The hometown of cowherd and weaver girl is exquisite.

The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl and Tanabata originated from the astrological theory. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were records of "Cowherd" and "Weaver Girl" in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong. Here, the two stars, Weaver Girl and Morning Glory, only lead to a metaphorical association as natural star images, and there is no story. At this time, as a cultural factor, they began to enter the literary system. It is this "factor" that has prepared the potential cultural conditions for the emergence of this legend. Wang Yi's Songs of Chu Zhang Sentences (Volume 17) Shouzhi: "Hold up the evil spirits hidden in heaven and shoot traitors with the arc of heaven." Expressed the theory of marriage between cowherd and weaver girl.

The Cowherd and the Weaver Maid in the Western Han Dynasty evolved into touching myths and legends. In the third year of Yuanshou (BC120th year), Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty conquered southwest countries, trained navies and dug Kunming Pool. On the east and west sides of Chi Pan, there are stone statues of Cowherd and Weaver Maid across the river. There is a sentence in Ban Gu's "Xi Du Fu": "Facing the Kunming Pool, the left morning glory and the right weaving girl are like a vast sea of clouds." Li Shan quoted the Book of Han Palace Que as saying: "There are two stone men in Kunming Pool, like cows and weaver girls." The wonderful legend of the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl came to the world from heaven, and it has been widely circulated in China since then.

With the passage of time, the Weaver Maid and the Morning Glory were passed down as two gods, and the stone statue of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid in Chi Pan, Kunming was also honored as the "God of the Stone Master" and "God of the Shiva" by the local people. As time went on, people began to be superstitious about stone statues and began to worship them. 14 (AD 798) Zhenyuan, Tang Dezong, put on record the repair of the Weaver Girl Temple, and the incense has been enduring for thousands of years.

The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl in Chang 'an District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province was listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list on 20 10.

There are two tall stone statues in Nanfeng Village, Doumen Town, Chang 'an District, Xi 'an. The locals call them "Shipo" and "Shi Ye". According to reports, these two stone statues are more than 2 100 years ago.

In the third year of founding ceremony, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (BC120th year), officials were sent to Kunming Pool, which was located in Chi Pan, Kunming at the moment, commonly known as "Shi Ye Shipo". Now the Cowherd is in the north of Changjiazhuang Village, Doumen Town, Chang 'an District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province, and the Weaver Girl is in the cotton mill of Doumen Town, about 3 kilometers away.

In the year of 14 (AD 798), Zhenyuan, Tang Dezong, where the "Shi Ye Temple" and "Shipo Temple" were built. Incense has been burning for thousands of years, and it still retains the large-scale folk cultural activities of sacrificing cowherd and weaver girl on Tanabata.

"Shipo Temple", also known as "Zhinv Temple". On the wall outside the temple gate, there is a piece of red paper, which records the merits and donations of the villagers to build this temple.

When you step into the temple, you can see the stone statue of the Weaver Maid and the merit box. The stone statue is neatly dressed. If you look closely, you can find that its shape and lines are so rough that someone asks, "Is this a barren woman or a stone owner?"

On the seventeenth day of the first month and the seventh day of July every year, there are a sea of people and incense is very prosperous here. Everyone wants to go to school, get married and survive, which is very effective.

According to a textual research article, "The Legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl" originated in Doumen Town, Chang 'an District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province. Two large-scale activities (the 16th and 17th of the first month) gradually took shape in the local area. Meeting on the seventh day of July), and the practice of going to the temple on the first and fifteenth day of each month. As we all know, the Central Plains is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, and the folk culture of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated in the earliest developed area of farming civilization on the land of China. Farming civilization was first formed in Songshan area of Central Plains with superior climate and geographical conditions. Rushui and Mengping Plain at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain are the earliest areas where our ancestors developed agricultural production, and also the most developed areas of agricultural civilization during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin, Han and Jin Dynasties. Lushan County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, formerly known as Zhen, was established in Xia and Shang Dynasties. It has a long history. Several local chronicles of Lushan County, including the earliest Ming Jiajing's "Lushan County Records" and the place names of cities, counties and townships, all recorded the legendary stories of the place names of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The Toponymic Records of Pingdingshan City, Lushan County and Xinji Township of Lushan County (under the jurisdiction of Lufeng Mountain) contains: "In ancient times, there was a young man named Sun, who kept his righteousness simple and often herded cattle on Lushan Slope, and his common name was Cowherd. One day, the jade emperor's nine daughters took a bath in the broken root pool of Lushan Mountain, and Sun Shouyi took the clothes of the nine sisters (that is, the weaver girl) and married the cowherd. " Cowherd's descendants are Sun Shi villagers from Sunyi Village in the south foot of Lufeng Mountain. 80% of the villagers in this village are surnamed Sun, and they all respect Cowherd as their ancestors, respect Weaver Maid as Jiugu or Jiugu Milk and Laozu Milk, and "God" as "God Grandpa".

