain the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. According to myths and legends, the cowherd and the weaver girl in the sky meet on this night every year.

[Edit this paragraph] Festival "Qixi"

In China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as China Valentine's Day, and some people call it Qiaoqi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Daughter's Day or Qixi Valentine's Day. This is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past.

On a clear summer and autumn night, the sky is full of stars, and a white galaxy spans the north and south like a bridge. On the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star across the river, that is Altair and Vega. It is a folk custom to sit and watch morning glory and weaver girl on Tanabata. According to legend, this night every year is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, clever and clever fairy. On this night, ordinary women prayed to her for wisdom and skillful skills, and they also prayed to her for a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of July is also called Begging Festival.

See the entry "Qixi" for details.

[Edit this paragraph] Legend "Qixi"

This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four folk love legends in China. Legend has it that there is a Vega and an Altair in the sky. Weaver Girl and Penny are soul mates. But it is forbidden for men and women to fall in love and fall in love privately. The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother demoted Penny to the world and made the Weaver Girl Brocade as a punishment.

Weaver's job is to weave layers of beautiful clouds on the loom with a magical silk, and change their colors with time and season. This is the "heavenly clothes". Ever since Penny was demoted, Weaver Girl has been in Lacrimosa, thinking about Penny with a frown. She sat by the loom and kept knitting beautiful brocade, in order to win the favor of the queen mother and let Penny return to heaven as soon as possible.

One day, several fairies begged the Queen Mother to see the Lian Bi Pool on earth. The queen mother was in a good mood today and promised them. Seeing that the Weaver Girl was unhappy all day, they begged the Queen Mother to let the Weaver Girl go with them. After the punishment, the heavenly queen felt sorry for her granddaughter and told them to go and come back quickly.

After being demoted, Penny was born in a farmer's home and named Cowherd. Later, when his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. My brother and sister-in-law are mean to Cowherd and want to separate from him. They only gave him an old cow and a broken car, and the rest were monopolized by his brother and sister-in-law, and then they separated from the cowherd.

Since then, the cowherd and the old cow have lived together. They cut thorns, cultivated land and built houses in the wasteland. A year or two later, they built a small home and barely made ends meet. However, except for the old cow who can't talk, Cowherd is the only one in the deserted home, and life is quite lonely. The cowherd doesn't know that the old cow is the Taurus in the sky.

On this day, the old cow suddenly spoke and said to the cowherd, "Cowherd, today you go to Bilianchi, where some fairies are taking a bath." You hide that red fairy costume, and the fairy in the red fairy costume will become your wife. " Cowherd was surprised and happy when he saw the old cow talking, so he asked, "Niu Ge, can you really talk?" Is it true what you said? "The old cow nodded, and the cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside Bilianchi, waiting for the arrival of the fairies.

After a while, the fairies really floated in, took off their light clothes and jumped into the clear stream. The cowherd ran out of the reeds and took the red fairy's clothes. When fairies saw someone coming, they quickly put on their clothes and flew away like birds, leaving only fairies who could not escape without clothes. She is a weaver girl. Seeing that her fairy clothes were taken away by a young man, the Weaver Girl was ashamed and anxious, but she was helpless. At this moment, Cowherd came over and told her that he could not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. The weaver girl looked intently and realized that the cowherd was the cow she missed day and night, so she shyly agreed to him. In this way, the Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd.

After they got married, they worked hard, loved each other and lived a very happy life. Soon, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, very cute. Cowherd and Weaver Girl thought they could be together for life and grow old together.

However, when the Queen Mother learned of this incident, she flew into a rage and immediately sent a fairy to catch the Weaver Girl and make amends.

On this day, the weaver girl was cooking, and the cowherd hurried back from the fields. His eyes were red and swollen, and he told Weaver, "Niu Ge is dead. Before he died, he asked me to peel off his cowhide and put it away. One day, I can wear it and fly to the sky. " Hearing this, the Weaver Girl wondered. She knew that the old cow was the golden bull in the sky, and she was demoted to heaven just because she said a few good words for the demoted morning cow. How can you suddenly die? The weaver girl asked the cowherd to peel off the cowhide and bury the old cow.

At this time, the sky is stormy, and the heavenly soldiers will fall from the sky. It is hard to say that it is escorting the Weaver Girl to the sky.

