The story of the "Cowherd Weaver Girl" typically symbolizes agricultural civilization. Together with Meng Jiangnu, Liang Zhu and Bai Niangzi, it was listed as the four major folk legends, and in 2006, it was selected into the national "Intangible Cultural Heritage" list. Because "cow" and "woman" are husband and wife, loyal to feelings, and caring for the family, "Tanabata" is actually "Husband and Wife Festival" or "Family Festival", which is also an important model for the ideal love of the Chinese people, in fact, it has nothing to do with "lover".
The legend of "cow" and "woman" began with the worship of the ancestors. The Book of Poetry. Dadong" "Zhao Pi Weaver Girl, All Day Seven Xiang" the earliest budding story romantic feelings, and was later given a two-star personality by history and public opinion; the legend of the "Queqiao Society" in the early Han Dynasty has taken shape, and the Southern Dynasty has clarified the relationship between "cow" and "woman"; Tang Dezong Zhenyuan built the earliest cowherd weaver girl temple in Chang'an in the fourteenth year (798); the Song Dynasty Qin Shaoyou made the story graceful and full of aftertaste to the peak in July 1093, and since then the "Qixi" story has been beautiful and sad for a thousand years. Although the whole word writes the "cow" and "female" double stars in the sky, in fact, every sentence writes that the world's idiot men and women love to watch.
"Cowherd Weaver Girl" is "Male Cultivator Female Weaver". The ancient city of Chang'an is also the birthplace of the legend of the cow girl and the Tanabata culture. "Men have points, women have returns", only the title of the protagonist of the story is the meaning of the natural division of labor in the self-sufficient family economy of the Chinese ancestors' farming society, and the Ming Dynasty Zhao Bi's "Qingcheng Hermit" is called "female weaver male farming, mulberry and ma manpu". And because the story also has "old cows" and "little children" supporting roles, more ancestors comprehensive "well-off" society " half acres of land, a cow, wife, children, hot kangtou " ideal life and "children and daughters" population model "standard".
The "Queqiao Society" is the paradigm of forging true love. "Cowherd Weaver Girl" watches over Chinese classic love. On both sides of the "River Han", the cowherd weaver girl because of the irresistible force of "Yingying a water, the pulse is not silent", silently guarding, waiting for each other, "the sky is long, this hatred is endless", and finally touched the "Queqiao Meeting" once a year in Shangcang Enzhun. "If the two loves are long, will they be in the twilight of the dynasty" with poignant and humanistic observation to inspire generations of lovers to "cut off the intestines and have no regrets", countless men and women in love are in the middle of the night when the mountain alliance and the sea oath, so that the generations of amorous people chanted poems and songs more than 3,000 songs.
The "beggar" festival is intended to educate "ladies". According to the Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing", "Tanabata" is a "large-scale women's blessing festival" and is a veritable "daughter's day". On the night of "Tanabata", when the cowherd weaver girl "met with golden wind and jade dew", the unmarried woman in the courtyard was in the breeze and the moon, and the seasonal melon and fruit worshiped the weaver star to beg for wisdom and skill, "the family begged for the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silks", not only seeking skillful knitting women's red skills to suppress the crowd and win the heavenly work, but also willing to deserve a gentleman and a good fortune. The reason why today is packaged by merchants as Valentine's Day is intended to seduce lovers with various consumption (picture quoted on the Internet).