Why do people in Chaoshan call the Weaver Girl "Seven Sisters"?

No, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl told the story of the Weaver Girl, and the Seven Fairys Yong Dong told the story of the Seven Daughters of the Jade Emperor. Both of them told the story of a fairy falling in love with a man on earth, which was very touching.

Yong Dong and the Seven Fairies.

Legend has it that the seven fairies, the daughter of the Jade Emperor, yearned for human life because they felt lonely in heaven. One day, my six sisters and I went to Lingxiutai and met Yong Dong, a young farmer from the lower bound, who sold himself to bury his father. He was moved by his frankness and fell in love.

The elder sister saw through the little sister's mind and helped her to come down to earth despite the strict orders of the Heavenly Palace. When I left, I gave another incense to let my little sister burn incense for help in a critical moment. The seven fairies came to earth and married Yong Dong through the intermediary of the land god and the Huaiyin tree. In order to help her husband get salvation, the seven fairies went to work in a house outside Fu Yuan. W deliberately made things difficult for her and restricted her from knitting ten brocade silks overnight.

If successful, the term of permanent employment in Yong Dong will be changed from three years to 100 days, otherwise it will be changed from three years to six years. Seven fairies lit incense in the computer room for help, and six sisters came down to help, weaving ten silks overnight. Mr. Fu had to keep his promise.

After Yong Dong's work expired, the couple returned home happily. On the way, Yong Dong found that his wife was pregnant and hurried to beg for water to quench his thirst. At this time, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the generals in the sky appeared in the air. According to the imperial edict of the Jade Emperor, the seven fairies were ordered to return to the Heavenly Palace at 3 noon. If they don't obey orders, Yong Dong will be chopped to pieces. The Seven Fairys could not bear the innocent victim of her husband, so they had to explain their life experience to Yong Dong, and carved an oath on the Huaiyin tree, "I am not afraid of heaven separating you from me, and I am one with you in heaven", and returned to heaven with indignation.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl/Cowherd and Weaver Girl

This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four folk love legends in China.

Legend has it that there is a Vega and an Altair in the sky. Weaver Girl and Penny are soul mates. But it is forbidden for men and women to fall in love and fall in love privately. The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother demoted Penny to the world and made the Weaver Girl Brocade as a punishment.

Weaver's job is to weave layers of beautiful clouds on the loom with a magical silk, and change their colors with time and season. This is the "heavenly clothes". Ever since Penny was demoted, Weaver Girl has been in Lacrimosa, thinking about Penny with a frown. She sat by the loom and kept knitting beautiful brocade, in order to win the favor of the queen mother and let Penny return to heaven as soon as possible.

One day, several fairies begged the Queen Mother to see the Lian Bi Pool on earth. The queen mother was in a good mood today and promised them. Seeing that the Weaver Girl was depressed all day, they begged the Queen Mother to let the Weaver Girl go with them. The Queen Mother felt sorry for her granddaughter after being punished, so she let them go and come back quickly.

After being demoted, Penny was born in a farmer's home and named Cowherd. Later, when his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. My brother and sister-in-law are mean to Cowherd and want to separate from him. They only gave him an old cow and a broken car, and the rest were monopolized by his brother and sister-in-law, and then they separated from the cowherd.

Since then, the cowherd and the old cow have lived together. They cut thorns, cultivated land and built houses in the wasteland. A year or two later, they built a small home and barely made ends meet. However, except for the old cow who can't talk, Cowherd is the only one in the deserted home, and life is quite lonely. The cowherd doesn't know that the old cow is the Taurus in the sky.

On this day, the old cow suddenly spoke and said to the cowherd, "Cowherd, today you go to Bilianchi, where some fairies are taking a bath." You hide that red fairy costume, and the fairy in the red fairy costume will become your wife. " Cowherd was surprised and happy when he saw the old cow talking, so he asked, "Niu Ge, can you really talk?" Is it true what you said? "The old cow nodded, and the cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside Bilianchi, waiting for the arrival of the fairies.

