The story of Yuelao

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Before the old man appeared in ancient times, Nu WA held the post of matchmaker, and the ancients highly respected the matchmaker who was responsible for matchmaking men and women, which is also easy to understand. 

In ancient times, a thriving tribe must be strong, and its productivity and combat effectiveness were correspondingly strong. If you want people to prosper, you naturally have to pray for the blessing of the matchmaker. In ancient times, the matchmaker also served as the god of fertility, so he became an important god sacrificed by the tribe or the state. 

Every year in the middle of spring, the monarch sacrifices the matchmaker, offering offerings to chickens, pigs, sheep, cattle and other livestock. 

According to legend, Nu WA was the earliest matchmaker in China. 

We know that Nu WA is the god of making man and mending heaven, while Nu WA is not widely known as a matchmaker. 

Therefore, one of the great factors in regarding Nu WA as a matchmaker is Nu WA's contribution to the creation of human beings. 

Nu WA created people and divided them into men and women, so that people could reproduce. 

The emergence of marriage is also a great achievement of Nu WA. 

Nu WA created man and gave people a way of life, which is precisely because of the difference between men and women. 

Because of the gender of men and women, in this ecology, people have established an ethical marriage system. 

Therefore, people attribute this marriage to Nu WA and regard her as the oldest matchmaker. 

Offering sacrifices to Nuwa, the god of matchmaking, was a common and grand thing in the past. 

The ancient book says that because Nu WA gave people the ability to live and organized people together, there was a nation, and people longed for the continuation of life, so they sacrificed her as a matchmaker and built a temple for women. 

Because Nu WA had the priesthood of matchmaking, people always sacrificed her and prayed for a better marriage. 

As a result, there is a continuous incense fire in the Nu Ji Temple. 

Until the emergence of a new media god, people gradually changed their view of Nu WA and were more willing to sacrifice Nu WA as their ancestors. 

The replacement of Nu WA, the god of media, is Yuelao. 

The moon is the abbreviation of the old man under the moon. 

Around the Tang Dynasty, Yuelao began to appear among the people. 

It is well known that the old man leads the red line under the month. I often hear the old man talk about it, or see it in the records of folk customs. 

The moon is always a matchmaker, and his job is to be in charge of folk marriage. 

The way is to pull strings. 

At a time when young people are courting, the old moon begins to arrange the marriage of young men and women. 

As long as the old man binds the red line to the young man and the girl on his feet, then it is doomed to the marriage of two young men and women in this life. 

In terms of what kind of ups and downs and difficulties, will form a husband and wife under such a test. 

The marriage of men and women in the world is all decided by the old man under the moon. 

Under the month, the old man also becomes the hope of young people in love, praying that the matchmaker can give himself a suitable marriage without suffering for a lifetime.The origin of the old moon. 

There is also a beautiful legend. 

There was a teenager named Wei Gu in the Tang Dynasty. One day he went on an outing and stayed in a hotel in the south of the city that night. 

In the evening, Wei Gu took a walk in the moon and came to the back garden and saw an old man reading under the moon with his brocade bag on his back. he hurriedly came forward to salute and asked what books he was reading. 

The old man smiled and said, "Wedding slips". 

Wei Gu thought: "Marriage slips" must be a book about human marriage, and when he saw the bulging and red glow, he asked what was in it. 

The old man smiled and said, "Red rope, too." 

Wei Gu asked again: what is the use of red rope? 

The old man took out a red rope from his bag and saw a red light circle around Wei Gu's feet and then headed north. 

The old man told Wei Gu that this rope is the foot of a couple, although the enemy's home, poor and low, the end of the world, this rope will also be good and, in the end, can not be violated. 

Seeing that his marriage had been decided, Wei Gu hurriedly asked himself who he was married to. 

The old man replied, "the daughter of an old woman who sells vegetables in the north of the shop." 

And then he disappeared. 

The next day, Wei Gu got up early to freshen up and quickly found the old woman selling vegetables in the north of the shop and specifically asked his daughter. 

What I saw was a dishevelled, skinny, ugly three-year-old girl. 

Can not help the fire, unexpectedly drew a sword to stab the girl exclaimed, the old woman shouted, Wei Gu abandoned the sword and fled. 

More than ten years later, Wei Gu has become a general and married Xiang Niang, the daughter of Xiangzhou and Wang Tai. 

On the wedding night, Wei Gu opened the red head cover of Xiang Niang and saw that his wife was very beautiful. She only saw a small flower cut with red paper in the middle of her eyebrow and asked why. 

According to Xiang Niang's account, she knew that Xiang Niang was the daughter of an old woman who sold vegetables at that time. 

Husband and wife wake up from a dream, from then on love, children and grandchildren, together to the end. 

After that, the folk worshiped the "old man under the moon" as the god of marriage.