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[idiom explanation]? The god in charge of human marriage in myths and legends. Later it refers to the name of the matchmaker.
[idiom source]? Tang "Continued Mystery Record Engagement Shop" records; Wei Gu passed by Song Cheng when he was young; In the moonlight, I saw an old man leaning on his schoolbag and turning over a book. Wei Gu asked what books to read; He said this is a marriage book for everyone in the world; And said that there is a "red rope" in the bag; Tied to the feet of men and women in the dark; Let them be husband and wife. Article 28 of Lao Zhang's Philosophy: "Lao Long refused to write a marriage book! He also has his reasons; They believe in religion and do not serve God. And a childless queen; Like the old man under the moon! "
[pronunciation]? Month; You can't pronounce "Yu".
[shape recognition]? Old; Can't write "Mu".
[near meaning]? Matchmaker's words are a perfect match.
[usage]? Refers to the matchmaker. Generally used as subject, object and attribute.
[structure]? Too formal.
[example]? How many lovers want to give them a "red rope" to get married.
[Idiom Story] In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Wei Gu who traveled to Song Cheng and lived in Nandian.
One night, Wei Gu was wandering in the street and saw an old man sitting on the floor in the moonlight, turning over a big, thick book, while his body was woven with a big cloth bag full of red ropes.
Wei Gu was curious and asked him, "Uncle, what are you reading?"
The old man replied, "This is a book that records the marriage between men and women in the world."
Hearing this, Wei Gu became more curious and then asked, "What's the red rope in your bag for?"
The old man smiled and said to Wei Gu, "These red ropes are used to tie husband and wife's feet. Whether men and women live far apart or far apart, as long as I tie these red ropes to their feet, they will make up and become husband and wife. "
Hearing this, Wei Gu naturally didn't believe it, thinking that the old man was joking with him, but he was still full of curiosity about this strange old man. When he wanted to ask him some questions, the old man stood up, took his book and bag and walked to the rice market. Wei Gu followed him.
When they arrived at the rice market, they saw a blind woman and a little girl about three years old coming face to face. The old man said to Wei Gu, "The little girl in the blind girl's hand is still your future wife."
Wei Gu was very angry when he heard this. He thought the old man was joking with him, so he asked Ganu to kill the little girl to see if he would become his wife in the future.
The domestic slave ran forward, stabbed the girl and ran away at once. When Wei Gu tried to get back at the old man, he was gone.
Time flies. Fourteen years have passed in an instant. At this time, Wei Guyi found a satisfactory object and was about to get married. The other party is the apple of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou. He is beautiful, but he has no scars. Wei Gu felt very strange, so he asked his father-in-law, "Why is there a scar on his eyebrows?"
After hearing this, Xiangzhou secretariat said, "It's irritating. Fourteen years ago, one day in Song Cheng, nanny Chen carried him through the rice market. A fanatic stabbed her for no reason. Fortunately, her life was not in danger, leaving only this scar. What a great misfortune! "
Wei Gu listen, paused. The past 14 years ago quickly came to his mind. He thought, is he the little girl who ordered the servant to assassinate him? So he asked nervously, "Is that nanny blind?"
Wang Tai was very interested in seeing his son-in-law, so he asked him strangely, so he asked him, "Yes, she is blind, but how do you know?"
Wei Gu confirmed all these times, and he was really surprised. For a moment, he couldn't answer. It took a long time to calm down, and then he told the whole story of meeting the old man under the moon in Song Cheng fourteen years ago.
Wang Tai was also surprised.
Wei Gu realized that what the old man said under the moon was not a joke. Their marriage was really decided by God.
Therefore, the couple cherish this marriage more and live a loving life.
It soon spread to Song Cheng, where the locals changed Nandian into an "engagement shop" to commemorate the appearance of the elderly under the moon.
Because of the spread of this story, everyone believes that the combination of men and women is tied by the old man under the moon with a red rope, so later generations call the matchmaker "the old man under the moon" or "the old man under the moon" for short. The encyclopedia is explained as follows:
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The old man under the moon, also known as the old man under the moon, is a figure in myths and legends and is in charge of human marriage. According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, Wei Gu met the old man under the moon in Song Cheng, and the old man under the moon pointed out the marriage partner for Wei Gu. Later, Wei Gu responded to the old man's words and really married the daughter of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou. The story has spread to this day, making future generations believe that the combination of men and women is made by Yue Lao, because the media is also called Yue Lao.
