The World Is Coming Again On July 7 Talking about the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd (1)

  Yang Jiabu's New Year painting "CowHerd Moves" The seventh day of the first month of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Beggars Festival, which is also the day when the cowherd weaver girls meet. Whenever this season, looking at the night sky, the blinking morning glory and Vega on both sides of the Milky Way, I can't help but think about it. Although the two stars will never come together, the legend of the cowherd and the weaver girl for thousands of years has always made people hope that they can cross the river and meet romantically on the Queqiao Bridge. The legend of the cowherd weaver girl traces its origin > the story of the cowherd weaver girl originated from the stars in the sky. The Shijing Xiaoya Dadong first told the story of the cowherd weaver girl in the form of poetry, and although the weaving and cattle herding had been attached to the two stars at that time, it was also believed that the two of them could neither weave silk silk nor drive cattle to drive, but only two stars in the sky. > the Han Dynasty, the morning glory star described by people in the form of images is a hanzi, and Vega is a lady. For example, on a constellation portrait stone unearthed in Nanyang, Henan, under the morning glory star is a man leading a cow, and the Vega star is a woman kneeling under the moon palace star, and a tiger between the two indicates the white tiger constellation. A rabbit surrounded by seven stars in the upper left corner of the picture is the symbol of the Moon Palace (Figure 1 The Morning Glory Vega in Nanyang, Henan). The images of morning glory and weaver girl, as well as white tigers and jade rabbits, are like looking at pictures and talking, and they want to tell people the names of the stars in a specific image. There is also a portrait in the ancestral hall of Xiaotang Mountain in Changqing District, Jinan, in which the morning glory is only three stars, and the weaver girl has been arranged on the textile machine as an image of the textile (Figure 2 Jinan Changqing Xiaotang Mountain Morning Glory Weaver Girl). This is the earliest image of the Weaver Girl weaving. Here, Vega is classified as the galaxy of the Sun and the South Dipper, and the Morning Glory is associated with the Moon and the Big Dipper. According to the convention, vega is female, the moon represents the feminine, vega should belong to the category of the moon, and the practice of being arranged around the sun may be to let the female weaver girl close to the masculine sun, and let the male morning glory get close to the feminine moon to close the harmony of yin and yang. In addition, in the huge astrological world, the two stars of morning glory and Vega are selected separately from the sun, the moon and the South Dipper and the Big Dipper, and belong to the two camps of yin and yang, and people may already know that the relationship between the two is relative, and it is separated by yin and yang. This may be the prototype of the image of the morning glory weaver girl marrying in the heavenly court and the separation of the heavenly river. > there is a Weaver Girl Cave in Daxian Mountain on the banks of the Yi River in Yanya Township, Yiyuan County, our province, and folklore says that the Weaver Girl weaves the clouds in the sky here (Figure 3 Yiyuan Weaver Girl Cave). According to the existing inscriptions, the history of the Weaver Girl Cave can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and later, a small village gathered on the other side of the Weaver Girl Cave was naturally named Niulang Guanzhuang, and a Niulang Temple was built in the village. The cowherd weaver girl found a foothold at the source of the Yi River, and the story of imaging in the sky and forming on the ground also took root in the human world, and the cowherd weaver girl also lived an ordinary life of having children in the human world. The above content is organized and published by (this network), some of the content comes from the Network, the copyright belongs to the original author, if there is an infringement of your original copyright, please inform, we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.