Flying, flying, Weaver Girl heard the voice of Cowherd: "Weaver Girl, wait for me!" " "Looking back, the Weaver Girl saw the Cowherd coming with a pair of baskets and two cowhide children. Slowly, the distance between them is getting closer and closer, and the weaver girl can also see the lovely faces of her children. The children opened their arms and shouted "Mom". Seeing, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are about to meet. But at this moment, the queen mother came in with Xiangyun. She took off the golden hairpin on her head and rowed it among them. At the moment, a Tianhe wave is caught between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd and cannot be crossed.

The Weaver Girl looked at the Cowherd and his children across the Tianhe River and cried herself hoarse. Cowherd and children also cried their eyes out. Their cries and the children's cries for "mom" are so heart-wrenching and tearful that even the fairies and immortals watching the battle feel sad and unbearable. Seeing this situation, the Queen Mother was slightly moved by the loyal love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so she agreed to let the Cowherd and the children stay in the sky and let them meet once a year on July 7.

From then on, the Cowherd and his children lived in the sky, separated from the Weaver Girl by a Tianhe River. Among the stars in the autumn night sky, we can still see two big stars on both sides of the Milky Way. They are Vega and Altair. The Altair has two little stars, namely a son and a daughter of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

On July 7, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, and countless groups of magpies flew to bridge the gap for them. On the Magpie Bridge, Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet again! The Weaver Cowherd is affectionate, hugging the children, and there are endless words and feelings!

Legend has it that on July 7th every year, if people listen quietly in the vines under the grape trellis, they can vaguely hear Yue Xian's performance, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd are talking affectionately. To put it bluntly, it's been a long time before I met her, but it's been longer since we broke up. They look forward to meeting again on July 7 of the next year every day.

Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars and look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray to God that they will be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl and that they will have a happy marriage, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.

[Edit this paragraph] The Tang poem Tanabata

Work information

Named "Valentine's Day in China"

late tang dynasty

Author Luo Yin

Genre seven-character verse

original work

Qixi Festival；Chinese Valentine's Day

In the winding corner of the Milky Way, it is a beautiful day, and the family is laughing and eating a red feast.

We should thank Nvzhu for writing Tan Lang's wonderful article.

Fragrant curtains are clustered in rows, and gold needles are put on to worship Chanjuan.

If you don't report the copper pot, you will know, and you will be sad for another year.

works appreciation

Tanabata, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is said to be the annual meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. On this night, the people showed melons and fruits. This poem is about Qixi. The first couplet: "There is a starry sky in the corner, and a family laughs at the red banquet." The horn is the horn in the twenty-eight lodges, and the net is the network, which means that the fog net is on the horn. The milky way, the milky way in the sky, separates the cowherd from the weaver girl. Rainy days are also days when lotus flowers are in full bloom. Imagine Cowherd and Weaver Girl seeing rhinoceros horns and lotus flowers on the edge of the Milky Way. This refers to what the sky says. The next sentence refers to the world. The family happily spread a red cloth banquet in the yard and put melons and fruits on it to thread the needle.

The second couplet: "I should thank Nvzhu and write a splendid article by Tan Lang." Thanks to Tan Lang, generally referring to women and men. The woman in this family emptied the beads in the basket and asked the man in this family to write a splendid poem praising Qixi and put it in that basket. In writing tanabata poems here. Ji: Zhu Xiao. Sanlian: "Fragrant curtains are arranged in rows, wearing gold needles to worship Chanjuan." The last sentence refers to the sky. The incense account was made successfully and beautifully arranged. Li Shangyin's Untitled: "Light phoenix tail yarn, double fragrance, lining your green canopy, closing your eyes at night." This is a round account for making a wedding. When the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, they should also settle their accounts. Cluster refers to cluster, so it is called cluster because it is a cluster that folds incense candles and sews dome curtains. Gentle and graceful, beautiful "Gentle and graceful" refers not only to a well-arranged weaver girl, but also to the beauty of women. The following sentence refers to the world, and all the women in that family are trying to be smart. Worship the beautiful Vega with needles. Chanjuan, beauty, refers to Vega. Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet on Tanabata, and the ancient timing copper pot leaks that it will be dawn, and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl will be separated again, and they are at a loss, so the good opportunity to meet will have to wait another year.

