Exploring the legend of Qixi Festival | Unlawed mystery

Author:Huijian Art Lecture Hall Time:2022.08.04

Friends, is Tanabata really Valentine's Day? Is the cowherd and weaver girl really a couple?

I spent 16 hours and sorted out the complete history of the Tanabata evolution. I feel that I have completely subverted my past cognition!

Speaking of the Qixi Festival, of course, the day when the cowherd and weaver girl bridge meets. We have always thought that there is a love story of love, the sea of stones, the sea of stones, and sings.

But as a result, when I sorted out, I found that the Qixi Festival had nothing to do with the cowherd and weaver girl!

So today we can reasonably solve the case through the data and evidence that the various dynasties can dig, and analyze in depth. What is going on?

Who is the Cowherd Weaver Girl? How did you become the largest couple IP in history!

In fact, everyone knows the story of the Qixi Festival. The two cowherds and the weaver girl were dismantled by the queen mother and mother. Only this day can meet through the bridge!

This day is of course gratifying, right, and full of Chinese -style romantic feelings.

Therefore, in general, Tanabata gave a flower, an appointment, and a Valentine's Day or something.

However, we found that there is no story of the cowherd and weaver girl at all, and there is no story about the story of any couple.

What is there? Our first question is here:

Is there a cowboy weaver girl? If so, who is they?

1. Who is the cowherd and weaver girl?

Regarding the records of cowherd and weaver girls first appeared in the "Book of Songs" during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the name of this poem was "Dadong".

The Zhou Dynasty was the system of that vassal country. At that time, the small nations closer to Hao Jing were called Xiaodong, and the far away was Dadong.

Then there was a strategic essential of from Haojing to the Eastern countries. The Da Zhou Dynasty transported the army from this road to the east, and also transported back the wealth from the east on this road. This is the so -called "Zhou Dao".

Open the way, there are suburbs in five miles, well in ten miles, and twenty miles.

—— "Yi Zhou Book"

The "Dadong" in the Book of Songs sings because this vampire avenue brings squeezing and labor, and of course, the small countries in the east will of course have various complaints about the rule of the Zhou Dynasty.

There are Hansian, and the prison also has light.

跂跂跂, seven all day.

Although Qixiang is not a newspaper.

可可睆睆睆睆箱箱睆睆睆睆.

- "Book of Songs · Xiaoya · Dadong" (excerpt)

Looking up at the brilliant galaxy in the sky,

The glittering shining like the mirror.

I saw those three -legged weaver actresses,

Seven shifts and operations all day long.

Although it is busy running a day and one night,

After all, it cannot be woven into a beautiful article.

Look at the bright glory star,

Nor can it be like a real cattle.

This poem comes from "The Book of Songs · Xiaoya". "Xiaoya" refers to the singing of the scholar class with Yale class.

Therefore, the text in this poem is really very cultural, using many descriptions of the astrology to carry out metaphors of people's livelihood and politics.

It is here that the two names of Cowherd and Occupation Girl appeared for the first time.

The intentions of these few sentences are in the Galaxy in the sky. The weaver actress can't weave it, and then the cattle star can't pull the car.

There are also Qi Mingxing in the back, why is Chang Gengxing? It refers to the stars of the two heavenly stars, the stars of the weaver and the glory.

So simply speaking, theoretically, the glory and the weaver girl are actually two "proper nouns" in ancient Chinese astronomy.

Even if it is anthropomorphic, as a star god, it is also their own duties. One is responsible for weaving. One is responsible for pulling cattle.

No one is in the world.

In our current astronomy field, the weaver actress is the main star of the piano, and the glory star is the heart of the alarm. It is said that the distance between these two stars is 14 light years.

What is the concept of this distance?

Let's say that, I checked it, 1 light years, if you take the rocket for about 30,000 years. In 14 light years, it will take 420,000 years!

In short, if they want to meet and talk about love, or let the magpie give them a bridge every year, it is still very difficult.

Let me tell you, if most people talk about Tanabata, it may be here. But after our deepening digging, the interesting things about the Qixi Festival have just begun!

Let's take a look, without the protagonist cowherd and the weaver girl. What exactly does the real Qixi Festival look like?

Although they have no couple relationship at all, they have no husband and wife relationship, but on July 7th, the festival of the day of July 7th is still going to live.

The folk record about this day was first in the Han Dynasty.

"Hancai women often wear seven -hole needles on the placket on July 7th."

"By July 7th, Linbaizi Pond was made in Lingle. Lohe, he was deasted with five colors, which was linked to love."

——The Han Dynasty Liu Ye "Xijing Miscellaneous"

At that time, people will be exposed to scriptures, clothes, drinking porridge, and playing porridge, playing Western Music in the palace, and will also give each other a hand rope similar to five -color silk threads, and so on. It is very ritual. The palace girls also played needle and lead, which attracted the people of the people to follow suit.

