Why do you call the person who matches love a "matchmaker"? What's the difference between matchmaker and yuelao?

According to the subject's question, my answer is as follows. In ancient times, people fell in love before the flowers and under the moon. That's why there is a poem: willow shoots on the moon, and people meet after dusk. When the ancients fell in love, they thought that love was witnessed by the moon. So I think there is a kind old fairy on the moon that promotes feelings, so it is called the old moon. The ancients believed that the matchmaker was the goddess in charge of marriage, and tied men and women together with red lines to make them a pair. So call the matchmaker! This statement seems to make sense. However, the author believes that Yue Lao is a character in myths and legends, while the characters in the literary works of matchmaker are not myths and legends, but at most folklore.

Are "Yue Lao" and "Matchmaker" all myths and legends? My answer is no, Old Moon is a fairy tale, and Matchmaker is a folk story.

The myth and legend of "Yue Lao" comes from novels in the Tang Dynasty. One night, when Wei Gu of the Tang Dynasty passed by Song Cheng, he met an old man sitting there, leaning on his schoolbag and reading in the moonlight. Wei Gu in the Tang Dynasty felt very strange and asked the old man what books he had read under the moon. Under the moon, the old man replied: the marriage book on earth. Wei Gu asked him what he was doing with the red rope in his bag. Under the moon, the old man answered: it's husband and wife's feet. Neither the enemy nor a foreign country can leave with this rope. It is said that the old man under the moon is the god in charge of marriage. Therefore, it has become another name for the matchmaker with "the elder under the moon, the elder under the moon, and the elder under the moon".

The folklore of "matchmaker" comes from the biography of Yingying written by Yuan Zhen in Tang Dynasty. According to this book, Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying fell in love. After Cui Yingying's maid made a plan to fix them up, the two lovers finally got married.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Shifu adapted this story into The West Chamber. Since then, "matchmaker" has become another name for matchmaker.

Through the actions of "Yue Lao" and "Hong Niang" above, we know that they are the same. They are matchmakers for young men and women, in order to make people beautiful.

Matchmaker She is not a myth or legend. It is not that the fate of men and women's marriage is determined by heaven, but the true story of men and women's free love and common life. Such a beautiful person, "matchmaker" is a compliment, not a compliment to those beautiful people. This is also the fundamental reason why they are called "matchmakers" rather than "matchmakers".

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In a word, beautiful people are called "Moon Elder" or "Matchmaker" because they have done a good deed for unmarried men and women, a beautiful good deed. Although it is a good thing, "Yue Lao" is a ray of providence, and "Matchmaker" is a popular figure in real life. This is the fundamental reason why they are called "matchmakers" instead of "green mothers", "blue mothers" or other mothers. The above is my answer, I hope it will help you.