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Interpretation [back to the directory] The old man under the moon is the god who specializes in marriage in China myths and legends, also known as "the old man under the moon". According to Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life, "Holding HongLing in one hand, signing a book in the other, being a child, Mercedes-Benz is driving in the smoke." There are temples for the elderly in many places in our country. Tang Li Fuyan's "Continued Mystery, betrothal shop" records that in the Tang Dynasty, he passed by Song Cheng and met an old man reading his marriage book in the moonlight. Refers to the matchmaker.
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Cao Qingxue Qin's Dream of Red Mansions, the 57th time: "If the old people under the moon don't tie them with red lines, they can't go to one place." The third fold of Ming's "Jurchen View": "You have the right to be the relative of the old man with the mountain under the moon. My two titles have made a peach blossom and a phoenix."
It's a pair of beautiful women and talented people. Although it is overseas, it is also a country with unlimited wealth. Besides, the lucky chance is tied by the red rope of the old man under the moon, so don't be suspicious. ★ The 12th time of Chen's Water Margin
Don. Li Fuyan's Continued Records records that Wei Gu of the Tang Dynasty passed by Song Cheng when he was young and saw an old man sitting in the moonlight, turning over a book in his hand. Wei Gu asked him what this book was, and he said it was a marriage book for everyone. He asked what was in the bag, and he said it was a red rope that tied the couple's feet. Later, the god in charge of marriage was called the old man under the moon or the old man under the moon, and also served as the agent of the matchmaker.
Canon source [back to the directory] Li Tang Yanfu "Continue the mysterious record". An engagement shop: "Wei Gu didn't take it. On his second trip to Song Cheng, he met an old man sitting on his bag and asked the moon for books. A:' This quiet book.' Gu Yue:' But who is the king?' Said,' The age of marriage in the world.' When asked about the red rope in the bag, he said,' This is the couple's foot. Although the enemy is in a foreign country, this rope will not be easy. "
Allusions [back to the directory] There was a man named Wei Gu in the Tang Dynasty who traveled to Song Cheng and lived in Nandian. One night, Wei Gu walked out of Nandian and saw something under the slanting moon.
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An old man leaned against a cloth bag and sat on the steps, reading by moonlight. Wei Gu approached curiously. The old man told Wei Gu that the secretary carries the marriage of men and women all over the world, and the red rope in the bag is used to tie the feet of men and women who are destined to get married in the future. The old man also told Wei Gu that his wife was a three-year-old girl in the arms of a blind woman selling vegetables in the market. Wei Gu was very unhappy and felt that the blind little girl was not worthy of herself at all. Wei Gu was very angry. He sent someone to assassinate the little girl, but the man missed and only scratched her eyebrows. In a blink of an eye, fourteen years later, Wei Gu married the eye of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou. She is beautiful, but she often wears a flower on her forehead and never takes it off in the shower. Wei Gu felt very strange, so he urged his wife. The wife said, "When I was a child, my nanny took me to the market. I was assassinated by a crazy thief and left a knife mark, so I covered it with flowers." Hearing this, Wei Gu suddenly remembered the past 14 years ago and asked nervously, "Is that nanny blind? The wife replied, "Yes! Wei Gu was surprised, remembering what the old man said under the moon that year, he deeply felt that the marriage between men and women was really destiny takes a hand, and no one could change it. This story spread to Song Cheng, and local officials in Song Cheng called Nandian "betrothal shop". Because the old man under the moon in the story is the person in charge of human marriage, the idiom "the old man under the moon" evolved from here and used to refer to the god in charge of the marriage between men and women. Also refers to the matchmaker. written proof
"Water Margin": "They are a pair of beautiful women and talented people. Although it is overseas, it is also the wealth of a country. Besides, the lucky chance is tied by the red rope of the old man under the moon, so don't be suspicious. 」
"A Dream of Red Mansions. Back to the five or seven dynasties: "since ancient times, a thousand miles of marriage is a line." There is an old man in charge of marriage. It was destined that he would only trip the two men's feet with a HongLing. 」
Six chapters of a floating life. Volume one. "Boudoir Joy": "The old man devoted himself to the marriage under the moon. The husband and wife have married in this life, and the marriage in the next life also depends on divine power. 」
Heroes of Children. The ninth story ":"Could it be that he has this marriage in mind, and it is difficult for him to talk about it, but he knows how to build a plank road and secretly settle my affairs first, so that he can rely on my parents to provide for his old age next month? 」
Children the legend of heroes. The 26th time: "Today's happy event is not only a media event, but also a matchmaker in pairs. Besides, there are old people under the moon. 」
Usage [back to the directory] is too formal; As subject, object and attribute; The story of the matchmaker
One,
Semantic interpretation refers to the god in charge of the marriage between men and women.