In other words, in the Han Dynasty in July 7th, it was indeed an unusual day and had formed a large -scale folk custom. It's just that the love of the cowherd and weaver has nothing to do.

What is the special significance of those day on July 7th?

Even the most important allusions have gone. Why are you still spending the holidays for thousands of years? 2. Why did the Cowherd Weaver Girl meet on July 7th?

I think, first of all, this is related to the worship of the ancient people.

Like one, three, nine, these orders have a special meaning in Chinese culture.

This overlap with a single order, which is even more unusual!

Think about it, January 1st in the lunar calendar, Spring Festival, March 3, March, May 5th, Dragon Boat Festival, September 9th, Chung Yeung Festival.

How about it, is it all the important traditional festivals of the ancients? None of them fell?

Eh? Do you say that there are single numbers behind the nine, and November 11?

In fact, in the eyes of the ancients, nine are the largest yang. In their eyes, Eleven was reincarnated from the beginning, nine or nine!

So there is no festival in November 11th in the lunar calendar. Maybe it is to make up for this regret that today's Gregorian Calendar November 11th, there are festivals.

According to the classics records, the July 7th of the Han Dynasty was also related to an important person. In his body, a major thing happened.

This person is Emperor Hanwu.

Judging from the records of later generations, he and July July were the entanglement of fate.

First of all, there are records that he was born on July 7th of the lunar calendar.

"The Emperor was born in the Lanlan Hall on July 7th of the Emperor Yiyi"

- "Hanwu Story"

He has shocked the Huns many times in his life, and he has a lot of talents, so there is no need to say more about the important role in Chinese history.

When he was older, he was obsessed with asking for immortality and directly promoted China's fairy culture.

It is said that he has a palace that is used to worship the mother of West, and he is very devout.

What about this Mother Western, was deeply moved to know this. Since the emperor is so sincere, okay, let me show a spirit, let you see it!

Alas, on July 7th of Emperor Hanwu (46), the Queen Mother of the West first condemned God to inform Emperor Hanwu, saying that the Queen Mother of the West was coming! You are ready to receive the reception, and the supply should be provided quickly!

As soon as Emperor Hanwu heard it, he asked Xian to ask for so many years, and his wish was finally realized! Don't prepare yet!

So on July 7th, seven minutes. You see here is another seven.

How many daily leaks and how many at night are in ancient times. What we are talking about today is from this timing method.

But its standards have always been in a dynamic evolution, and the moment of each dynasty may not be the same.

In short, at that time, the night leakage was seven times, and the Queen Mother West came from a purple cloud car, and she was extraordinary. There are various descriptions in the classics.

The mother of the West sent the Bai Lu to the emperor, which was for the Jiuhua Hall to wait for it. On the night of July 7th, the Queen Mother took the purple cloud car and the west of the palace, the east to the south, the big Hua on the head, and the greenness of the cloud. There are three blue birds, such as Wu Da, beside the maid.

- "Museum"

In the first month of the first year of Yuanfeng, he sacrificed Songshan, and he started the god palace. Emperor Zhai for seven days, the temple was repaid. By April Wuchen, Emperor Ye lived in Chenghua Hall, Dongfang Shuo and Dong Zhongshu. Suddenly, when a woman, she was very beautiful. The emperor asked suddenly, and the woman said: "My Queen of the Palace Gongyu also made it to the Queen Mother, and came from Kunshan." The Emperor said: "Wen Zi is light all the way to survive, and the position of the emperor And repeatedly praying for mountains. Diligence! Some people who can be taught. From this hundred days of clear fasting, people are not idle, until July 7, the Queen Mother is temporarily. " Suddenly, the jade girl suddenly did not know where she was. The emperor asked Dongfang Shuo: "Who?" Shuo said: "It is the mother of the West Queen Mother Zilan room jade girl, often passed on the mission, exchanged in the Lingzhou, and at the time of the customs, the rumors of the cada. Call back, make the leader, the true spirit official. "

- "Hanwu Emperor Inner Biography"

The emperor then boarded the platform of the spirit, Sheng Zhai's tranquility, and the four parties, the power committee was in the Tsuka Jae. On July 7th, it was repaired in the palace and set up a temple to recommend the place with Zi Luo, the fragrance of Baihe, Zhang Yunjin's account, but the lamp of Jiuguang, set up the jujube of Yumen, and the wine of the grapes. , Bowled the food, it is the official of the official. Emperor Nai Sheng was standing in His Majesty, and inside the door of the Duan Duan, he must not peep. Silence inside and outside. Drive by Yunyun.

- "Hanwu Emperor Inner Biography"

After that, the Queen Mother West also sent him a few fairy peaches. It matured for three thousand years, and he could strengthen his body after eating.

