Cowherd's Cowherd Culture

Tracing the formation of Valentine's Day in China from the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the time was in the Warring States Period and the place was in Chu State. There is a poem in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong: "You are a weaver girl. You are the one holding the cow all day, not you holding the shovel". This is the earliest written record of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and it is the embryonic form of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There is also a poem "Han Guang" related to the Weaver Girl, which says that "Han has a wandering girl and can't think about it". According to historical records, the word "Han" in the poem refers to Hanshui and Tianhan (Galaxy), and the word "wandering girl" refers to the goddess of Hanshui or Vega. Chu people are far away from Jianghan area and attach great importance to the "prodigal girl in the late Han Dynasty". In addition, among the Han people in Chu, Altair is often confused with Hegu Samsung. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the annotation in the book Chronicle of Jingchu written by Nanyang Zonggu said: "Cowherd star, Jingzhou is called' Hegu'". In Nanyang Han Dynasty stone relief "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Constellation", the river drum is the cow. Nanyang, located in the "north of the Hanshui River", is known as "relying on cows to push Jianghan and covering three mountains with lakes". During the Warring States Period, Nanyang belonged to Chu, and Chu was in Danyang, Xichuan, which was the birthplace of Chu culture with profound cultural accumulation. This historical and cultural background is one of the important conditions for the formation of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Nanyang Han Dynasty Stone Relief and Stars

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated from the worship of stars in ancient times, which is the result of people deifying and personalizing the stars in the sky. Altair is located in the east of the Milky Way, Vega is located in the west of the Milky Way, and the two stars face each other across the river, which makes people have endless reverie. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated in Chu State. In the Han Dynasty, with the development of astronomy, its legends became more extensive, concrete, vivid and vivid, and became important materials for painting and sculpture. The Han Dynasty is an important period in the history of astronomy development in China. Nanyang in the Han Dynasty is one of the famous cities in China, and it has become the intersection of the development of culture and science and technology in the north and south. The collision of various cultural factors has produced profound cultural accumulation. A generation of astronomy master Zhang Heng was born here. In this context, a large number of Han Dynasty stone reliefs have appeared in Nanyang, among which the "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Constellation" vividly combines stars with legends, which is a historical necessity and one of the powerful evidences that the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Nanyang.

Nanyang Silk and Weaver Girl

According to documents, sericulture and silk industry existed in Nanyang Zhou Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was one of the eight silk producing areas in China. The "Imperial Daughter Mulberry" recorded in Dunan Fu by Zhang Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from Nanyang and became famous all over the world. Many versions of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are inseparable from the weaving technology of the Weaver Girl. In the folklore of Tian Kai, the birthplace of Pangu, it is recorded how the Weaver Girl taught the skills of sericulture, reeling and weaving. This is closely related to the famous Nanyang silk. Begging for Qiao, a custom activity originated from Valentine's Day in China, is mainly because the Weaver Girl is the "daughter of the Emperor of Heaven" and is ingenious and admired by girls on earth. Today, when people talk about begging for cleverness, they often quote the record of "Dream in a Dream" written by Nanyang people in the Southern and Northern Dynasties: July 7 is the night when Petunia and Weaver Girl get together. At night, do women tie colorful buildings, wear seven-hole needles or use gold and silver? ? Stone is the needle, and Chen Guaguo is clever in court. According to the History of Chu State published by Henan University Press, "Jingchu starts from southern Henan in the north, Hengyang in the south and Jiujiang in the east. The' Jingchu' referred to in the literature before the Western Zhou Dynasty should be in the area from Nanyang Basin to Jianghan Plain in Henan Province. " So Nanyang is located in the land of Jingchu, thus forming the custom of begging for cleverness, as evidenced by a folk song:

Tonight on Tanabata, I looked at the blue sky and led the cowherd and weaver girl across the river bridge.

Every family watches the autumn moon, and every family wears HongLing.

The above witnessed the initial relationship between the Weaver Girl in Kit Kat and Nanyang Silk.