Usage category is used in the expression of "God of Marriage".
example sentence
Many unmarried men and women went to the temple to pray for a beautiful marriage to the elderly under the moon.
In the folk concept, if you want a happy marriage, you must ask the elderly under the moon for help.
They thought that this marriage was promoted by the elderly under the moon, so they came to this temple to make a wish after marriage.
After many twists and turns, they got married. Maybe there is an old man under the moon to fix them up.
Second,
Semantic description refers to the matchmaker.
Usage category is used in the expression of "marriage matchmaker".
example sentence
Thanks to the birth of an old man this month, they can finally get married.
They invited the manager to be an old man under the moon and arranged the marriage.
We can get married, and we really should thank him for matchmaking.
Coincidentally, I inadvertently played the old man under the moon and brought the couple together.
Lao She's philosophy of Lao Zhang: "They don't dedicate their religion to God any more than they do to their descendants."
Synonym [back to the directory] Matchmaker's words, perfect match.
Legend [Back to Table of Contents]
Legend has it that in the fairy's home, there was an old man for a month, specializing in human marriage. Legend has it that whoever can get married is old under the moon.
People tied their feet with red ropes in advance, so many people gave him statues and temples for protection. 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 man named Wei Gu who lost his parents in his teens and always wanted to get married and start a family as soon as possible. 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 person is destined to enjoy the title, and it is because of her that you can become a county magistrate. How can you kill him? " Then the old man disappeared.
When Wei Gu returned to the shop, he sharpened his knife and gave it to his servant. He said, "You can always do things. If you kill that girl for me, I will reward you with 10 thousand yuan. " The servant agreed. The next day, the servant came to the market with a knife on his body and stabbed the girl in the crowd. The whole market is a sensation. The servant fled back in a frenzy. Q: "Did you get it?" The servant said, "I want to stab her in the heart." 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" or "the old man under the moon" for short. His temples and statues are everywhere.
According to legend, in the second Tang Dynasty, a man named Wei Gu once traveled to Song Cheng and stayed in Nandian. One night, Wei Gu was wandering in the street and saw an old man sitting on the floor in the moonlight, turning over a big, thick book, while his body was woven with a big cloth bag full of red ropes.
Wei Gu was curious and asked him, "Uncle, what are you reading?"
The old man replied, "This is a book that records the marriage between men and women in the world."
Hearing this, Wei Gu became more curious and then asked, "What's the red rope in your bag for?"
The old man smiled and said to Wei Gu, "These red ropes are used to tie husband and wife's feet. No matter whether men and women are enemies or far away, as long as I tie these red ropes to their feet, they will definitely make up and form a husband and wife. "
Hearing this, Wei Gu naturally didn't believe it, thinking that the old man was joking with him, but he was still full of curiosity about this strange old man. When he wanted to ask him some questions, the old man stood up, took his book and bag and walked to the rice market. Wei Gu followed him.
When they arrived at the rice market, they saw a blind woman and a little girl about three years old coming face to face. The old man said to Wei Gu, "The little girl in the blind girl's hand is still your future wife."
Wei Gu was very angry and thought that the old man was joking with him on purpose, so he asked the domestic slave to kill the little girl to see if he would become his wife in the future.
The domestic slave ran forward, stabbed the girl and ran away at once. When Wei Gu tried to get back at the old man, he was gone.
Time flies. Fourteen years have passed in an instant. At this time, Wei Gu has found a satisfactory object and is about to get married. The other party is the apple of Wang Tai, the secretariat of Xiangzhou. He is beautiful, but he has a scar on his forehead. Wei Gu felt very strange, so he asked his father-in-law, "Why is there a scar between his eyebrows?"
After hearing this, Xiangzhou secretariat said, "It's irritating. Fourteen years ago, one day in Song Cheng, nanny Chen carried him through the rice market. A fanatic stabbed her for no reason. Fortunately, her life was not in danger, leaving only this scar. What a great misfortune! "
Wei Gu listen, paused. The past 14 years ago quickly came to his mind. He thought, is he the little girl who ordered the servant to assassinate him? So he asked nervously, "Is that nanny blind?"