Unfortunately, if you send a mature peach in 9,000 years, it is said that he can live and Tianqi.

So you see, whether the day of July 7th is very special. On this day, it has some kind of divine power. It can have the opportunity to meet and break the meaning of taboos.

I think that the cowherd and weaver girl who could not be seen in July 7th was only able to meet this day, and they could not get rid of the story of Emperor Hanwu.

And according to my personal reasoning, Emperor Hanwu should have made great promotion to the day of Qixi, or later generations conducted IP operations on Qixi through his name.

Although I have no evidence. But you see, whether it is birthday or the day he meets the Mother of the West, it is really special for an emperor.

For the ancients, what miracles had to do if they were all right, what miracles were on the emperor's head, like "Liu Bang Ye Chu Chu Snake", what "Chen Sheng Wu Guangyu's belly Dan Shu", etc. Endless.

With such a material of July 7, can you do a little less than doing your homework?

What is the day of deification? Hey, that is, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

I also found such sporadic records in the book:

It is said that Emperor Hanwu once set up two stone men on both sides of the Kunming Pond, which was trained in his own military, one was a cowboy and the other was the weaver.

In the Kunming Pond, there are two stone people, standing glory and weaving women in the pool, with Xiangtianhe.

—— "Chuma · Han Kunming Pond" quotes "Guan Fu Ancient Language"

Of course, maybe this is purely an imitation of the star.

Because on both sides of the Galaxy in the sky, the two brightest stars are the glory and weaver actresses. So he may be anthropomorphic when he imitates, and use two gods to add some buff to himself.

Therefore, I think that Emperor Hanwu not only promoted the deification of the day of July 7th, but also, it is likely that he also played an important role in promoting the matter of the cowherd and weaver girl.

How about it, is this sorting out here, is it so interesting?

Speaking of this, you may have to ask: Does the cowherd and the weaver be in love since the Han Dynasty?

Third, the history of love evolution of cowherd and weaver girl

To be precise, it may only start from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

According to the unearthed cultural relics so far, on the portrait stone unearthed in Sichuan, the cowherd has led her cattle and ran to the weaver girl. This is also the first time that the love elements of these two immortals have appeared.

Prior to this, including other cultural relics at the same time, the cowherd and the weaver girl only appeared as the image of the star god, and they were not given any emotional colors.

In other words, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, people in some areas have given love to these two gods.

Originally, the two stars, which were not related to each other, began to "Yingying in the water, and the pulse could not be language."

"Lao Lingxing Star, the Han girl in Jiaojiao River.

Fiber -fiber hand, Zhazha 杼.

Non -chapter all day, weeping like rain.

The river is clear and shallow, and it is a few to meet.

Yingying is a water, and the pulse is not allowed. "

—— "Nineteen Poems · Morning Star"

Now that love has begun to sprout, the development of the two people has risen rapidly.

If the Eastern Han Dynasty only started to sprout in some places, in the Jin Dynasty in the Jin Dynasty, the cowherd and the weaver girl began to date on the Qixi Festival!

At this time, there is no bridge section that can only meet by a magpie bridge, and there is no such thing as the West Queen Mother's stick, which is a date -a sweet love.

On July 7th, the glory and weaver girl, Shihui Tianhe.

—— Jin Fu Xuan "Proposed Sky Question"

July 7 ... Speaking of these two stars.

—— "Turkish Ji" at Jin Zhou

There were various ways to have this day, right? Now adding such a romantic love story. Then everyone naturally upgraded the custom. At the beginning of the night view of the cattle butler and weaver two stars, there are also sacrifice to set up soup cakes, which is the white soup cooked pasta.

Wei Shiren may ask Dong Xunyun: "July 7th is a good day, and the diet is different from ancient times. Why?" Xun said: "July is cooked, seven days are the number of yang, so it is treasured. Cake, there is no recovery. "

—— "Turkish Ji" at Jin Zhou

Moreover, since the cowboy and weaver girl public date, our mortal men and women can not all want to date.

How about, have you found that once love is sprouting, it really can't stop it!

In the Southern Dynasties, they were not only falling in love, but also entered the palace of marriage. The weaver was assigned by the Emperor Xu to the cowboy.

At this time, the people of eating melon began to not be satisfied with pure HE.

The story of the cowherd and weaver girl began to have obvious inheritance and transition. For example, it was forced to be separated, and the plot that could only meet each other once a year. This sweet and abused was added at this time.

"There is a weaver daughter in the east of Tianhe, and the daughter of the emperor also, the annual machinery of the labor, weaving into Yunjin Tianyi, the appearance is too good. The emperor pity him alone, and he marrys Hexi's cattle. When returning to Hedong, Xu Nian met for a while. In the seventh day of the autumn, the first for the first time, it was said that it was the sun and the weaver girl in Hedong.

