The ancestors used rich imagination to create a beautiful, magical world for future generations, and let the world dream of the ancient mythological world.
And the ancients in the order of things, like four groups, such as the four kings, the four talents, etc., even today, this practice is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the most typical example is the familiar "four masterpieces", now people know the version of the four masterpieces, is only proposed in modern times.
In ancient times, there were four beautiful women in the world, namely Sable Cicada, Xi Shi, Yang Yuhuan and Wang Zhaojun, coincidentally, there were also four beautiful women in the heavens, and the beauties in the heavens could not be called beauties, but should be called fairies, of which the Chang'e fairy was a household name, and the other three were little known.
First, Chang'e Fairy
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In the pre-Qin classic "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is recorded that there was an ancient heavenly emperor named Di Jun, one of Emperor Jun's wives was Xi he Xianzi, she and Emperor Jun gave birth to ten suns, in addition, Emperor Jun also had another wife, changxi, the moon goddess, and she and Emperor Jun gave birth to twelve moons.
Because the "羲" character in Changxi is homophonous with the "E" character of Chang'e in ancient sounds, people also believe that the past life of Chang'e Fairy is the moon goddess Changxi.
The story of Chang'e Running Moon that people know today first appeared in the book "Huainanzi", and the original version was that Chang'e stole The Elixir of Houyi and ascended to the Moon.
Later, people used their rich imagination to add bricks and tiles to the story of Chang'e running to the moon, and only then did they have a version that is now widely circulated.
Second, the Goddess of Wushan
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Wushan Mountain, is a beautiful mountain range in the central region of the mainland, the Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Shu once wrote a poem: "Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for the Wushan Mountain is not a cloud", Wushan stretches for thousands of miles, there are twelve main peaks, of the twelve peaks of wushan Mountain, the scenery of the goddess peak is the most spectacular, "the goddess should be unharmed, when the world is shocked."
Wushan has many beautiful legends, among which the goddess yaoji of Wushan is the most well-known to the world. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, two poets of the Chu State were inscribed with the goddess of Wushan, one of which was Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs and Mountain Ghosts" and the other was Song Yu's "Goddess Endowment".
It is worth noting that due to the misleading of film and television dramas, people are easy to treat the mother of the Erlang God as Yao Ji, in fact, the story of the Erlang God splitting the mountain to save the mother has a long history, and its mother is the third princess of the Queen Mother's mother, that is, the Yunhua Fairy, not the goddess of Wushan.
Third, the hibiscus fairy
The Hibiscus Fairy is also known as the "Hundred Flowers Virgin", and the legendary "Hundred Flowers Brew" brewed by the Hibiscus Fairy is famous in the Fairy Realm, and she once presented this Hundred Flowers Brew to the Queen Mother as a congratulatory gift.
When the Hibiscus Fairy brewed the Hundred Flowers from the Heavenly Garden, Magu had obstructed the Hibiscus Fairy, and in this regard, a fairy boy was upset for the Hibiscus Fairy and helped the Hibiscus Fairy to fight for reason, and this fairy boy was also degraded by the Queen Mother Niangniang because of this matter. When the Furong Fairy learned the news, Xia Fan fell in love with the reincarnation of the fairy boy, that is, "Chen Qiulin", and began a beautiful and moving love story.
Fourth, shoot the fairy
Finally, I have to mention the Gu Shooting Fairy, in Feng Menglong's "Cautionary Tale", the Gu Shooting Fairy and the Chang'e Fairy are juxtaposed, which says: "The Guanghan Fairy is out of the middle of the moon, and the Gu Shoot God comes from the snow"
And as early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period. Zhuangzi dreamed of the Gu Shooting Fairy, and in "The Getaway" depicted the beauty of the Gu Shooting Fairy, in which he said: "Despise the mountain of Gu Shoot, there are gods and people who dwell." The skin is like ice and snow, and it is like a virgin. Don't eat grains, suck wind and drink dew, ride the clouds, fly the dragon, swim away from the world"
In Jin Yong's martial arts "Divine Eagle Heroes", Xiaolongnü does not eat human fireworks, and Qiu Chuji of the Quanzhen Sect once used a poem "No Vulgar Thoughts" to compare the little dragon girl with a gu shooting fairy, which said: "It is like a gu shooting real person, a heavenly posture, and a high spirit", and the qiu in real history did write this poem.
Above, there are the four great immortals in the myth, namely chang'e fairy, Wushan goddess, furong fairy, and gu shooting fairy.