Nanyang in folklore

The legend of Cowherd and Weaving Girl is widely circulated among the Han people in China, with many versions, but the core content is basically the same. Myths and legends have formed the same story from birth to spread. Generally speaking, adhering to the place name and scenery of the place of origin is a manifestation of the localization of myths and legends, which makes people feel emotionally or intuitively that this story is more credible and spread more widely. According to many modern folk publications, most of them record that the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Nanyang. For example, Cheng Jianjun said in "Folk Myth" by Haiyan Publishing House (1997) that Cowherd was a mulberry in Nanyang County, and it was recorded in "Su Jie" by Religious Culture Publishing House and "The Complete Works of China Folk Art" by Three Gorges Publishing House that "it is said that a long time ago, there was a wise man in Niujiazhuang in the west of Nanyang. In Tongbai County, Nanyang, the birthplace of Pangu Tiankai, there is another version of the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl: When Pangu created the world, because there was no food on the ground at that time, cows stole food from the barn and scattered it to the world, and were given heaven by the Jade Emperor, and their legs were broken. Sun Ruyi cured the cow with Baihua dew, and the cow helped the cowherd and the weaver girl become a family. Later, regardless of punishment, the scalper helped Weaver and Cowherd steal silkworm blue, silkworm eggs, looms and looms from the Heavenly Palace. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been working together and living happily. This story also describes how the Weaver Girl taught the skills of sericulture, silk reeling and silk weaving. The characters and places in different versions of the legend all point to Nanyang, which fully conforms to the localization characteristics of Han myths and legends.

Nanyang cattle has a long history.

The localization of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is not only related to the characters, places and places in the legend, but also reflects the obvious characteristics of agricultural areas. Cattle raising is an indispensable labor force in agricultural areas and the main "productivity" of farming. At the same time, the cow is also the main role in the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Nanyang Yellow Cattle is one of the top five thoroughbred cattle in China, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad. Nanyang cattle have a long history, and naturally there are many stories of "cattle": "Funiu Mountain", "Chang 'e Black Cattle" and "Priscilla Cattle Raising" ... among which Cowherd and Weaver Girl are the most wonderful. Today, Nanyang is a large agricultural area, and the agricultural field in Han Dynasty is also brilliant. Zhang Heng praised his hometown's "Nanfu", which is said to be "a hundred valleys, two wings and harmony". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Nanyang yellow cattle had entered the stage of house feeding and enclosure feeding. A native of Qin Xiang Bai Li Xi, he is good at raising cattle. In his down-and-out life, he lived by herding cattle in Qilingang, west of Nanyang. He once heard that Zhou Tianzi liked cattle, that is, raising cattle as a ladder to meet him, which was a much-told story. In the Han Dynasty, bullfighting became a popular activity in Nanyang at that time, and a large number of cattle images appeared in the world-famous Han Dynasty stone relief in Nanyang. It is not surprising that such a "cow" culture has produced a "cowherd" in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City.

Miao cowherd and weaver girl

In the Year of the Loong in October of the lunar calendar, the Miao people around Leigong Mountain celebrate the China New Year. The main activities in the festival include stepping on bronze drums, dancing on lusheng, horse racing and traveling. Among them, the scene of girls stepping on drums and boys playing lusheng to borrow flowers from girls is the most touching. Legend has it that these activities began on the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl returned to earth, and then gradually became a custom, passed down from generation to generation.

A long time ago, there was a young epigenetic in the foothills of Miao Ling. He lost his parents when he was a child, and people didn't know his name (in fact, he had a name called Sun Shouyi), because they saw that he lived alone with a buffalo, so they called him Cowherd.

Cowherd is honest, hardworking and kind, and everyone respects him. Cowherd's family is poor, and there is neither fertile land to cultivate nor forest to grow. Only with the buffalo, he worked for the rich man all the year round and had a hard time.

One day, Buffalo suddenly said to Cowherd, Cowherd, you are so old, it's time to get married.

Cowherd thought someone was talking to him. He looked around, but there was no one there. It seems to belong to a buffalo, but how can a cow talk?

Before the cowherd thought much, the buffalo spoke again and said, it's me talking to you. To tell you the truth, I am not an ordinary cow, but a fairy. I think you are hardworking and simple, and I'm here to help you get married and live a happy life.

The cowherd looked at the talking buffalo, and he was stunned. He remembered his lonely life and said to the cow with tears in his eyes: …… You know my situation. Who will marry me as a poor man like me?

