To tell the truth, as a Xiangyang person, I feel that I am too lonely and unheard of, in the past I only knew that there were many beautiful women in Xiangyang, but I didn't know that the reason was that there was a beautiful water god here, to what extent was it beautiful? Cao Zhi wrote that the goddess of Luoshui is as beautiful as she is. He said that Roselle was as frightening as a dragon, with narrow shoulders, thin waist like a bundle, white neck, like a light wind cage moon, like a whirlwind of snow, looking like an autumn chrysanthemum, smelling of a fragrant orchid, simply put, she is a heavenly immortal among the heavenly immortals.
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On this trip to Luoyang, I listened to people recite the full text of "Luoshenfu" in the Luoyang Museum, and my voice was full of emotion, like a mesmerized, and I felt that this person was too powerful. Truthfully speaking, because I have not learned any techniques, I only know cao Zhi's name and do not know its text. After returning from Luoyang, I suddenly became interested, turned it over and read it carefully from beginning to end, and was surprised to find that the goddess of Xiangyang was mentioned twice in the article, specifically the Han River water goddess Younu.
The fourth paragraph of the "Roselle Endowment" reads, "The money of attachment is real, and the fear of si ling's self-deception." The abandonment of the "Confession of the Friendly Fu" is about the han river goddess, Cao Zhi originally wanted to make friends with the luoshui goddess he met by chance, but he felt that Zheng Jiaofu had been teased by the han river goddess, so he hesitated. The sixth paragraph also says, "Ernai is a mixture of spirits, or a choreographer, or a play of Qingliu, or a xiang shenzhu, or a pearl, or a jade feather." From the second concubine of Nanxiang, with the wandering daughter of Hanbin", which means that the goddess of Luoshui summoned many gods and immortals, and standing next to the two sisters of the Xiangjiang River, the moth emperor and the female Ying (daughter of Yao, wife of Shun), holding the goddess of the Han River, and so on. Probably in his mind, only these three beautiful women can be called goddesses, and our Jianghan younu are honored and flowing for hundreds of years.
Curious about how this Han River goddess came to be, I checked a lot of information and some scholars' research articles, and finally figured out a little clue.
The prototype of the han river goddess is actually just a beautiful woman on the han river in the pre-Qin period, and later passed it on to give her the status of a goddess. The first record appears in the Pre-Qin Period's Book of Poetry, Zhou Nan Hanguang, but the only thing in it is "There are trees in the south, and there is no rest." Han has a wandering girl, can not be thought of" text, there is no deified expression, it is said that it is only a mountain song sung by the woodcutters when they work, and the wandering girl at this time is only a generic name, as long as it is a good-looking woman on the han river, she can be called a wandering woman.
After the Han Dynasty, the Han River tourists began to appear in the image of the goddess, the most famous of which is the story of "Jiaofu Xiepei" told in the "LuoshenFu", which is first derived from the Records of the Han Dynasty", "The Inner Biography of Han Poetry" and "The Biography of The Daughters". Jiaofu, it is said that he was a Zheng guo of the Zhou Dynasty, this is not important, the important thing is that he must be a prodigal brother, saying that he once traveled to the Han River Hangaotai, that is, now Xiangyang Wanshan area, met two beautiful women on the riverside, in order to seek exchanges, he went forward to talk, hoping that the beautiful woman would give him the pendant that she carried, we Xiangyang beauty is of course smart and clever, at a glance to see through his clumsy nature, ready to tease him, just take off the pearl and give it to him. As a result, without taking a few steps, Jiaofu found that the Peizhu who had just been carried into his arms was missing, and then turned back to find the beautiful woman in surprise, and the beautiful woman also disappeared in this instant, and this prodigal prince suddenly woke up, he must have met the Han River water god wandering girl, and he was played.
This passage in Cao Zhi's "LuoshenFu" clearly expresses three meanings, one is that the Han River goddess predates the Luoshui goddess; the other is that the woman he meets in front of him is as beautiful as the Han River goddess, and the other is worried about whether he will also be played by the goddess like Jiaofu. Most importantly, "Luoshenfu" as a divine passage was widely praised by the world, and the content about the goddess of the Han River was naturally widely quoted, and by the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, as a history book designed for recording the emperors, the "Imperial Century" directly set the identity of the Han River younu - the two concubines of King Zhou Zhao, named Yan Juan and Yan Yu, the two drowned while accompanying King Zhao on his tour of the Jianghan Dynasty, and the people on both sides of the strait often sacrificed on the riverside, and slowly had a divine throne. Some literati inkers simply marked in the articles they compiled: Younu, the goddess of the Han River! Since then, the name of the "Han River Goddess" has entered the annals of history and spread in various works, and has become famous to this day.