The official names of the seven fairies are Tianshou, Tianyang, Tianrong, Tianchang, Tianxian, Tianqing and Tianyu. Folks generally call these seven sisters: the Great Fairy, the Second Fairy, the Third Fairy, the Fourth Fairy, the Fifth Fairy, the Sixth Fairy and the Seventh Fairy. The Seven Fairies is the collective name for the seven goddesses in Chinese mythology.
Sometimes it also refers to the seventh sister, the youngest of the seven sisters. The origin of the Seven Immortals:
The first is astronomical worship, which is related to the seven stars of Nusu Fu basket, the seven stars of Pleiades, the three stars of Niu Sui and Weaver Girl, and the four stars of Nusu Wunu.
The second is the image of the feathered man arising from the idea of ??ascending to immortality in the Qin and Han Dynasties.
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The Ming Dynasty novel "Journey to the West" mentions the specific names of the Seven Immortals: "Red Fairy, Green Fairy, Plain Fairy, Soap Fairy, Purple Fairy, Yellow Fairy" "Fairy, green fairy," it is believed that the seven immortals wear seven-colored clothes, which seems to be related to the seven colors.
The love story between the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong: Dong Yong’s family was poor and he sold himself to bury his father. The Seventh Sister, the youngest of the seven weaving fairies in heaven, loved and pitied him, so she secretly married Yong in the mortal world under a locust tree, and went to Fu Yuan's maternal home to weave brocade to pay off her debts. When the hundred days are up, Fang plans to return home and build a better life in the future. The Jade Emperor showed his power, and the seven fairies were afraid that Dong Yong would suffer, so they died in tears.