Wang Tai was very interested in seeing his son-in-law, so he asked him strangely, so he asked him, "Yes, she is blind, but how do you know?"
After Wei Gu confirmed it, he was really surprised. For a moment, he couldn't answer. It took a long time to calm down, and then he told the whole story about the old man who met the moon in Song Cheng fourteen years ago.
Wang Tai was also surprised.
Wei Gu realized that what the old man said under the moon was not a joke. Their marriage was really decided by God.
Therefore, the couple cherish this marriage more and live a loving life.
It soon spread to Song Cheng, where the locals changed Nandian into an "engagement shop" to commemorate the appearance of the elderly under the moon.
Because of the spread of this story, everyone believes that the combination of men and women is tied by the old man under the moon with a red rope, so later generations call the matchmaker "the old man under the moon" or "the old man under the moon" for short.
The artistic view of the fate of marriage and love [back to the directory] Under the moon, the old people tied together with red ropes to determine the marriage of men and women, which embodies the fatalistic view of marriage in the Tang Dynasty and is one of the manifestations of the fatalistic view of marriage in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Tang people, one's destiny cannot be decided and changed by oneself. "Everything in the world is predetermined" (Li Bi's Sense of Consciousness), "Everything that happens to people is determined by fate" (Wang) and "People are determined by nature" (Han Quan's Continued Life Record).
Of course, this preconceived idea of the Tang people is also manifested in marriage and love, that is, "when you get married, your life is settled and you can't ask for it" (continued mystery. Mrs. Zheng is the wife), "The way of husband and wife is also a long-term way" ("Yutang Gossip". Garden baby girl ").
The appearance of the image of Yue Lao is precisely the artistry and visualization of this view of fate in the field of marriage and love. In fact, before Li Fuyan's The Persistent Mystery. There is a similar image in the novels of the Tang Dynasty. Dave's Guang Yi Ji. Geng Yan cloud:
Seeing his extraordinary vision, he said that Geng held a pot of wine from outside, taking wine as the guest first, and the guest did not dare to accept it, so he resolutely returned because of acacia. Wine is full of joy,
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But stay in the same room. In the middle of the night, I greeted each other and saluted. The guest replied, "I am not a human being, but a local Cao Er. The local government regards the marriage in Hebei as a stumbling block." Ren Xu looked at his clothes and saw the rope in the bag, so he didn't believe it. Here, Cao Di, who calls himself a "guest", that is, "the main wedding in Hebei", also uses the rope in the bag to "trip the feet of men and women" to decide the marriage of men and women in the world. It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, it was a popular and universal concept to decide before marriage and take charge of the underworld. Men and women in the world can become husband and wife because underworld officials are bound by ropes, which is the fate of the world.
But more poetically, the old man tied a rope under the moon to define the image of marriage, so it spread more widely and became a reality, and the old man under the moon became a household name among the people.
[Back to Directory] It's true to praise HongLing. Yue Lao and Cao Di of Geng Yan in the betrothal shop tied the feet of men and women with ropes to get married, which is an intuitive presentation of the concept of fate in the novels of the Tang Dynasty. Although this string of men's and women's feet is imaginary by the novelist, it is also wonderful. I think that the arrangement of holding red ribbons when men and women worship their parents in ancient wedding ceremonies probably evolved from this.
In fact, in the real life of the Tang Dynasty, there has been a record of choosing a spouse by tying a rope. Wang Renyu's Heritage "Kaiyuan Tianbao" (Volume)
This is the case with Guo's choice of wife in "Taking a Wife in HongLing": Guo was beautiful and talented when he was young, and Prime Minister Zhang wanted to be his husband. Yuan Zhen said, "I know there are five women in the imperial court, and I don't know who is ugly. We should not rush, but wait patiently. " Zhang Yue said, "My daughters have their own beauty, but they don't know who the puppet is. They are very human. I want five girls to hold a little each, and I can take it in front of the curtain, and the winner is my husband. " Yuan Zhen readily obeyed, so she took a red silk thread and got her third daughter, which was very beautiful, and then she really followed her husband.
"Mountain Hall Examination" also records that Zhang has five daughters. Guo didn't know who to marry, so he used HongLing to choose them. This is the so-called "HongLing knot". Of course, this fact is based on hearsay (Hong Mai's "Rong Zhai Essays" can be seen in the simplified book), but it can also be seen that this kind of marriage concept and custom is produced and evolved among the people.
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