Around Lufeng Mountain (also known as Lushan Mountain and Lushan Slope), there are more than ten relics about the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Ming Jiajing's Lushan County Annals is the earliest extant Lushan County Annals. Chi Zi: "Cowherd Cave, in the lower part of ruiyun temple, facing south, stands the Cowherd God ... nine girls (the legendary Weaver Girl is the ninth daughter of the Jade Emperor) pool, under the Lushan Mountain in the northeast of the county, there are nine girls and the Longwang Temple on the pool." In the ruiyun temple at the top of Lufeng Mountain, there is a Cowherd and Weaver Maid Hall, in which colorful family portraits and murals of Cowherd and Weaver Maid are molded. Ruiyun temple is the south gate of heaven. It is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are in heaven. The Cowherd Cave in Shannan is said to be the place where Cowherd lives and marries Weaver Maid. Seven meters in front of the cave, there is a stone wall hanging on the wall, which is said to be the dresser of Weaver Girl. In March 2008, Lushan County Institute of Cultural Relics excavated Niulang Cave and found that the entrance was made of Han bricks. Black porcelain bowls and jars in the Tang and Song Dynasties, porcelain lamps, copper box ornaments and copper coins in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties have also been unearthed, which shows that Lushan people have been offering sacrifices to Cowherd for a long time.

There is a Niulang grave 800 meters southwest of Niulang Cave, and its descendants often worship their ancestors here. At the ridge of the western slope, there is a huge white stone platform with a height of 5 meters and a width of 5 meters, which is called the bright stone platform or the bright sound platform. According to legend, it is the place where the cowherd and the weaver girl sing and dance. Not far from Liangshitai, there is Jiunvtan, with an area of about 40 square meters. The water in the pool is clear, and the four seasons are not dry. It is said that it is a place where the Weaver Maid and sisters take a bath, and it is also a place where local people pray for rain and have children. There are three halls next to the pool, one is for the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, the other is for the Jade Emperor's nine daughters, and the other is the Lingxiao Hall for nine girls, who are weavers here. The people in front of the temple spontaneously erected a monument, which is the "female monument of the Nine Goddess of the Milky Way in Nantianmen", where incense is strong, especially on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Judging from the inheritance of the folk culture of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Lushan still retains unique and simple folk customs and folk songs. In Sunyi Village, where the descendants of Cowherd are located, there are three Sun Shrine in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are dedicated to Cowherd and Weaver Girl, their children and cows. Sun Shrine mainly worships ancestors on the Lunar New Year's Laba, Spring Festival, the second day of February and the seventh day of July. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, we should invite ancestors from Niulang Cave and Jiunv Lingxiao Hall, and then bid farewell. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, they sing songs, sprinkle wine, offer food, etc. These folk customs are also consistent with the folk cultural heritage of the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

Lushan Mountain still retains the custom of worshipping cows and regards cows as a member of the family. There are more than 40 place names with the word "Niu" in Lushan Mountain. The bull market in Lushan Mountain is also famous. The annual Tanabata Temple Fair was originally located in Sunyi Village, the hometown of Cowherd (now moved to Xinji Street, where the township government is located), which is not only the most lively gathering in Lushan Mountain in summer, but also the best evidence that the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Lushan Mountain. Lushan Mountain has a history of planting tussah and raising silkworms. It is said that the silk weaving technique in Lushan Mountain was taught by the Weaver Maid after she came down to earth. Lushan Silk is known as the "Weaver Girl" and "Fairy Weaver Girl" and won the gold medal in the 19 14 World Expo. Sericulture and silk weaving are still one of the main economic incomes of people in Lushan area. Lushan people also like to plant "Nine Girls Flowers". Nine girls' flowers, that is, rape flowers, are said to be weaver girls falling from the sky, making people spend the spring drought. Lushan people still grow grapes in the yard. It is said that when cowherd and weaver girl meet at Qixi Bridge, people can hide under the grape trellis and eavesdrop on their whispers. Yanya Township, Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, has Zhinv Cave and Niulang Temple, which were built in the Tang Dynasty. The two are far away from each other across the Yi River, and the landscape pattern on both sides of the river echoes the "Altair-Galaxy-Vega" in the sky from a distance, with striking similarities, forming a unique landscape of harmony between heaven and earth and magic of heaven and earth. Niulang Temple was originally a two-story attic building. After many renovations, it has begun to take shape, with three halls, blue bricks and green tiles, painted arches and magnificent buildings. There are statues of cowherd and their children in the main hall of the temple, and there is a statue of Taurus next to it. In the courtyard, the cypresses are towering, quiet and chic.

