1000 words on the culture of Shanxi merchants

There are many traditional cultures in China, such as setting off firecrackers in spring, eating dumplings with Spring Festival couplets on the Lantern Festival, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and falling in love on Valentine's Day. ...

Now let me talk about Valentine's Day. We can meet in love! A long time ago, there was a boy named Niulang. Later, when his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. My brother and sister-in-law are mean to Cowherd and want to separate from him. They only gave him an old cow and a broken car, and the rest were monopolized by his brother and sister-in-law, and then they separated from the cowherd. Since then, the cowherd and the old cow have lived together. Except for the old cow who can't talk, Cowherd is the only one in the deserted family, and life is quite lonely. The cowherd doesn't know that the old cow is the Taurus in the sky. On this day, the old cow suddenly spoke and said to the cowherd, "Cowherd, today you go to Bilianchi, where some fairies are taking a bath." You hide that red fairy costume, and the fairy in the red fairy costume will become your wife. " Cowherd was surprised and happy when he saw the old cow talking, so he asked, "Niu Ge, can you really talk?" Is it true what you said? "The old cow nodded, and the cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside Bilianchi, waiting for the arrival of the fairies.

After a while, the fairies really floated in, took off their light clothes and jumped into the clear stream. The cowherd ran out of the reeds and took the red fairy's clothes. When the fairies saw someone coming, they quickly put on their clothes and flew away like birds, leaving only the fairies who could not escape without clothes. She is a weaver girl. Seeing that her fairy clothes were taken away by a young man, the Weaver Girl was ashamed and anxious, but she was helpless. At this moment, Cowherd came over and told her that he could not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. The weaver girl looked intently and realized that the cowherd was the cow she missed day and night, so she shyly agreed to him. In this way, the Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd. After they got married, they worked hard, loved each other and lived a very happy life. Soon, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, very cute. Cowherd and Weaver Girl thought they could be together for life and grow old together. One day, the weaver girl was cooking, and the cowherd hurried back from the fields, his eyes red and swollen. He told the Weaver Girl, "Niu Ge is dead. Before he died, he asked me to peel off his cowhide and put it away. One day, I can wear it and fly to the sky.