The twenty-four solar terms, known as China's fifth great invention, is of great significance in China. In ancient times, it played a vital guiding role in agriculture. Many of the 24 solar terms have legends in the folk. May 21 is the Xiaoman solar term in 2019. What are the legends of the Xiaoman solar term in the folk? This article brings you the legend of the 24 solar terms. Let's have a look. The legend of Xiaoman in the twenty-four solar terms
Once upon a time, there was a family with only father and daughter. The daughter is not only beautiful, but also very smart. That day, my father had something to go far away, leaving his daughter and a white horse. The horse is very strong. It runs thousands of miles a day and is as fast as the wind. What's more strange is that this horse knows human nature very well. It knows human words. Everyone says this is a 'god horse'.
When the father went out, he told his daughter to carefully feed and love the horse, and he would come back soon. After his father left, the only thing left in the family was the horse to accompany his daughter. Whenever she felt lonely, she talked to the horse. Although the horse can't speak, it can nod its head, shake its tail and show a very friendly look. The days passed, but my father never came back. The daughter misses her father very much and is more worried about what happens to her father in an affair.
One day, half seriously and half jokingly, she said to the horse, 'horse, do you understand me? If you can go and get my father back, I'll marry you as my wife. " Unexpectedly, as soon as the girl's voice fell, the horse ran away and disappeared. It turned out that my father was ill in the distance. He was worried about how to go back, but he suddenly found that his horse came running. He was very surprised. The father was so anxious about his daughter that he couldn't think much about it, so he got on his horse and rode home.
When I got home, I was very happy when my father and daughter met for a long time. Father felt that the horse had made great contributions, so he added grass and materials and carefully fed it. But to his father's surprise, he fed a lot of fine grass and fine materials, but the horse refused to eat a mouthful. Whenever he saw his daughter go in and out, the horse would not only lead his neck and roar, but also jump and make a sound of joy or anger. The father secretly asked his daughter what was going on. So the daughter told her father what she had said to the horse.
After hearing this, the father felt very uneasy. After thinking for a while, he whispered to his daughter, 'remember, this matter must not be publicized. What would it be like to let people know that I married my daughter to a horse? Don't go out of the house or to the horse for the time being. " The next day, my father put crossbows and arrows around the stable and shot the horse to death while it was unprepared. Then he skinned the horse and hung it on a big stone in the yard.
One day, my daughter was playing in the yard with her neighbor's girlfriend. She was very upset when she saw the horse skin on the stone. She reached out and touched the mane on the horse skin. At this time, an accident happened. The horse's skin suddenly lifted and swept her away like a gust of wind. The female companions on the side were frightened and hurried to tell her father. When the father came, the daughter and the horse skin on the stone had disappeared.
It turned out that god horse skin took away the lovely girl and flew straight to the southwest. In the far southwest, there is a place called big heel, which is a deserted wilderness full of mulberry trees. But when she got there, the girl in horseskin lost her original shape and became a silkworm in the shape of a horse's head climbing a tree. She eats nothing but mulberry leaves. Later, she became the master of the mulberry forest, and the emperor of heaven made her the silkworm God.
In the face of this encounter, the girl has unspeakable difficulties. She misses her hometown day and night and misses her father and girlfriend. Whenever this time, she will continue to spit out filaments from her mouth, reposing her endless thoughts. Every spring, you can see a beautiful young woman kneeling on the branches of mulberry trees, spitting out white and bright filaments in her mouth. People affectionately call her silkworm god girl.
It is said that the silkworm god girl was born on the day of 'Xiaoman', so there will be a custom of sacrificing silkworm in this solar term.