Yue Lao (65333)
The image of Yue Lao first appeared in The Engagement Shop by Li Fuyan, a novelist in the Tang Dynasty. According to records, in the second year (AD 807), Tang Chaoyuan happened to meet an old man under the moon.
Song Cheng county magistrate named Wei Guyuan's hotel "betrothal shop" after learning about this incident. Old people come from this, passed down from generation to generation, and are known throughout the ages. The old man under the moon later became another name for the matchmaker. ?
Under the moon, the old man tied men and women with red ropes to fix their marriage, which reflected the Tang people's cognitive attitude towards love and marriage. For the previous marriage, we must talk about the concept of suitable marriage, and Yue Lao's marriage concept has obviously made great progress.
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From the Tang Dynasty writer Li Fuyan's "Continued Mystery Record Engagement Shop", the original text:
When Du Gu and Yuan He visited Song Cheng for two years, they met an old man leaning on a cloth bag, sitting on the steps and picking up books from the moon. When he asked what book he was looking for, he replied, "This ghost book." Gu Yue:' But who is the king?'
Yue: "The ear of marriage in the world." He asked what was in the bag and replied, "red rope ears." If you are husband and wife, and they are biological, you can use them. Although you are in an enemy's home, you are separated. and heaven remains our neighbourhood is an official and Wu Chu is a foreign land. This rope is tied and you can't break it. "
Translation:
A Ling Du scholar named Gu Wei passed by Song Cheng Inn in Nandian, Song Cheng. In the evening, he met an old man reading a marriage book in the moonlight. Wei Gu asked the old man curiously what books he read. The old man said, "The book of the underworld."
Wei Gu asked, "How can people from the underworld come here?"
The old man replied: "The marriage book of everyone in the world."
Wei Gu 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." Even if they were born into enemies, or they were separated from each other like heaven and earth, or one of them went to the ends of the earth to be an official to make a living, or they were in different towns and villages in Wu Chu, as long as this rope was tied, no one could escape. "
Later, at the request of Yue Lao, Wei Gu really married the daughter of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou.
Because this allusion happened in Nandian, Song Cheng, Li Fuyan, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, named this rumor "betrothal shop" and included it in the book "Continued Mystery Record" (formerly known as "Continued Mystery Record"), which was passed down from generation to generation and known to all men, women and children.
The story of "the old man under the moon" originated in the Tang Dynasty, which reflects people's cognitive attitude towards love and marriage.
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