—— "Monthly Order broader · July Order" quotes southern dynasty Liang Yinyin "Novel"

This is not over yet. It may be that everyone feels that the sweetness and then abuse are not enough. I found that it didn't take long, and there was a more abused plot, which became a very wide version now:

Cowherd became a mortal and saved an old cow who was degraded from the sky. In order to repay the grace, the old cow gave him a trick and asked him to steal the clothes of the weaver, and finally made the weaver unable to raise the sky to go home and marry the cowherd.

The story of this version is not so simple. You see, the old cow comes out such a damage, do you say to the cowherd, or do you revenge to the Mother Western Mother who devaleted it?

Moreover, the story has evolved here, is it increasingly bumpy and more abused.

There is also a legend that is very similar to this story. It is often confused, that is, Dong Yong and Seven Fairies.

They all combined the legend of China's earliest fairy feathers in "Searching God".

The man in Xinyu County, Yuzhang, saw that there were six or seven women in the field, all clothes and sweaters. I don't know it is a bird. Creeze, get the sweater unraveling by her daughter and take it. That is to go to all birds. The birds flew each other, and a bird could not go alone. His mother asked the girl to ask, knowing that the clothes were under the rice, the clothes flew, and then welcomed the woman, and the woman had to fly.

——Eastern Jin Qianbao "Search God"

Although the author's signature is Qianbao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty historians, most of the original books are gone. Most of the contents are supplemented by future generations, or they will be recorded from other books. So many of the content we see now are after the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and we may not know what dynasties have joined.

Therefore, I speculate that the story of this version should be a relatively behind version.

From the content of this version, we can also get a certain proof.

Like the sweet free love of the two people before, at this time, it became the clothes of the cowherd took away the weaver girl.

I think it can be speculated that this kind of plot should be the era when the status of a woman is relatively low after the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Because the status of women in the Wei and Jin dynasties is still very good compared to other feudal eras, and even has certain autonomy in marriage. Especially women with a certain status should not be as miserable as weaver.

What's more, she is still a star god, a fairy!

So, this is the most basic process of folklore or mythical development.

That is, there is a anthropomorphic support to let them work like a person, and then let them feel feelings, and then add various sweets as the times, and then various abuse.

After you see us in depth, refine it again, and you will find that this process is actually very simple.

4. July 7th is more important to men?

The Tanabata customs developed during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, I think the most interesting thing is clues begging.

The girls put the fruits in the courtyard, hoping that the spider was connected to the Internet.

If you see a spider web that night, even begging is successful. And the closer the net is, the better. It is estimated that the spider web web is almost the same as the weaver weaving.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, Tanabata could be regarded as its high time.

Prior to this, some places were not uniform. When he arrived at Song Taizong, he directly set off, stipulating that July 7th became a legal festival and one day of vacation benefits.

On the evening, the women's women settled in colorful and wore a seven -hole needle. Or with gold and silver vermiculite as a needle, Chen Guaguo begged in the court, and there was Xizi.com on the melon, but it was thought.

——The Southern Dynasties "Jing Chu Sui Ji"

The Qixi Customs is used as a baby in the shape of a wax. It is thought of the play in the floating water.

- "Chronicle of the Tang Dynasty"

One day for the whole people, of course, the activities of the Qixi Festival are of course upgraded again. It is also celebrated during the day. It is also celebrated at night. Tanabata, really has a fight with our current Spring Festival.

Tanabata Jiachen, in the style.

—— Song Taizong "The Seventh Day is the Tanabata Festival"

"There is a beggar city in front of Panlou, Tokyo, and selling begging. Since the beginning of July, the car and horse are noisy. Two or three days before the Qixi Festival, the car and horses have been stunned, and the night is not scattered. Secondly, Li Fang. Jing, Baokang, Qianzheng outside the door, Mujin, and Guangqin's house, there are also begging cities, but they are not as good as Pan Lou. "

——Chen Yuanliang's "Shi Guang Ji"

In the past, Tanabata was mainly girls' holidays, but at this time in the Song Dynasty, even men began to get busy.

One is that you may have to be busy, so there is no need to say this.

In addition, in some parts of the southeast, men have a custom, worshiping Kui Xing! Begging for yourself to be able to get the title of the gold list, and take the test of Hengtong.

So you think that the Song Dynasty was a highlight of the Qixi Festival.

The woman begged Qiao, the man asked for the list. Also busy dating, wishing. It feels like many people's life events have fallen on this day, right!

How about, are you like me now, have you been completely subverted to Qixi?

After such a long time change, many things seem to be confused. But we have listed a lot of records and evidence today to assist our reasoning. Do you discover that any traditional holiday, customs, and stories in our country are far more simple in our impression?

This is why I often say that picking any Chinese culture is like solving the case.

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