The village next to Niulang Temple is called Niulang Guanzhuang. Most people in the village are surnamed Sun, just like Cowherd (Sun Shouyi). This village existed in the Ming Dynasty. The villagers claimed to be the descendants of Cowherd and passed on the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl from generation to generation. Up to now, it still follows the custom of sericulture, weaving and taking double seven waters. Every Tanabata, the women in Niulang Guanzhuang will happily fold out gold ingots from paper and offer them to the Weaver Girl Cave.

There used to be many stone tablets on Daxian Mountain in Yanyan Township, Yiyuan County, but only a few of them were intact because they had been destroyed, but all the contents engraved on the stone tablets were more or less related to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. There is a stone tablet, The Story of the Weaver Girl Cave, which was erected in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1579). Inscription records: "Tang Zhiyun people crossed the valley and heard the sound of sucking the machine in the cave, hence the name of the Weaver Girl", which is the origin of the Weaver Girl. It means that in the Tang Dynasty, someone passed by and heard the sound of a tying machine in the cave, thinking that the weaver girl was weaving, so this fairy cave of the weaver girl was built. The second sentence of the inscription-"Niugong was built on the other side, so it looks like a natural elephant." Heshun county, Shanxi Province is a small mountain county located at the top of Taihang Mountain, which has long occupied a place in the minds of China people because of a beautiful folklore of Han nationality. Previously, heshun county was named "the hometown of cowherd and weaver girl culture in China" by China People's Association, and was officially announced by the State Council as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. This spring, it was once again named as "the first batch of national traditional festivals (Qixi) demonstration protection sites in Shanxi Province" by the Shanxi Provincial Department of Culture.

In Heshun local countryside, there are many ancient place names and scenic names related to the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Such as Niulang Cave, Jinniu Cave, Magpie Mountain, Nantianmen, Tianhetan and other place names, the beautiful stories are all told by local people.

The legend and culture of heshun county Cowherd and Weaver Girl are precious human resources with high cultural and economic values. Smart Heshun people are relying on unique cultural resources to build cultural brands, enhance the overall image here and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the economy and society.

Heshun county speeds up the rescue, development and utilization of traditional cultural resources, and sings the cultural brand of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". The newly-edited Jinju "Queqiao Club", starring the famous Jinju "Queqiao Club" in the provincial capital, began to perform at Shanxi Performing Arts Center tonight. In Heshun urban and rural areas, "Folk Paper-cutting Exhibition", "Folk Cloth Painting Exhibition of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Folk Crafts Exhibition" were held one after another, and local craftsmen showed a number of human history, allusions and legends and folk arts such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Virgin Mary, Fengtai Opera, Five-grain Painting, Paper-cutting and Embroidery.

Tanabata comes from the fairy tale of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Heshun county in Jinzhong is an important area (not the only area) where the romantic love story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl takes place and develops, and it is also an important area with typical significance for the inheritance and development of Qixi custom. South Tianchi and Niulangyu in heshun county are less than 10 square kilometers, so far there are as many as 20 natural and human landscapes and scenery related to the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Judging from the place names, Tianheliang, Niulangyu, Nantianchi and Moziyu (Maoyu) are the place names or village names recorded in local chronicles for a long time, while the rest of the place names and related scenery names are popular among Han people. Nowadays, we can see Niulanggou, Niulangdong, Tianhe Lake, Niulang Temple, Zhinv Temple, Nantianmen, Jinniu Cave, Laoniukou, Niutoushan, Acacia Back, Magpie Mountain, etc., as well as the Queen Mother Temple, Li Tianwang Tower and Moshan Stone, all of which have been destroyed without a trace. The villagers handed down the vivid story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the custom activities in Chinese Valentine's Day from generation to generation, and their overall environment was in harmony with the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. After many field visits by relevant experts, in June 5438+February 65438+March 2006, China Folk Literature and Art Association was officially named Heshun as "the hometown of cowherd and weaver girl culture in China". On June 7th, 2008, the State Council listed heshun county's "Love Legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list with the document of Guofa (2008) 19.