Capable hands can create wealth, and hard work and courage are gifts of love. Buffalo said to Cowherd, and told him in detail the wonders of the fairy's descent to swim and the weaver girl's admiration for human life.

According to what the buffalo said, the cowherd silently came to a big lake on the bank of Qingshui River, waiting for a miracle. I saw one lake after another, sparkling, fish roaming, mandarin ducks playing, willow trees shaded by the lake, azaleas burning like fire ... In this intoxicating scenery, the cowherd hid under a bunch of flowers and waited anxiously.

In the afternoon, a miracle appeared: seven fairies descended from the sky and floated to the lake with feather fans in their hands. Take off your clothes and skirt and swim in the lake. They jump or tread, chasing entertainment, and the fairies are elegant and carefree, looking at the cowherd. It was a long time before he remembered the buffalo's words.

Cowherd walked gently to the place where fairies put their clothes, put away the clothes of the youngest fairy, and then sighed and sang a beautiful song.

Abandoning affectionate songs fascinates fairies. When they realized that the younger generation was singing, they all ran shyly to the lake, wearing skirts and trying to fly into the sky. But the weaver girl couldn't find her clothes, so she had to go back to the lake and hide her beautiful body by the lake.

At this time, the cowherd came out of the flowers and came to the fairies. When fairies saw strangers on the earth, they all shook their feather fans and flew into the sky. Only the Weaver Girl stood shyly in the lake.

Cowherd sang a travel song to Weaver Girl:

The fir trees on Miao Ling Mountain are the straightest.

Camus's mountain flowers are the most vivid.

The water in Qingshui River is the clearest.

Dear girl,

You are the most beautiful in the world,

The quiet lake was disturbed by you,

Happy Lusheng only wishes song for you,

My flying heart is tied by you,

Dear girl,

What do you suggest I do?

The Weaver Girl whispered that when people leave the disturbed lake, they will be quiet. Lusheng should sing about the love between people. If I disturb my brother's mind, my brother will be quiet when I leave. Please return my clothes and feather fan and let me go home.

Cowherd said: since you have a heart to come to earth, why do you want to go back? As long as my sister agrees, it is not difficult for me to return my sister's things. ...

Promise what? Weaver girl asked.

Marry me, said the Cowherd.

The weaver girl blushed and said, You are a man on earth, and I am a woman in the sky. Heaven and earth are far apart. How can the weaver girl in the sky marry the earth?

Cowherd said: Isn't the most precious gift between heaven and earth love?

Cowherd's simple and honest feelings made Weaver girl fondle admiringly, and the girl envied and missed the life on earth. She accepted Cowherd's love.

The cowherd was full of joy and jumped to get the clothes of the Weaver Girl. Then he thought: What if the Weaver Girl wore a skirt and flew away? He hesitated.

Weaver Girl saw through his mind and said to him, I can fly mainly by that feather fan. I can't fly without it. Just put the feather fan away, and I couldn't help flying with it!

The cowherd covered the feather fan in his heart and returned the dress to the Weaver Girl.

Weaver got dressed and left hand in hand with Cowherd. When I arrived in the village, I worshipped the old people in the village, became a recognized husband and wife, and then went to Cowherd's house.

At the door, the cowherd stopped. He was embarrassed. How can a broken house like this be scolded by a fairy without a lid?

Knowing Cowherd's difficulties, the Weaver Girl comforted him and said, Go into the house. The hut is not ugly. It is good to shelter from the wind and rain. As for the clothes and quilts, I have already knitted them, so you don't have to worry.

Cowherd sighed and led the Weaver Girl into the hut. Wow! I saw a red embroidered quilt, colorful clothes and curtains, bamboo chairs and beads, and cigarettes wrapped around it ... Cowherd was shocked! Hold the hand of Weaver Girl for a long time, and deeply thank her for her exquisite craftsmanship.

Time flies, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle. Soon, they gave birth to their first child. The son is naive, lively and clever. Cowherd came back from a hard day in the mountains and was very happy to see the lively and lovely children.

The Weaver Girl couldn't bear Cowherd to come in the wind all the year round and work hard in the rain, so she had to change jobs with him. One day, the weaver girl said to the cowherd; It's hard enough for you to work outside alone. Today, you take care of the children at home, and I will do outdoor work.

