What are the names of the mythical seven fairies? What are they responsible for?

1. The mythical seven fairies are all called: Daxian, Erxian, Sanxian, Sixian, Wuxian, Liuxian and Qixian.

2. The director is picking mulberry, textile, colorful, women, melons and fruits, treasures and so on. However, there is no literature to introduce the specific functions of the seven fairies.

Since the Han Dynasty, there have been many records about the myth of the Seven Immortals. In the Ming dynasty, it was still common in traditional Chinese opera, but less in novels. Yong Dong's wife's name "Gucci" was first mentioned in the opera "Brocade".

The Journey to the West, a novel in Ming Dynasty, also mentioned the specific names of the Seven Immortals: "Red Immortal, Tsing Yi Immortal, plain clothes Immortal, Soap Immortal, Purple Immortal, Huang Xian, and Green Immortal", and thought that the Seven Immortals were dressed in seven colors, which seemed to be related to the seven colors.

Song and Yuan operas combined with folk tales of past dynasties formed a relatively complete drama such as "Immortal Couple" in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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The story of the seven fairies and Yong Dong:

According to legend, in the Han Dynasty, a poor man named Yong Dong sold his body to bury his father and sighed under an old locust tree. At this moment, a woman came over and asked him when she saw his sad face. I got a feeling when chatting, and got married with the old locust tree as the medium.

After the secret life of these two men was known to heaven, the Jade Emperor ordered the heavenly soldiers to descend to earth, seized Yong Dong, and brought the seven fairies back to heaven. In order not to hurt Yong Dong, the Seven Fairys had to say goodbye to her husband under the old pagoda tree. Since then, the husband and wife have never met again.

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