After a while, the fairies really floated in, took off their light clothes and jumped into the clear stream. The cowherd ran out of the reeds and took the red fairy's clothes. When the fairies saw someone coming, they quickly put on their clothes and flew away like birds, leaving only the fairies who could not escape without clothes. She is a weaver girl. Seeing that her fairy clothes were taken away by a young man, the Weaver Girl was ashamed and anxious, but she was helpless. At this moment, Cowherd came over and told her that he could not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. The weaver girl looked intently and realized that the cowherd was the cow she missed day and night, so she shyly agreed to him. In this way, the Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd.

After they got married, they worked hard, loved each other and lived a very happy life. Soon, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, very cute. Cowherd and Weaver Girl thought they could be together for life and grow old together.

However, when the Queen Mother learned of this incident, she flew into a rage and immediately sent a fairy to catch the Weaver Girl and make amends.

On this day, the weaver girl was cooking, and the cowherd hurried back from the fields. His eyes were red and swollen, and he told Weaver, "Niu Ge is dead. Before he died, he asked me to peel off his cowhide and put it away. One day, I can wear it and fly to the sky. " Hearing this, the Weaver Girl wondered. She knew that the old cow was the golden bull in the sky, and she was demoted to heaven just because she said a few good words for the demoted morning cow. How can you suddenly die? The weaver girl asked the cowherd to peel off the cowhide and bury the old cow.

At this time, the sky is stormy, and the heavenly soldiers will fall from the sky. It is hard to say that it is escorting the Weaver Girl to the sky.

Flying, flying, Weaver Girl heard the voice of Cowherd: "Weaver Girl, wait for me!" " "Looking back, the Weaver Girl saw the Cowherd coming with a pair of baskets and two cowhide children. Slowly, the distance between them is getting closer and closer, and the weaver girl can also see the lovely faces of her children. The children opened their arms and shouted "Mom". Seeing, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are about to meet. But at this moment, the queen mother came in with Xiangyun. She took off the golden hairpin on her head and rowed it among them. At the moment, a Tianhe wave is caught between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd and cannot be crossed.

The Weaver Girl looked at the Cowherd and his children across the Tianhe River and cried herself hoarse. Cowherd and children also cried their eyes out. Their cries and the children's cries for "mom" are so heart-wrenching and tearful that even the fairies and immortals watching the battle feel sad and unbearable. Seeing this situation, the Queen Mother was slightly moved by the loyal love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so she agreed to let the Cowherd and the children stay in the sky and let them meet once a year on July 7.

From then on, the Cowherd and his children lived in the sky, separated from the Weaver Girl by a Tianhe River. Among the stars in the autumn night sky, we can still see two big stars on both sides of the Milky Way. They are Vega and Altair. The Altair has two little stars, namely a son and a daughter of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

On July 7, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, and countless groups of magpies flew to bridge the gap for them. On the Magpie Bridge, Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet again! The Weaver Cowherd is affectionate, hugging the children, and there are endless words and feelings!

Legend has it that on July 7th every year, if people listen quietly in the vines under the grape trellis, they can vaguely hear Yue Xian's performance, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd are talking affectionately. To put it bluntly, it's been a long time before I met her, but it's been longer since we broke up. They look forward to meeting again on July 7 of the next year every day.

Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the starry sky, look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray to God that they will be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and pray that they can have a happy marriage and beautiful love, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.

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Chenghai has a Seven-Lady Palace dedicated to seven fairies, and the former site sits side by side with Gansan Palace. The seventh lady is worthy of Yong Dong's seventh sister. In the company, there is a novel "Xian Ji sends a son", which tells that Qi Mei gave birth to a child in heaven and sent it back to the world. Chaoshan people appreciate her kindness very much, and have always played it as an auspicious play and built a temple to worship it.

Therefore, the Seven Sisters mentioned by Chaoshan people should not refer to the Weaver Girl, but relate Tanabata with the story of Yong Dong. Undeniably, since then, people have gradually confused the stories of Yong Dong, the Seven Fairys and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.