The characteristic of this poem is that it is written by contrast. The first sentence is about the scenery in the sky, and the second sentence is about the situation on earth. There are scenery and laughter, which constitute the contrast between heaven and earth. The couplets are dedicated to the world, and there is no mention of Tanabata, which alludes to Chanting Tanabata in Splendid Articles. Sanlian is also written in contrast. "Fragrant curtains" refers to the sky, and "golden needle wearing" refers to the world. The phrase "the copper pot has not been reported" refers to the sky. In addition, the first couplet is about "human laughter", as opposed to the fourth couplet about "melancholy in the sky". A joy and a sadness constitute a foil. For another example, write a splendid article about Tan Lang in an empty basket, and write the joy of men and women on Tanabata, which sets off the sadness of the departure of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. In this context, it is not as good as the world. As far as words written in the sky or on the ground are concerned, the first sentence, five sentences, seven sentences and eight sentences are written in the sky, and two sentences, three sentences, four sentences and six sentences are written on earth, that is, four sentences are written in the sky and four sentences are written on earth. But this poem, titled Tanabata, should be mainly about the meeting of cowherd and weaver girl, which makes people feel that the author still values the world, so this arrangement is made. The author wrote that happiness on earth is better than heaven, and it was very rare to have such an idea at that time.

Brief introduction of the author

Luoyin is like Luoyin.

(833-909) was a writer in the late Tang Dynasty. The real name is Heng, and the name is Jiang Dongsheng. He is from Xincheng (now Fuyang, Zhejiang) and Yuhang (now Zhejiang). I became famous when I was young. However, because his poems are good at attacking current politics and mocking officials, the ten scholars are not the first, but changed their names to Cain. After the peasant uprising broke out in Huang Chao, he avoided chaos and lived in seclusion in Jiuhua Mountain. Later, he returned to his hometown to serve Qian Liu in Zhenhai, which won Qian Liu's appreciation. In 887 (the third year of Tang Guangqi), it was played as Qiantang Order and moved to A Lang. In 906 (three years of Tang Tianyou), he served as a judge. In 908 AD (the second year of Kaiping, Hou Liang), he was awarded the project and moved to a salt-iron ship the following year, and died soon. Luo Yin lived in turbulent times and was oppressed for a long time. He is a poet with seven unique skills, satirizing reality and using spoken language, so a few works can be circulated among the people. There are ten volumes of poems A and B handed down from generation to generation.

[Edit this paragraph] Tanabata nickname

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is double seven: this month and day are all seven, so it is called seven, also called seven. Xiangri: According to legend, the cowherd and the weaver girl meet on Tanabata, and the weaver girl should dress up, paint and even smell the fragrance all over the sky, hence the name.

Week: Cowherd and Weaver Girl have special status, and they can only meet once a year, so this day is called week. Wang Bo's Tanabata Fu "Stay in the Week, Full Moon and Evening" compares the week with the moon and evening, and points out the two most beautiful and touching nights related to family and love in a year. Because of this, later generations call the auspicious day for men and women to get married "Zhou".

Qiaoxi: It is called Qiaoxi because there is a custom of pleasing on Qixi.

Women's Day: Valentine's Day in China is called Women's Day, also called Girls' Day and Girls' Day, because girls worship immortals and strive for cleverness.

Blue Night: The seventh month of the lunar calendar was called "blue moon" in ancient times, so Tanabata is also called "blue night".

Children's Day: It's called because the customs such as being clever and begging for books are mostly done by girls and boys.

Needle-piercing Festival: It is named after the custom of needle-piercing on this day.

Purple Valentine's Day: According to the blooming time of Ajisai, Ajisai, also known as hydrangea, it blooms in rainy season (open in summer), because flowers will change many colors from blooming to withering: red, blue, green, blue and other colors represent a colorful and happy life, while purple is a purple from thick to light, which also symbolizes diversity. Therefore, purple is used to symbolize Ajisai, not because it is fickle, but because it can make us happy in the rainy season, so it changes colors so diligently. If Tanabata is before the heat, it will be Purple Valentine's Day.

[Edit this paragraph] Tanabata Valentine's Day SMS

Kiss you and me, keep the castle privately, and the night of the magpie bridge will last forever!

