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What is the legend of getting married under the old moon?

It was in the Tang Dynasty in China, and there was a man named Wei Gu. On one occasion, he traveled to Song Cheng and lived in Nandian. Song Cheng in the Tang Dynasty is now Shangqiu.

That night, Wei Gu was wandering in the street and saw an old man sitting on the floor in the moonlight, turning over a big, thick book with a big cloth bag full of red ropes beside him.

Wei Gu went over and asked him curiously, "Uncle, what book are you reading?"

The old man replied, "This is a book that records the marriage of men and women in the world."

Hearing this, Wei Gu became more curious and then asked, "What's the red rope in your bag for?"

The old man smiled and said to Wei Gu, "These red ropes are used to tie husband and wife's feet. Whether men and women are enemies or far away, as long as I tie these red ropes to their feet, they will make up and form a husband and wife. "

Hearing this, Wei Gu naturally didn't believe it, thinking that the old man was joking with him, but he was still full of curiosity about this strange old man. When he wanted to ask him some more questions, the old man had stood up and walked to the rice market with his books and schoolbags. Wei Gu followed him.

When they arrived at the rice market, they saw a blind woman and a little girl about 3 years old coming face to face. The old man said to Wei Gu, "The little girl in this blind girl's hand is your future wife."

Wei Gu was very angry and thought that the old man was joking with him on purpose, so he asked the domestic slave to kill the little girl to see if he would become his wife in the future. The domestic slave ran forward, stabbed the girl and ran away at once. When Gu Wei went to settle accounts with the old man again, he was gone.

Time flies, 14 years have passed. At this time, Wei Gu has found a satisfactory object and is about to get married. The other party is the apple of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou. He is beautiful, but he has a scar on his forehead. Wei Gu felt very strange, so he asked his father-in-law, "Why is there a scar between her eyebrows?"

After hearing this, Xiangzhou secretariat said, "It's irritating. Song Cheng/KLOC-One day 0/4 years ago, nanny Chen carried her through the rice market. A fanatic stabbed her for no reason. Fortunately, her life was not in danger, leaving only this scar. What a great misfortune! "

Wei Gu listen, paused. /kloc-The past events of 0/4 years ago quickly came to his mind. He thought, is she the little girl who ordered the servant to assassinate her? So he asked nervously, "Is that nanny blind?"

Wang Tai saw the son-in-law face change and asked him strangely. He asked him, "Yes, she is blind, but how do you know?"

After Wei Gu confirmed this, he was really surprised. He can't answer at the moment. It took a long time to calm down, and then he told the whole story about 14 years ago when he met the old man under the moon in Song Cheng.

Wang Tai was also surprised.

Wei Gu realized that what the old man said under the moon was not a joke. Their marriage was really decided by heaven.

After marriage, Wei Gu and his wife cherish this marriage more and live a loving life.

This incident later spread to Song Cheng. In order to commemorate the appearance of the old man under the moon, the local people changed Nandian into an "engagement shop".

Because of the spread of this story, people think that the marriage between men and women is tied by the old man under the moon with a red rope, so later generations call the matchmaker "the old man under the moon" or "the old man under the moon" for short.

Under the moon, the old people tied together with red ropes to decide the marriage between men and women, which embodies the fatalism concept of marriage in Tang Dynasty and is one of the manifestations of the concept of destiny in Tang Dynasty. Tang people believe that people's destiny can't be decided and changed by themselves. As the saying goes, "everything in the world is predetermined", "what happens to people is determined by fate" and "what people are born is determined by fate".

Of course, this preconceived idea of the Tang people is also manifested in marriage and love. "If you get married, your life will be fixed and you can't ask for it." "The way of lovers is also fate."

The appearance of the image of Yue Lao is precisely the artistry and visualization of this view of fate in marriage and love. There are similar images in novels of the Tang Dynasty. For example, a scholar once recorded in Guang Yi Ji Yan Geng that everyone saw his extraordinary vision, saying that Geng brought a pot of wine from the outside, and everyone returned to the guest first, but the guest didn't dare to accept it, so he returned, because of acacia. We are full of wine and food, but we share the same room. In the middle of the night, the two greeted each other and saluted each other. The guest replied, "I'm not a native, I'm Cao Er here. The local government ordered marriage in Hebei, which stumped men and women. " Ren Xu looked at his clothes and saw the rope in the bag, so he didn't believe it.

Here, Cao Di, who calls himself a "guest", that is, "the main wedding in Hebei", also uses the rope in his bag to "trip men's and women's feet" to decide the marriage of men and women all over the world. It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, it was a popular concept to decide before marriage to take charge of the underworld. Men and women in the world can become husband and wife because underworld officials are bound by ropes, which is the fate of the world.

But more poetically, the old man tied a rope under the moon to define the image of marriage, so it spread more widely and became a reality, and the old man under the moon became a household name among the people.