Don’t know yet: readers of the story of the Cowherd and the weaver girl, the following Xiaobian of China story network will give you a detailed introduction, and then read on~
The seventh day of July in the lunar calendar is a traditional festival in China, Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao festival or Qiqiao Festival. The origin of Qixi Festival is mainly due to two figures, cowherd and Weaver Girl:
Once upon a time, there was an honest and kind-hearted young man. People called him Niulang. Not long after he first knew the world, his mother and father were separated from each other because of some changes.
But the cowherd also has a brother, so the cowherd lives with his brother, and his life is also passable. His brother takes good care of his own brother. Slowly, my brother grew up, and it was time to talk about marriage, marry and have children. Then, with the help of a matchmaker, he married a woman surnamed ma.
Niu Lang’s good days were gradually disrupted by his new sister-in-law at about this time. Ma Ma is particularly disgusted with the cowherd, and often mistreats the cowherd, denying him food and clothing, and letting the cowherd do all kinds of hard work. My brother often works for others outside and seldom works at home, so he doesn’t know much about the situation at home.
One day, Ma asked the cowherd to go out to herd cattle. There were nine cows in the family, but Ma told the cowherd that he could not go home until he put 10 cows in the family. The cowboy drove the cattle out of the door and went to the mountains. The cowboy found a place with abundant green grass, put the cattle in the grass to eat, and made himself unhappy under a big tree.
At this time, a white haired old man came over and asked the cowherd, “what’s wrong with you, son? Why are you so unhappy?”? The cowherd told the old man exactly what happened to him.
After hearing this, the old man laughed and said, “don’t be sad, son. I tell you that there is an old sick cow in Funiu Mountain. If you find this cow and help it heal, you can drive it home. Then the old man disappeared.
After listening to the old man’s words, the cowherd trekked to Funiu Mountain and found a seriously ill old cow in Funiu Mountain. The cowherd kept this old cow for more than a month. These days, the cowherd fed it grass, helped it fetch water from the river, and treated its wounds. Finally, the old cow slowly recovered.
The old bull told the cowboy, “I am the great God of the grey bull in heaven. I was demoted to earth because I violated the rules of heaven. I broke my leg and couldn’t move. So I am trapped here. You are my lifesaver. What do you say I need to do for you to repay you?”?
The cowherd told the old cow everything about himself. After hearing this, the old cow asked the cowherd to drive himself and the other nine cows back to his brother’s house. However, Ma’s sister-in-law still made trouble for the cowherd everywhere, and even wanted to harm the cowherd, but every time she was rescued by the old cow who was demoted to earth. Finally, Ma finally couldn’t bear it any longer and drove the cowherd out of the house. When the cowherd left, he only took the old cow out of the house.
One day later, the weaver girl and the fairies in the sky came to the world to play together. The cowherd got to know the weaver girl under the understanding of the old cow. The two people fell in love with each other and had an extremely strong love for each other. Then, despite the rules of the heavenly doctrine, the weaver girl secretly went down to earth to marry the Cowherd and lived together. The weaver girl also distributed the silkworms she brought from heaven to the world, and taught everyone how to raise silkworms and draw silk, and how to weave bright and smooth silk.
During the time when the Cowherd and the weaver girl were together, the cowherd went to work in the fields at sunrise, and the weaver girl was busy raising silkworms and spinning silk. When the cowherd returned home at sunset, the Weaver Girl cooked a rich dinner for the cowherd. Their lives were sweet and happy. Later, the two had children, a boy and a girl. The four member family was the envy of the villagers. The family of four lived happily.
However, the good times did not last long. The queen mother learned about the secret landing of the weaver girl. The queen mother herself came down to earth and forcibly brought the weaver girl back to heaven. The two loving couples were thus separated.
Niu Lang missed Zhinu and wanted to go to heaven to see her, but he had no magic power. At that time, the old cow told Niu Lang that after his death, Niu Lang could make a pair of shoes out of his skin, and wear these shoes, Niu Lang could go to heaven. Later, the cowherd made a pair of shoes out of the skin of the old cow after the old cow died, according to the old cow’s words. The cowherd wore these shoes and dragged his two children to the sky to find the weaver girl.
Seeing that the weaver girl was about to be seen, the queen mother pulled out the gold hairpin on her head, then turned around and waved it. A turbulent river of heaven appeared. The Cowherd and the weaver girl were separated by this river of heaven. They could only weep at each other. The loyalty of Niu Lang and Zhi Nu to love finally moved magpies. Countless magpies flew here at this time and built a magnificent magpie bridge on the Tianhe river. Niu Lang and Zhi Nu went to the magpie bridge and hugged each other. They didn’t want to be separated for a long time. Out of desperation, the queen mother could only allow two people to meet each other on the magpie bridge on July 7 every year.
Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year, the girls would come to the flower season, look up at the starry sky, look for Altair and Vega on both sides of the Milky way, hope to see their annual meeting, beg God to let them be as dexterous as Vega, and pray for a satisfactory marriage, thus forming the Qixi Festival.
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