Golden Boy Qing Purple Medicine Jade Girl offers Qinglian
This is the image of a golden boy and jade girl standing on both sides of The Zhenwu Emperor as described by a poet in the past. The so-called golden boy and jade girl refer to the famous Zhou Gong and peach blossom girls in mainland china.
Zhou Gong
The Duke of Zhou refers to the fourth son of Ji Chang the Prince of Zhouwen and the younger brother of Ji Fa the King of Zhou Wu, with the surname Ji and the name Dan. He was the founding father of the Western Zhou Dynasty, an outstanding politician, military man, thinker, and educator. Revered by later generations as "Yuan Sheng", he was a pioneer of Confucianism and the founder of Confucianism in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty in China.
The Duke of Zhou proposed and improved the patriarchal system, the sub-feudal system, the law of primogeniture and the well field system, which had a great impact on the formation of China's feudal society. It can be said that his perfection of the ritual system laid the foundation for the eight hundred years of rule of the Zhou Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, honored Zhou Gongdan as a saint of literature in accordance with the ancient system, and Zhou Gong was regarded as a saint by successive rulers and scholars.
The merits of Zhou Gong's life were summarized in the Shangshu Da Biography as follows: "One year to save the chaos, two years to overcome Yin, three years to practice death, four years to build Hou Wei, five years to camp into Zhou, six years to make liturgical music, seven years to become a king." ”
Peach Blossom Girl
According to folklore, the Peach Blossom Girl ♀ was originally the maid ♀ of the Queen Mother's Mother, who violated the Heavenly Rules because she fell in love with the fairy boy Zhou Gong and was punished to cultivate in the human world. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Ye's immortal Taoist drama "Breaking Yin and Yang Bagua Peach Blossom Girl" and "Wisdom Earn Peach Blossom Girl" in the Taihe Zhengyin Spectrum recounted this story in detail. In the Qing Dynasty, the anonymous clan was added to "The Legend of the Peach Blossom Girl Yin and Yang Dou", the plot is more vivid, and the artistic value is higher than the former. In the Qing Dynasty, Chen Fuzheng changed it to the novel "Peach Blossom Girl" according to the Yuan miscellaneous drama. The beautiful woman of the poor family in the story, Peach Blossom Girl, is good at the art of deciphering, and dares to fight and calculate the rich man Zhou Gong of "Zhou Yi", which reflects the conflict between elite culture and folk culture. The Peach Blossom Girl wins in the battle, and the last two reconcile, with a beautiful marriage as a happy ending, the Peach Blossom Girl is also worshipped as the ancestor of fortune tellers and wizards, and later evolved into a goddess who specializes in love marriage.
The story of the peach blossom girl was very popular in the Ming Dynasty, and the story of her and Zhou Gongdou's marriage was mentioned in "Journey to the West" and "The Surprise of the Second Moment Shooting", and now there are still cost novels passed down. The folklore about the story of the duo goes like this:
Duke of Zhou, a native of Luoyang, shanjibu. Peach Blossom woman's surname is Ren, her father's name is Ren Ding, and she is good at understanding. One day, Zhou Gong sat idly by, and told his servant Peng Zu the fortune of Peng Zu, saying: "At noon on the day after Ru, he should die on the board of the earth pit." ”
Peng Zu was shocked, that is, he said goodbye to ren Ergong's family, the woman asked why, Peng Zu told the truth, and the woman taught Peng Zu to pray to the Seven Stars of the North Palace, the True Martial God, for which he could increase his life expectancy by thirty years and not die. When Zhou Gong heard about it, he was very angry, so he ordered Peng Zu to prepare a red wine gift and send it to the Ren family, named thanksgiving, but in fact he was engaged to his son Zengfu, and the peach blossom girl knew his intentions early, because she allowed it.
Zhou Gongqi greeted his relatives on the day of his relatives, and everywhere he chose the evil time of the fierce god to plot to harm him, while the woman - tried to break it, Zhou Gong admired her cleverness, that is, to prepare a celebration feast, to feast on guests, a family reunion, and its happiness and harmony. Because Zhou Gong and Peach Blossom Girl were both gods, after returning to heaven, Zhenwu was accepted as a servant general.
In the main hall of the Meridian Temple in Xixiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, there is a statue of a peach blossom lady, who is said to be the goddess who rules the love, marriage and fertility of men and women. Every year in March, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the Meridian Mountain is always crowded with young men and women who come to court and have children, which is said to be extremely spiritual and has a certain influence on the local people. There is also a temple of Madame Peach Blossom in The Peach Blossom Cave in Hanyang, Wuhan, where people come to worship and remember her, but also to seek loyal love and happy marriage.