Fairy Tales of Cowherd and Weaver Girl

According to legend, Weaver Girl is the daughter of Jade Emperor and Yao Ji. After she met Penny, they fell in love at first sight and hit it off, so they had a private life. But men and women are forbidden to fall in love, and it is forbidden to fall in love in private. As a result, the Queen Mother demoted Penny to the world and punished the Weaver Maid for constantly weaving brocade.

The weaver girl often burst into tears when she sat by the loom, but she would still weave the brocade wholeheartedly in order to win the mercy of the queen mother and let Penny return to heaven as soon as possible. One day, several fairies saw that the Weaver Girl was unhappy all day, so they begged the Queen Mother to let them go to the Lian Bi Pool on earth. The heavenly queen was in a good mood and promised them.

It is said that Penny was born in a peasant family and was named "Cowherd" after being demoted to the mortal world. Because of the early death of parents, my brother and sister-in-law were very mean to Cowherd, so Cowherd lived with an old cow.

As we all know, this old cow was the Taurus who interceded for Penny and was saved by the Queen Mother. One day, the old cow suddenly said to the cowherd, "Go to Bilianchi today. There are some fairies taking a bath there. You hide that red fairy costume, and the owner of the red fairy costume will become your wife. " When the cowherd saw that the old cow could talk and knew that it was sacred, he did as the old cow said.

The owner of that red fairy dress is a weaver girl. Although Cowherd doesn't remember Weaver Girl, Weaver Girl recognizes him as a petunia. So the Weaver Girl agreed to the Cowherd's proposal, and they got married and started a happy life. Soon, they also gave birth to a son and a daughter. ? However, the good times did not last long. When the heavenly queen knew it, she quickly sent heavenly soldiers to take the Weaver Girl back to heaven.

On this day, the weaver girl was cooking, and the cowherd who came back from the field told her, "The old cow is dead. It said that I should peel it off and take it to the sky in an emergency. " When the weaver girl heard this, she naturally understood the meaning of the old cow, so she asked the cowherd to peel off the cowhide and bury the old cow. Just then, there was a strong wind, and the weaver girl was taken away by the heavenly soldiers.

Seeing this, the cowherd quickly put on the skin of the old cow and put a pair of baskets on the peach, in which sat a pair of children. It's almost time to catch up with the Weaver Girl. The Queen Mother has just arrived. When she saw this, she tore the golden hairpin off her head and pulled it between the cowherd and the weaver girl. Suddenly, a tumultuous Tianhe river crosses between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Cowherd and two children are crying here in Tianhe, and Weaver Girl is crying there, looking at her husband and children. The Queen Mother was also moved by this scene, so she left Cowherd and two children in the sky, and only allowed them to meet at Queqiao on July 7th every year.

Now, among the stars in the autumn night sky, we can also see two big and bright stars on both sides of the Milky Way, namely Vega and Altair, and there are two small stars on both sides of Altair, which are a pair of children of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

Extended data:

Folklore:

Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a very famous folk story in China, and the earliest folk story about stars in China.

There is a passage in Shuo Wen Jie Zi written by Fang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "There are beautiful women in Hedong, the sons of the Emperor of Heaven, and sewing workers who work hard year after year to weave clothes of clouds and silks. Hard work is extremely unhappy, and the appearance is too messy to tidy up. God pitied him for being alone and married the morning glory in Hexi. Since then, the work of weaving has been abolished and greed has been achieved. When the emperor was angry, he was responsible for Hedong and held a meeting once a year. "

Romantic feelings:

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl contains the romance from the classics, and also reflects the romantic feelings of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl contains the classic romance and also reflects the precious and tortuous love. We believe that on both sides of the Tianhe River, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been silently guarding each other, witnessing the precious spirit of "life is precious, love is more expensive" and inspiring the determination and courage of young men and women to pursue beautiful love!

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cowherd and Weaver Girl