The moon shadow is as bright as day, and the silver frost is boundless; Qixi Festival is a bridge full of affection. Fairy flowers and beautiful scenery blend together; Fairy magpies gather on the overpass to make you happy! On Tanabata, Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet on the bridge, and a group of fools on the ground meet to break the bridge. May I ask: What is tonight? Answer: Valentine's Day in China!

The weaver girl doesn't have to fold the moth eyebrow, and the cowherd is back now. The magpie bridge holds hands to watch tears, and the beautiful scenery in the bright morning does not want to return.

I am waiting for our Tanabata night. Will you come? I'm waiting! ! !

We don't do cowherd and weaver girl, because we are too far apart and meet each other too short; We should be ourselves, because you are by my side, and hold my heart firmly!

The night is still, we don't want to disturb the two stars in the horizon, but my blessing will penetrate this night, because I hope the wind can bring my blessing to you, and I only wish you a smooth and happy Valentine's Day. Although my blessing is not unique, I hope it is the first one today.

There is a cowherd and a weaver girl in the sky, and there is golden couple on the ground, just you and me.

Tanabata is willing to look forward to the present, and the red leaves are fragrant and resentful. Every morning and evening, the picture is permanent and lingering, which is worrying.

God gave me another excuse to ask you out. Lovers spend time with you. Every day is Valentine's Day.

On Qixi night, the stars are numb and look at the fish in the water. Think of your heart is sour, only think of your original feelings?

Thank you very much for giving me the happiest time of my life. Today is Valentine's Day in China. May we love each other forever and grow old together! Kiss you deeply! !

Foreign countries send roses on Valentine's Day, and China sends moon cakes on Tanabata.

Dear, today is Valentine's Day in China. Far away, send you a Valentine's Day kiss! Chinese style.

Love lasts forever, accompanied by Tanabata, which is the proof of our love!

Gentleness is like water, courtesy is like a dream. On July 7th, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met at the Magpie Bridge. China's lover called it a festival, which will last forever.

Missing is a kind of sweet melancholy, which can rub a woman's natural jealousy into sadness and dissolve it into a kind of deep feeling like bright moonlight.

Above the Milky Way, the waiting for a lifetime, and the fate of generations have all turned into drops of crystal tears, which fell on the earth and left infinite blessings to the world!

The milky way is falling, and love is boiling, which is better than begging for love, lying in the plum garden on Tanabata, looking up at the sky at midnight with Viagra, wishing from afar with the cowherd and the weaver girl, and being infatuated with fish and water forever.

Weaver embroidered brocade, cowherd hopes. Queqiao River frame, short Tanabata. May love last forever, and the moon will last forever. I want the Milky Way to die, so that the two stars will be clean forever!

Ruthless time and space separate you from me, but I still miss your heart. See you on July 7th!

The vast galaxy, I can't find your trace; Can you feel my missing in the long night?

The west always celebrates Valentine's Day. Why not celebrate our own Valentine's Day? Can we spend this wonderful day together? I will wait for you!

My lover is a world hero. I know that one day he will wear colorful battle clothes and step on the magpie bridge to pick me up. Can you come today? Your weaver girl! A hundred birds build a bridge, a star dreams a book, a star wish, and a companion on Tanabata! ! !

You can't say this is a holiday for foreigners. Today is the Valentine's Day in China on Tanabata. Haha, you can't hide it!

How many spoony storms, how many tears shine in the night sky. Infatuation was originally affectionate, and when you meet, you smile and forget the enmity.

Magpie bridge flies north and south, you and I have a good time, my baby, I miss you! !

On July 7 th, the fairy of the magpie bridge, the golden wind and jade dew hate bitterness, often accompanied by day and night, not envious of cowherd and Yuanyang! [ 1][2][3][4][5][6]

Cowherd and Weaver Girl became an eternal story, and you and I built a love nest at the same time and space. May all lovers in the world get married and build a rainbow with our love! Heaven and earth, year after year, tonight's reunion, only willing to last forever. I just want to tell you that my special feelings for you will never change in my life!

Tanabata, Tanabata, my moment; Weaver girl, Weaver girl, my beloved wife; Heaven and earth, gathering for thousands of years; Alas, I love my wife.