From this story, the Han people in Shanxi used to call Valentine's Day in China "Tianhe Match". According to historical records, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the Han nationality in Shanxi still kept the custom of painting to celebrate festivals. People tied a pair of young men and women with branches and other things in the streets to show that the cowherd and the weaver girl met, and presented fruits, peaches and plums in front of the portrait to show their congratulations.

On Valentine's Day in China, the daughter-in-law of a popular Han girl asked the Weaver Girl for advice, which was called "pleasing". The Han nationality in southern Shaanxi used to weave a bridge with new wheat straw, and the accessories were placed on the desk, with images of cowherd, weaver girl, old cow, boys and girls, magpie and so on. Or use colored paper to cut out the scenery above and stick it on the wall. After praying to the Weaver Girl, taking seven embroidery needles in parallel and passing a colored thread through seven pinholes at one time is a clever begging. In Quwo County, it is popular for boys and girls to throw starlight into the water for cleverness. Han people in northern Shanxi used to bask in a basin of water in the yard during the day to let the dust fall. At night, a film formed on the surface of the basin. The girl's daughter-in-law put the embroidery needle on the water after painting it with oil, which made everyone think it was clever to make the needle float on the water. In some places in northwestern Shanxi, people put bean sprouts in pots of water. After water is refracted in the sun, the underwater reflection will take on various shapes, such as centipede or water snake, pig, dog or chicken and duck. The richer the reflection, the more real it means. Girls in Changzhi want to catch a spinning spider in a box the day before Tanabata, and observe the density of its web the next day. The denser the net, the more begging.

In Shanxi, boys should also ask Cowherd for cultivation skills on Tanabata. In some places in the south of Shanxi, on Qixi Festival, a young man built a small scene of a hut with a piece of wood or slate, and planted millet seedlings in the field next to the house, which was called "grain board". In Jinzhong and the northern part of Shanxi, wheat or beans germinate in water, while on Tanabata, the buds are wrapped in colored lines, which is called "planting". The shepherd boy in northwest Shanxi wants to weave a wreath for the cow, which is called "Celebrating the birthday of the old cow".

There was a lot of rain around Tanabata in Shanxi. The Han people regarded Tanabata as a "rainy day", saying that the weaver girl would be a cowherd when crossing the river, and could not help but burst into tears. Tears fall on the ground, this is rain. So there is a proverb "Don't go out on July 7th, go out in the rain". On this day, girls have the custom of beating impatiens to dye their nails red. It is said that old people's eyes are clear and they are not dizzy when they see them. In the old days, Shanxi paid attention to the rice price predicted by Tianhe on Tanabata. On Tanabata, when the Tianhe River is dark, the price of rice rises, and when the Tianhe River is bright, the price of rice is cheap. Han people once said that "Tianhe rice is expensive and Taiyi is healthy". On Valentine's Day in modern China, the Han people in Shanxi have paid less attention to it, but some begging activities are still popular among girls and daughter-in-law. Many places still keep the habit of making "smart food", adding sugar and oil to white flour or cake powder to make various foods; In other places, every family eats watermelons and engraves patterns on them, which are called "flower melons". These habits are the remains of Qixi custom. Yunxi's "Cloud" interprets the place names in the dictionary. "Meteor" is a meteorite, which means a falling meteor. "West" is the direction, and Vega is on the west bank of the Milky Way. The word "Yunxi" means that the weaver girl in the sky landed in Yunxi, and the weaver girl and the cowherd fell in love. The Tianhe River in Yunxi is not only consistent with the Tianhe River in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but also closely related to the natural landform and human landscape of the Tianhe River Basin. In Tianhe Valley, there is a female-like rock called "Shi Yuyan" on Shimenwan Mountain in the southeast of Yunxi County, and a male-like rock called "Shi Gonggong" on Gaihua Mountain in the northwest.