Cowherd also wanted to play with the baby, so he agreed. The child is used to his mother, where will his father take the doll? The child began to cry, and there was no toy to coax. The cowherd remembered the feather fan hidden on the roof beam and went up to get it for the child. The baby is very happy.

A few days later, the cowherd went up to work, and the weaver girl took care of the children at home. The little guy just kept crying, which made his mother very helpless. The child used to be very good. Why are you so noisy today? Weaver girl doesn't know why.

While crying, the child raised his little hand and pointed to the beam. What will be on the balance beam? Weaver went upstairs to look for it. Ah! It's my feather fan! Seeing her flying wings, Weaver Girl's mood is complicated. Happy love life makes them forget the time. Too much, too fast. It has been many days since I left the Heavenly Palace. It's time to go back. If I don't go back, violent heaven will bring disaster to the world. The weaver girl talks to herself. However, how can you be willing to leave your husband, children and everything on earth? However, in order to prevent all this from being destroyed by God, Weaver decided to go back to her family.

She held the child in her arms with tears in her eyes and said, forgive me, my baby, mom is going back to grandma's house. You should listen to your father, practice martial arts and study work. God is a grumpy man, and he opposes my coming to earth. If your father and son can subdue him, we can be reunited.

The child seems to understand his mother's feelings. He didn't cry or make trouble, but looked at his mother with wide eyes. The weaver girl held the doll, kissed it again and again, and said it again and again. Finally, she put the doll in the cradle, then shook her feather fan and flew to the cowherd's farming place to say goodbye to her dear husband.

Thank you, dear brother,

Thank you for all your love;

Our love is like the rushing Qingshui River.

Pure, lingering, eternal.

I'm leaving.-Go back to my parents' house,

Lonely sisters want me to comfort them,

Only when God sees me can I avoid disaster.

Goodbye, dear brother,

I had the heart to disappoint your love,

Did I leave that baby in cold blood,

Although the sky has been on the ground for several years,

But on hearing the shuttle, China became angry!

May you create a miracle on earth,

May you conquer Tianshan Tianhe.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl Meeting Day,

When bad weather comes.

The Weaver Maid spins and sings on the Cowherd's head. After singing, she flew higher and higher and finally disappeared into the blue sky. Cowherd put up an awning in his hand and looked up at his wife who was rising far away. He was heartbroken and remembered that there were children at home, so he hurried home.

As the saying goes, "A man without a wife is like a house without beams." Without the Weaver Girl, Cowherd turned everything upside down. If a husband without a wife is boring, then a doll without a mother is miserable. Cowherd wants to take Weaver Girl back, but how can the blue sky in Wan Li get there? He lingered all day, sighing at the sky.

All this was seen by the buffalo. One day, the buffalo said to the cowherd, "What's the matter? As the saying goes, there are high cliffs on the road of love, and a strong will can cross Qian Shan. Are you scared by difficulties again? " Cowherd said, "My friend, you can see the fire of love burning me, but I have no wings and can't fly!" " ""It's not difficult, "the buffalo said to the cowherd." I can take you to the sky. The question is, how do you get into the Guanghan Palace to meet the Weaver Girl, and how do you defeat the mortal god? "There will be a road in the sky," Cowherd jumped up happily. He asked Buffalo to see him and the children off. They hoped their mother would get up soon. Buffalo put Cowherd and his son on their backs and told them, "Don't be afraid of any risks, and come down when you reach your destination. "Then jump into the rushing Qingshui River and swim eastward until the East China Sea at sunrise, and leap to the edge of the Tiangong by the strong wind and fog on the waves." "Here we are," Buffalo said. "You worked hard. I will go back to earth and wait for the good news. "

The buffalo left, and the cowherd walked around the Heavenly Palace with his child on his back. No door, no one can enter the palace, and no one can ask. What shall we do? He remembered the Lusheng that he always carried with him, and he blew a "Li"? The sweet lusheng music reached the palace, and all the disturbed fairies ran to the window to see it.

The weaver girl who is embroidering ribbons also looks out of the window with her sisters. "Ah, it's the cowherd and the children!" The Weaver Girl was very excited. She flew out and welcomed them into the palace.

