Legend has it that a long time ago, in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang, there was a train trip to Tibet in 2006, a "grazing" trip in summer and a "Zen" trip in the suburbs of Beijing. Taobao, a global flea market, recorded a smart and honest young man whose parents died young and had to live alone with his brother and sister-in-law. Sister-in-law Ma Shi is very vicious, often abusing him and forcing him to do a lot of work. One autumn, my sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle and gave him nine cows, but told him to wait until he had ten cows. The cowherd had no choice but to drive the cow out of the village. ......
Xi 'an said that Cowherd and Weaver Girl are evidence.
The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Xi, China. The statue of Cowherd and Weaver Girl more than two thousand years ago is in the jurisdiction of Doumen Sub-district Office in Chang 'an District. "Said from.
In early 2005, it was put forward at the "two sessions" of the city that the government should develop the historical and cultural resources of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, designate the seventh day of the seventh lunar month as Valentine's Day in China, and build a cultural tourist area on the ruins of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Temple in Doumen Sub-district Office of Chang 'an District. So as to create a "summer trip to Tibet by train in 2006", a "meditation trip" to the suburbs of Beijing, a global flea market and a love culture source of Taobao. "In our folk, the myth that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Queqiao Bridge can be said to be a household name, known to all women and children." Yu told reporters that the development of historical and cultural resources of Cowherd and Weaver Girl reflects the diversity and richness of national culture in content and form. The simple and beautiful story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is an excellent material for moral education of teenagers, which can not only carry forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, but also add new highlights to the tourism of the ancient city of Xi 'an.
Nanyang makes it clear that the origin of the explanation is only Nanyang.
If you search for keywords such as Tanabata, Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the Internet, there will be more than 40,000 related pages, and all the clearly explained stories are "Niujiazhuang in the west of Nanyang City".
With the approach of Valentine's Day in China, the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl originated in Nanyang has aroused heated discussion among the general public. Many enthusiastic citizens also provided the exact address of Niujiazhuang, believing that Niulangzhuang in Lihe Township, Wancheng District, Nanyang City is the legendary Niujiazhuang.
On July 28th, the reporter interviewed Professor Jiangfeng Chen, vice president of Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry and an expert in folklore. Jiangfeng Chen made an in-depth study of Qixi culture in his early years and published relevant academic papers. He believes that according to the geographical conditions, Han Dynasty ideology, relatively concentrated folklore, ancient literature records and other aspects of investigation and analysis, the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated in Chu on both sides of the Han River. In Nanyang, there are not only stone paintings of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the Han Dynasty, but also stories that are still circulating orally, and the origin of the stories is clearly explained.
Jiangfeng Chen said that the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was first seen in The Book of Songs, indicating that this story originated in the pre-Qin era. By the Han Dynasty, the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl had matured. According to the data analysis, the origin of Valentine's Day in China began in the Hanshui River Basin during the Chu period. Due to the rise of the Han Dynasty, the story of China's Valentine's Day and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was widely and deeply circulated.
The adjacent Nanyang basin is also a Chu land, which has been rich in improved cattle since ancient times. A local folk story says, "There is a Niujiazhuang twenty miles west of Nanyang, and there is a cowherd in Niujiazhuang." Mr. Zhang, a folklorist, also said in "On the Evolution of Classical Myths in the Central Plains": "The Cowherd is a native of Sanglin Village in the west of Nanyang City. The weaver girl came to the world from the sky, married the cowherd, and personally taught the sisters in Nanyang to learn how to raise silkworms, spin silk and weave silk. " Different stories refer to the same origin of Chen Zhe, which shows that Nanyang has the economic and cultural soil to produce the myth of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
In addition, a large number of relics related to the myth of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" and the custom of "Chinese Valentine's Day" have been preserved in Hanshui Valley. Yunxi county, which used to be under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang government, has such place names as "Tianhe" and "Tianhekou". According to legend, the "Laohekou" in laohekou city is the Tianhe Estuary where the Han River meets the Tianhe River. Shangluo County is said to be the "Weaver Creek" where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been active. For example, there is a "Cowherd Cave" in Lushan Mountain, and there is also the "Nine Girls Pool" where the fairy bathes in this story.
There are also stories of cowherd and weaver girl in Nanyang Han paintings.
According to the staff of Nanyang Han Painting Museum, the legendary story about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can be confirmed on the Han stone relief unearthed in Nanyang. There is a stone in the Han Dynasty Painting Gallery, which depicts a cowherd and a weaver girl. This stone was discovered in Baitan Village, Dushan Dongpo, the northern suburb of Nanyang in the 1970s. There is an Altair in the upper right corner of the portrait, and a cow is painted under it. In front of the cow, there is a man leading the cow with a whip. There is a weaver girl in the lower left corner, where a woman with a high bun is kneeling. As can be seen from the painting, the legendary old cow is as big as the current Nanyang yellow cow.
Nanyang Yellow Cattle Nanyang Yellow Cattle is one of the five major thoroughbred cattle in China, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad. Nanyang Yellow Cattle has a long history, and naturally there are many stories of "Cattle": "Funiu Mountain", "Chang 'e Black Cattle" and "Hundred Li Xi Cattle Raising" ... Among them, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are the most wonderful. Today, Nanyang is a large agricultural area, and the agricultural field in Han Dynasty is also brilliant. Zhang Heng praised his hometown's "Nanfu", which is said to be "a hundred valleys, two wings and harmony".
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Nanyang yellow cattle had entered the stage of house feeding and enclosure feeding. A native of Qin Xiang Bai Li Xi, he is good at raising cattle. In his down-and-out life, he lived by herding cattle in Qilingang, west of Nanyang. He once heard that Zhou Tianzi liked cattle, that is, raising cattle as a ladder to meet him, which was a much-told story. In the Han Dynasty, bullfighting became a popular activity in Nanyang at that time, and a large number of cattle images appeared in the world-famous Han Dynasty stone relief in Nanyang.
It is not surprising that such a "cow" culture has produced a "cowherd" in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City.
The story of cowherd weaving cattle has been more than 2000 years since the Han Dynasty. Things have changed. Where is the legendary Niujiazhuang in the west of Nanyang now? Is the old cow accompanying the cowherd a Nanyang yellow cow? The river where the Weaver Maid descended to bathe in the White River? These problems need to be verified by relevant experts.