For generations, Yunxi people believed that these two stones were the embodiment of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. In the middle of the upper reaches of the Tianhe River, there is a huge stone called "Golden Hairpin Stone", which is said to be the golden hair pin fossil left here by the Queen Mother when she pulled the hair pin and rowed the Tianhe River. There is also a hanging drum park in the west of Yunxi County, which is said to be the stone of The goddess patching the sky, and it is also said to be the fairy stone where the Weaver Maid put her clothes when she came down to take a shower. To the east of Tianhe, there is a Niangniang Mountain with an altitude of 1069 meters. The statue of the Queen Mother is enshrined in the Niangniang Temple at the top of the mountain. There is a nun named "Tianchi Temple" on Shitizi Mountain in the northeast of Hangguguan. In the past, this was a place full of incense. There is a temple on one side, a woman on the other, and a man on the other. After textual research, it was built by simple Yunxi people to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. "I want to eat rice in Zhuxi and marry my daughter-in-law to Yunxi", which is the hometown of beautiful women. The beauty, kindness and dexterity of Yunxi women are recognized by people. Baotianman Funiu Mountain, Nanyang City, Henan Province, is an outstanding place. Here, the ancient trees are towering, the birds and animals are swarming, the peaks in the south foot of the stone man are beautiful, and the vegetation is lush. The Xixia Longtangou Waterfall Group is a famous tourist attraction with unique scenery. According to legend, Cowherd met and fell in love with Weaver Girl here under the guidance of a thousand-year-old cow, and lived a harmonious and sweet life from then on. After they gave birth to two children, the Queen Mother flew into a rage when she learned that the Weaver Girl had come down to earth. She sent heavenly soldiers to catch the Weaver Girl, and the Cowherd burst into tears. But the old cow asked the cowherd to put on his psychic cowhide and chase after him. The cowherd reluctantly did so, and then went to heaven to find the Weaver Girl. In order to commemorate this millennium cow with humanity, the mountain where Niulang once lived is called Funiu Mountain.

Map of the hometown of Cowherd and Weaver Girl

In Lihe Township, Wancheng District, 20 miles south of Wancheng, there is a natural village called Niulangzhuang. The villagers said that the legendary Cowherd was from their village, a young man named Sun Ruyi. In Niulang Village, the stone tablet of the "Tomb of the God Cow" was excavated, and then the statue of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid was built in the village, which was full of incense on the seventh day of July.

Shenniuzhong

Niujia house handed down from generation to generation in Niulang Village is said to be the former residence of Niulang.

Niujiazhai site

The drinking pit handed down from generation to generation in Niulangzhuang is said to be the place where Niulangzhuang used to drink water. Whether in the year of drought or flood, the pit has always been in this state.

Yinniukeng

The picture below shows the location of the legendary Magpie Bridge. It is said that this bridge used to be a stone bridge, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and later commemorated by a monument.

Queqiao monument

Because after the separation of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Shi Wa Village, the birthplace of the legendary Weaver Girl, still retains the custom of not marrying the Cowherd Village.

As for the prototype of the characters, relevant people pointed out that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are all mortals, and they are authentic Nanyang people. Cowherd is from Sangzhuang, twenty miles west of Nanyang City, and Weaver Girl is from Shi Wa Village, twenty miles south of Nanyang City. The Weaver Girl eloped and married the Cowherd. The Weaver Girl's family found out and separated them. Cowherd looked for his wife and came to live near Shi Wa Village. Then he founded Cowherd Village.

Now, on the seventh day of July every year, Niulangzhuang not only inherits the customs of "frying the fruit properly", "begging for cleverness" and "offering sacrifices", but also on this morning, the old man will kill the chicken for fear that it will announce the dawn in advance and shorten the meeting time of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Every year around the seventh day of July, Niulangzhuang on the east bank of Baihe River and its surrounding villagers will go to Niulangzhuang to burn incense and offer sacrifices to pray for their children.

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated from the worship of the stars by the ancients, and it was the result of people deifying and anthropomorphizing the stars in the sky, which was also proved in Nanyang. In the 1970s, a Han relief stone named "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Constellation" was unearthed from Baitan Han Tomb on the west bank of Nanyang Baihe River. Judging from the posture, manner and walking posture, the cow led by the cowherd on the right is undoubtedly a domesticated cow-Nanyang Yellow Cattle; The sitting posture of Weaver Girl in the lower left corner is also the working posture of women in Han Dynasty. [7]

In 2007, Nanyang's "Legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl" entered the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list in Henan Province. [2]