When fairies hear tourists from all over the world, they all come to watch the fun. Tianmu was happy to see his son-in-law and grandson, and the more he looked at it, the more he wanted to see it. Only God's attitude is indifferent. He thinks it is shameful for angels to marry earthly farmers. It is shameful for this mortal to come to heaven and live a husband-and-wife life with Weaver Girl. All kinds of tricks churn in God's heart, which will harm the Cowherd.

Soon, God said to the heavenly queen, "You are crazy, our weaver girl is crazy. What kind of husband do you want? I'll work all day. I smell like dust. Try to get rid of him! "

Tianmu said, "You are an old fool. What happened to Cowherd? He is both handsome and diligent. What is not worthy of our weaver girl? Don't you see how much they love each other? Send it away if you want. The Cowherd is here to see the Weaver Girl, and the Weaver Girl is also very nostalgic for the world ... "

God thought: what a woman's experience! "The more the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more interesting it is." It's true. Don't discuss with her, find a way by yourself! Anyway, you can't climb relatives with mortals, but you must break them up.

God racked his brains and came up with many tricks to persecute Cowherd. Once, he said to the cowherd, "You have been here for a long time. You should go out and see this place. I'll take you to catch up tomorrow. The field is very lively! "

In the evening, the Cowherd told the Weaver Girl about it. Knowing that this was a trick to make the Cowherd get lost and never come back, the Weaver Girl told the Cowherd how to deal with it.

At dawn, the cowherd set off with the weather. Wherever there is a fork in the road, he will leave a feather. No one can count how many forks there are.

In the busy market, people are crowded and the weather is crowded in crowded places. Instead of looking for Cowherd, he sneaked home alone and let everyone hold a banquet to celebrate his return from the scene.

Cowherd saw that God had gone home first. He swam around the field enough and came back the same way. At every fork in the road, a rooster reported to him, and he returned to Weaver smoothly.

God was sad to see the Cowherd come back, but on the surface he said hypocritically, "There were many people on the field, so I came back: I wish you had come back." This is a banquet for you, please ... please. "

Cowherd is rude and has a good meal.

I didn't throw the cowherd away with one stroke, but God thought of other bad ideas. Even in spring and summer, it is a logging season that is convenient for peeling bark. God wants Cowherd to cut Chinese fir with him.

The cowherd asked the Weaver Girl what to do. The Weaver Girl wrapped a piece of cloth around his head and said, "It will be useful then."

The next day, Cowherd and God came to the mountain and found a tall and big fir tree. God said to the Cowherd, "Let's peel the fir tree first, so that it is easy to peel without damaging the bark. You are young and strong, climb up the tree and peel it. I will take a ladder to peel off a section and then cut it. "

Cowherd followed suit and climbed to the tree to peel the bark. It was not until dark that the weather peeled off the skin with a ladder.

God peeled off a layer of bark, pulled down the ladder and slipped home first. Cowherd can't get down the tree, because the newly peeled fir tree is too slippery to catch, and the tree is too big to catch. Cowherd knows that God wants him to fall dead or starve to death. The cowherd remembered the cloth that the Weaver Girl gave him, so he tied one end to a branch, went down to the ground along the cloth, and then returned to the Weaver Girl's house in the Heavenly Palace.

God is angry and helpless. Cowherd saw that this cloth was very useful, so he kept wrapping it around his head. It is said that Baotou Pa of Miao nationality was handed down from then on.

Peeling the bark can't cure the cowherd. God has come up with a more poisonous way. He asked the cowherd to burn the mountain fence with him, hoping to kill him with fire.

Cowherd asked Weaver what to do. Weaver asked the cowherd to catch a big crab and put it in the water hyacinth. Let him take a gourd and a machete and go up the mountain with God.

When the mountain fence was cut down, God told the cowherd to burn from top to bottom on the hillside. When the Cowherd walked halfway up the mountain, the demon burned it from the foot of the mountain, hoping to burn the Cowherd to ashes with a raging fire.

Cowherd was in no hurry, first lit a fire by himself, then put the crab from the gourd and ordered it to dig the pond quickly; Cowherd jumped into the pool and watched the fire go out before going back.

God was very angry when he saw Cowherd coming home safely again, but he knew the skill of ordinary people on the ground and could not bully him, so he had to pretend to be very attentive to Cowherd.