If the stars can read the heart of this moment, the moon can understand the feeling of this moment ... May all lovers get married!

Our online love begins today! Really sweet! I hope you will be by my side every Tanabata.

I am the beautiful meteor beside the magpie bridge, just to respond to your true love. I've been waiting for you for a long time. ...

Today is July 7th. Did anyone send you flowers? Give you one first!

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction to Tanabata

In China, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the weather is warm and the plants are fragrant. This is commonly known as China Valentine's Day, and some people call it "Begging for Clevership Festival" or "Daughter's Day". It is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China and the most important day for girls in the past.

On a clear summer and autumn night, the sky is full of stars, and a huge white galaxy runs across the north and south. On the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star across the river, that is, Altair and Vega.

It is a folk custom to sit and watch morning glory and weaver girl on Tanabata. According to legend, this night every year is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, clever and clever fairy. On this night, ordinary women prayed to her for wisdom and skillful skills, and they also prayed to her for a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of July is also called Begging Festival.

It is said that on Tanabata night, you can look up and see the Milky Way where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, and you can also eavesdrop on the love story when they meet in the sky under the melon and fruit shelf. On this romantic night, facing the bright moon in the sky, the girls put the fruits and vegetables of the season in the sky, begging the goddess in the sky to give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands, so that they can master their needlework skills, and even beg for the combination of love and marriage. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women to decide whether they were happy or not. Therefore, on this quiet night, countless sentient men and women in the world will pray for a happy marriage under the stars.

[Edit this paragraph] Tanabata cuisine

Proper fruit is the most famous holiday food in Chinese Valentine's Day. Proper fruit, also called "Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing boy" and "eating fruit patterns", and the patterns include holding incense and winning prizes. In the Song Dynasty, appropriate fruits were sold in the market. The method of proper fruit is: first, put sugar into a pot and melt it into syrup, then mix it with flour and sesame seeds, spread it on the table, let it cool, cut it into cubes with a knife, and finally fold it into spindle-shaped proper fruit embryo and fry it until golden. Handy women will also create various patterns related to the legend of Qixi.

In addition, there are many changes in the melons and fruits used in Qiqiao: either the melons and fruits are carved into exotic flowers and birds, or the surface of the melon skin is embossed; This kind of melon is called "flower melon".

[Edit this paragraph] Tanabata recipes

Healthy recipes are popular now, and we should also pay attention to diet on Tanabata. Tanabata recipes recommended by Lady Pavilion:

The Quaker's name for Sunday

Breakfast: an egg+a slice of toast+half a banana.

Lunch: four ounces of cheese+five biscuits.

Dinner: two chicken sausages+four ounces of broccoli+two ounces of carrots+half a banana.

the next day

Breakfast: a slice of peanut butter toast+half a grapefruit.

Lunch: Canned tuna soaked in salt water with four ounces and a slice of toast.

Dinner: 400g lean meat (chicken, pig, beef)+a cup of peas+half an apple.

the third day

Breakfast: a slice of cheese+five biscuits+half an apple.

Lunch: an egg+a slice of toast.

Dinner: four ounces of tuna soaked in canned salt water+four ounces of red cabbage head and cauliflower+a piece of melon.

The fourth day

Breakfast: 1 tomato+100g boiled lettuce+cereal 1 bowl+sugar-free drinks.

Lunch: 1 tomato+1 boiled protein or 80g boiled fish/chicken+water or sugar-free drinks.

Dinner: 1 tomato+100g boiled cucumber+water.

Fifth day

Breakfast: 4 noodles, 250 ml milk, 1 boiled eggs.

Lunch: rice, tomatoes, cucumbers and ears.

Dinner: vegetarian noodles

sixth day

Breakfast: mung bean porridge, coriander mixed with shredded beans, vegetarian fried zucchini.

Lunch: rice 1 two, half-baked hairtail, vegetarian fried with three shreds.

Dinner: 15 vegetarian dumplings, cold cucumber, garlic and fungus dishes.

Seventh day

Breakfast: 4 pieces of noodles, 1 piece of sauce beef/kloc-0, and 250 ml of milk.

Lunch: Assorted fried rice, tomato and egg soup

Dinner: 1 roll chopped green onion, 50g dried celery, shredded potatoes with pepper.