20 12- 10, Nanyang municipal bureau of culture implemented the declaration of national intangible cultural heritage that "the legend of the cowherd and the weaver girl originated in Nanyang", which was finally successful and culturally confirmed that the legend of the cowherd and the weaver girl originated in Nanyang. In the south of the "Six-country Wharf" in the southern suburbs of Taicang, there is a Huanggu pond next to Liujiagang and a Huanggu village by the river. According to ancient legends, this is the birthplace of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an Huanggu Temple in the village, which was dedicated to the God of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. There is a beautiful and touching myth and legend here.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl are all immortals in the sky. Cowherd is called Hegu Star, and later generations mistakenly call it Huanggu Star. The weaver girl is called the weaver girl, and she is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother. Cowherd and Weaver Girl love each other freely in the sky. The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother thought that they were "not in the right place", and in the name of "making love, affecting work", they kept the weaver girl under strict supervision and demoted the cowherd to the world. Before Cowherd came down to earth, Weaver Girl whispered to Cowherd that if you miss her on earth, you can fill the lotus jar with clear water, look at the water in the jar and see the beautiful image of Weaver Girl. With this in mind, Niulang was born in a farmer's home in Huanggu Village next to Huanggutang in the southern suburb of Taicang.

Cowherd in Huanggu Village, whose parents died when he was a child, lived in his brother's sister-in-law's house. There is a cow, a Taurus star in the sky, flying to the cowherd. Cowherd keeps cattle well and often goes to the fields to herd cattle, so he is very close. Sister-in-law always bullies him, mistreats him, cooks things and eats them secretly without telling Cowherd. The old cow has spirituality. Knowing that Sister-in-law was stealing good food from home, she told Cowherd to hurry home for dinner. Sister-in-law hated it so much that she forced Cowherd to split up. Cowherd said, I want nothing but this cow, plant a piece of land and live in a thatched cottage.

After the separation, the cowherd and the cow worked hard, leading the cow to farm in the field and living together with the cow. Cowherd is smart and capable, and gradually grows into a strong and sensible young man. After doing farm work in the field, he often rides on the back of cattle and plays the flute to relieve boredom. When I miss the weaver girl, I look at the weaver girl in the lotus jar in a daze. He played a beautiful flute, and the weaver girl in the sky was fascinated by it. She has been eavesdropping on the Cowherd playing the flute in the colorful clouds for 7749 days, which aroused her love for him. The old cow said, "Cowherd, Cowherd, you wave to her. If she is interesting, she will meet you. " The cowherd looked up at the colorful clouds. Sure enough, he saw a beautiful fairy, like a weaver girl in a lotus jar, waving to her. When Weaver saw Cowherd waving to her, she pulled out a silver hairpin from her head and threw it down. With a brush, the silver hairpin became a thoroughfare. The cowherd rode on the back of the cow and met the weaver girl in the sky. Cowherd and Weaver Girl love me and I love you, so the old cow acts as a matchmaker, and Weaver Girl goes down to Huanggu Village and marries Cowherd.

They farmed men and weavers, gave birth to twins, a man and a woman, and lived happily. The cloth woven by the weaver girl is very good and the business is good. She is also willing to teach women in Huanggu village to learn weaving, and the neighborhood relationship is very close. Before he died, the old cow put its head on the river bank and said to the cowherd, "After I die, you can peel off my skin and put it away. You can use it when you are in danger and you can wear it on your body! " The river where the old cow died is still called "Niutoujing".

The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor found that the Weaver Girl was not weaving in the computer room, and sent a god to inquire, knowing that the Weaver Girl was born in Huanggu Village, married the Cowherd and raised twins. The Jade Emperor was furious and sent an angel to escort the Weaver Girl away. Cowherd was farming in the field when suddenly he saw that the weather was bad. He hurried home and found that the Weaver Girl had disappeared. He looked up at the sky and found that the Weaver Girl was escorted to the sky by the gods. He quickly put on cowhide and picked a load to fly to the sky. While chasing, he shouted, "Heaven will be rude, give it back to my wife!" When the Weaver Girl saw the Cowherd chasing after me, she thought that I was the granddaughter of the Jade Emperor and would definitely not do anything to me. Cowherd is bound to be severely punished when he goes to heaven. He waved them not to come. The cowherd didn't listen, and the weaver girl was anxious. She tore off a golden hairpin from her head, drew a line behind her and drew a galaxy. The river rolled and the waves rolled, stopping the cowherd and them in Hedong, but not across the river.

After the Jade Emperor arrested the Weaver Girl, he severely reprimanded her and imprisoned her in the computer room to weave. Cowherd can't meet Weaver Girl, and the child cries for his mother. Mother Earth (the wife of the Jade Emperor who is in charge of everything on earth) saw the poor Weaver Girl and begged the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor agreed to meet Weaver Girl and Cowherd once a year on the seventh day of July. On this day, there were birds and magpies on the bridge, so the cowherd and the weaver girl took their children to heaven and met the weaver girl on the magpie bridge.