Although the weather is attentive to the cowherd, it is "the weasel pays New Year's greetings to the chicken-uneasy and kind." Whenever the Cowherd proposed to bring the Weaver Girl back to earth, the gods always prevaricated, spread rumors and alienated the feelings of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but all failed. Over time, the love between the cowherd and the weaver girl also deepened. Soon, their beautiful daughter was born in the sky.

God held a sumptuous banquet, saying it was to celebrate the birth of granddaughter and give them a farewell dinner-God allowed the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to return to the world. Everyone raised their glasses and drank, singing and laughing, and it was very lively.

Halfway through the wine, God took a hip flask and drank a big bowl of rice wine, holding it in front of the Cowherd and asking him to raise his glass.

Cowherd took the wine bowl and gulped it down. Then I was dizzy and wobbly, and finally fell on the table: Cowherd is dead! Ah, it's hard to prevent a willing person from being poisoned on a festive day! It turned out that God had poisoned the wine.

Poisonous wine killed my husband, surprised the guests at the table, lost my husband in joy, and wept bitterly at the Weaver Girl. God still pretends to be kind and wants to cremate the cowherd. The Weaver Girl insisted on going to the funeral according to the custom of the world, but God couldn't, so she agreed.

The weaver girl put the cowherd in a Chinese fir coffin, uncovered it, put a big cock in front of the coffin, and then put the coffin in the river and let it drift freely. The rooster followed the instructions of the Weaver Girl, "Oh! Oh! Oh! " Sing happily: "Brothers, come and get the medicine!" Brothers, come and get the medicine! "

The flower snake heard this and flew to suck the cowherd's poison; Hearing this, the fish jumped into the coffin and sucked the cowherd's poison. When the poison is exhausted, the cowherd wakes up and the cowherd lives. It's just that the snake's teeth were poisoned and the fish gall became bitter.

The Cowherd returned to the home of the Weaver Maid in the Heavenly Palace. He said to God, "All your plans have failed. You should let me take the Weaver Girl away, right? "

This time, the cruel God showed his true colors. He was fierce, bared his teeth and pounced on the cowherd.

Just then, Cowherd's son raised his slingshot, one shot hit God's left eye, and the other shot hit God's right eye, cracking the old stubborn God's eyes and groaning. Legend has it that God's broken eyes turned into stars all over the sky. The snoring turned into rumbling thunder.

God gave in and there was nothing he could do. He really shot himself in the foot, hurt others from the heart, and finally hurt himself! Everything was arranged by Tianmu, who promised the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to return to the world. But, how to get back? Only the weaver girl can fly, and the buffalo has already returned to the ground. Jumping from the sky to that place is a thousand pieces! The sisters of the Weaver Girl came up with an idea: make a rope with money and silver thread and tie it around the ear of the big bronze drum. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl family sat in the bronze drum, reached the ground, informed the Weaver Girl in the sky with the drum, and then put down the rope.

In this way, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl returned to the world and lived a happy life.

The bison learned that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were going back to Earth and hurried to meet them. It looked at the sky with its head held high and stood happily until. Legend has it that the "Niutou Mountain" on the banks of Qingshui River was changed by the magical cow of Cowherd.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl return to the fields, which is the sunny season after the autumn harvest. They knocked on the bronze drums and blew the lusheng, telling everyone up and down:

Woo-hoo-hoo,

Cowherd and Weaver Girl went home;

It's ... it's ... yeah,

The beauty on earth is better than the sky.

The sound of bronze drums that shook the earth and the lusheng music that echoed in space attracted villagers from all directions, who danced with the sound of drums and bamboo songs.

Later, people celebrated the Spring Festival at this time every time, and it was enjoyable, in recognition of people's conquest of nature and celebration of agricultural harvest. Bronze drums and Arundo donax have become the main musical instruments for the New Year.

Nowadays, during the Spring Festival, girls wear their own embroidered flowers and set foot on bronze drums, and boys play lusheng to borrow flowers from girls to offer Buddha. It is said that the embroidery skills of Miao girls are all handed down by the weaver girl, so they are particularly delicate and beautiful. It is also said that the daughter of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was born in the Heavenly Palace, so all the Miao girls in Qingshuihe Valley are as beautiful as flowers.