Once upon a time, by the West Lake in Hangzhou, there was a temple for the elderly under the moon. Girls who fall in love with spring and widowed men who love their spouses go in to burn incense, draw lots and make wishes. There are seven, seven, four, seven and nine hexagrams in the temple. The first one is: "The pigeons in Guanguan are in Hezhou. My fair lady, a gentleman is good. " The last one is: "May all lovers get married." The theme of people praying for the elderly under the moon was very cleverly pointed out.
Suppose this old man was first discovered in the Tang Dynasty.
In the early years of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan, there was a Wei Gu who lost his parents in his teens and always wanted to get married and start a family early. However, many proposals were unsuccessful. This-back to Song Cheng, he lived in a shop. The overnight guests introduced him to Miss Sima Panfang of Qinghe and agreed to meet in front of Dianxi longxing temple the next morning. Wei Gu was eager to propose and ran away at dawn. At this time, the moon is about to set, but the moonlight is still bright. I saw an old man sitting on the steps with a backpack on his back, checking documents by moonlight. Look at the document, but I don't know a word. Wei Gu asked curiously, "What are you reading, old man? When I was a child, I studied hard. I don't know all the calligraphy, even the Sanskrit of Tianzhu can understand it. It's just that this book has never been seen before. What's wrong? " The old man smiled and said, "There is not a book in this world. How can I have a chance to see it? " Wei Gu asked again, "What book is that?" The old man said, "The book of the underworld." Wei Gu asked, "How can people from the underworld come here?" The old man said, "It's not that I shouldn't have come, it's that you went out too early, so you met me." Officials in the underworld are in charge of human affairs, and of course they often come to the world. Ask again: "Then what do you care?" The old man replied: "The marriage book of everyone in the world." Wei Gu was overjoyed and asked, "I'm the only one. I want to get married and have children early. In the past ten years, I have proposed marriage many times, but all failed. Today, I was asked to discuss proposing to Miss Pansma. Can I succeed? " The old man replied, "The opportunity hasn't arrived yet. Your wife, who is only three years old, won't come into your house until she is seventeen. " Wei Gu was very disappointed. By the way, he asked, "What's in the old man's backpack?" The old man said, "Red rope is used to tie the feet of men and women who should be lovers." After the locals sat down, I quietly tied them up. Then, even if they were born in an enemy's home, or live far apart, or live far apart, or one of them went to the ends of the earth to be a policeman, or Wu and Chu lived in different towns and villages, as long as they tied this rope, no one could escape. Your foot is tied to that foot. What's the use of pursuing others? "Wei Gu asked," then where is my wife? What does her family do? " Answer: "the daughter of Mrs. Chen, who sells vegetables in the north of our shop." Wei Gu said, "Can we meet?" The old man said, "Mrs. Chen once hugged her to sell vegetables here. "Come with me, I can show you."
It's dawn, and those who want to wait don't come. The old man rolled up the bag on the back of the book and left. Wei Gu quickly followed him and followed the vegetable market all the way. There is a blind woman with a little girl about three years old in her arms-the girl is in rags and looks very ugly. The old man pointed to him and said, "This is your wife." When Wei Gu saw it, he was very angry and said, "Can I kill her? ! "The old man said," This man is destined to enjoy the title, and it is because of you that he can be made king of the county. How could he be killed? " Then the old man disappeared.
When Wei Gu returned to the shop, he sharpened his knife and gave it to his servant. He said: "Only when you have the ability can you do things. If you kill the girl for me, you will be rewarded with 10 thousand yuan. " The servant agreed. The next day, the servant hid, the knife came to the market, stabbed the girl in the crowd, and the whole market was in turmoil. The servant fled back in a frenzy. Q: "Did you stab the factory?" The servant said, "I want to stab the center of the earth." I don't want to just stab my eyebrows. "Since then, Wei Gu proposed in many ways, but failed once.
Fourteen years later, Wei Gu was appointed as Xiangzhou to join the army, because the court believed that his father had made great contributions before his death. Wang Tai, the secretariat, made Wei a part-time supervisor, thinking that Wei had talent, so he married his daughter. Miss age about 16 or 17 years old, beautiful appearance, Wei Gu is very satisfied. It's just that she often inserts a bud between her eyebrows, even when washing her face. After many years of marriage, Wei Gu repeatedly asked why she was wearing Hua Tuo. His wife wept bitterly and said, "I am only the niece of the secretariat, not my own daughter. My father used to be a county magistrate in Song Cheng and died in office. At that time, I was still in infancy, and my mother and brother died one after another. There is only one farm in the south of Song Dynasty, where I live with wet nurse Chen. Zhuangtian is close to the hotel and sells vegetables every day. Chen pities me for my young age, never forgets, and often takes me to the food market. One day, I was stabbed by a heartless thief, and the scar was still there, so I covered it with a bud. Seven or eight years ago, my uncle went to be an official nearby, so I came with him, and now I marry you as my own daughter. " Q: "Chen-is one eye blind?" The lady said, "Yes. How do you know? " Wei Gu confessed, "I stabbed you." So what happened in front, described it again. After these twists and turns, the couple became more respectful and in love. Later, she gave birth to her son Wei Kun, who was the prefect of Yanmen guarding the border. Mrs. Wang was named "Mrs. Wang of Taiyuan County".
After the story of Wei Gu spread, people knew that there was a fairy who was in charge of human marriage, but they didn't know his name, so they had to call him "the old man under the moon". His temples and statues are everywhere.