The real names of the seven fairies are Tianshou, Tianyang, Tianrong, Tianchang, Tianxian, Tianqing and Tianyu.
The Seven Fairies are seven goddesses in legendary myths and legends. The earliest myth about Dong Yong did not specify who the parents of the Seven Fairies were. They later evolved into the seven daughters of the Jade Emperor.
The Origin of the Seven Fairies
The Seven Fairies are seven goddesses in the myth and legend. The legend of the Seven Immortals began to appear in the Han Dynasty. In the stone carving of "Dong Yong's Marriage", the seven fairies are in the form of men in feathers. In the Han Dynasty, there were many murals showing figures in feathers surrounding the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East.
The seven fairies are suspected to be the gods of the Queen Mother and the Prince. In later folklore, it is said that the Seven Immortals are the daughters of the Queen Mother. The names of the seven fairies in "Journey to the West" are: Fairy in red, fairy in green, fairy in blue, fairy in orange, fairy in purple, fairy in yellow, and fairy in green.
Seven Fairies, said to be the youngest of the seven sisters, is from Jiangsu. She is the most ingenious and kind-hearted. One day, the Seven Fairies learned that there was a young man named Dong Mingyong in Danyang (now Xiaodanyang Town, Nanjing City). Because his family was poor and had no money to bury his dead father, he had to sell himself into slavery.
The Seventh Sister was deeply moved, and she and Dong Yong became friends for hundreds of years in private, and they got married under the big locust tree. It's a pity that Dahuashu, who was the matchmaker, was happy for a while and said "a happy marriage of a hundred years" instead of a "happy marriage of a hundred days", leaving Dong Yong's seventh sister with only a hundred days of fate.
The seventh sister used her skillful gold shuttle to weave 10 pieces of brocade silk to redeem Dong Yong, preparing to renovate her home. Unexpectedly, the Jade Emperor was very angry when he heard about it and summoned the seventh sister back to the palace. The seventh sister had to fly away in pain.
Her weaving fabrics turned into shuttle stones, and the loom remained in the world. People can still hear the "click, click" sound of the loom in the dead of night.
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, girls in costumes gather beside the Shuttle Stone, holding sewing boxes in hand to beg for skills from the seventh sister, and sing begging songs. After singing the song of begging for cleverness, you also need to ask about the age, good or bad luck, whether you can get married, etc.