The 15th day of the Ming Dynasty is the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, which has been passed down in China for more than 2,000 years and is also considered to be the traditional Chinese "Valentine's Day". The poetry, song and drama of the literati and inkers are not lacking in the situation of lovers meeting on the lantern night. Ouyang Xiu wrote: "On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was as bright as day. The moon is on the willow tip, and the person is about after dusk. There is also Xin Renjie's "The crowd looked for him a thousand hundred degrees, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in the middle of the light." "The depictions are all about the beautiful days when the Lantern Festival has not yet fallen and the moon is rising.
Almost every Chinese has heard the beautiful legend of the cowherd weaver girl in childhood. What does this protagonist of a famous folk love story in ancient China look like? Yu Gengzhe, a professor at the School of History and Culture of Shaanxi Normal University, posted on his personal Weibo a statue of the Weaver Girl of The Han Wudi emperor Kunming Chi Niulang in Chang'an, and joked with an article: "They grow up like this once a year, you can also, come on." ”
Click on the picture, for a while it is a little difficult to distinguish who is the cowherd, who is the weaver girl... Netizens who were amused by Yu Gengzhe also left a message to comfort, "After all, more than two thousand years old, it must be old." "It's because I grew up like this that it's enough to see you once a year"...
It is understood that the two stone statues are located in Changjiazhuang Village and Doumen Town Cotton Spinning Factory in Doumen Street, Fengdong New Town, Xixian New District, Shaanxi Province, as if the cowherd weaver girl is far away from the Tianhe River. Locals call them "Shi Ye" and "Shi Po" on weekdays, and on the first day, fifteenth and seventh of the first lunar month, they will also go to the Shi Po Temple to pray for blessings and pray for peace and wealth.
"The so-called weaver girl statue is in the Shi po Temple of Changjiazhuang in Chang'an, with a height of 1.9 meters and a sitting posture. In fact, this is more people think that it is a cowherd, and the reason why the locals insist on thinking that it is a weaver girl is because the sitting posture is like kneeling, symbolizing the superiority of men and women. Yu Gengzhe said that the local villagers could not distinguish between the costumes and hairstyles of men and women in the Han Dynasty, so they called Niu Lang Shi Po and Weaver Girl Shi Ye, and often worshiped.
After looking at the authentic cowherd weaver girl statue, look at the ancient love words on the Changsha kiln porcelain. As everyone knows: "I was not born when the king was born, and I was born with the king as old." Jun hates me for being born late, and I hate jun for being born early. The poem is written on a brown-colored poetry porcelain pot, revealing the sincere feelings of the old and the young.
Tang Dynasty Changsha kiln Brown color poetry porcelain pot (Changsha Museum collection)
In addition, a song: "Boys love flowers, in vain and laborious." If you have money, you will meet, and if you have no money, you will not know each other. The verses of the poem let people see some of the ancient women's view of mate selection.
Red Star News reporter Zeng Qi
Edited by Li Jie
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