Venus is the planet with the closest orbit to the Earth in the solar system. So visually it is the brightest star in the whole day. When it appears in the eastern sky at dawn, we call it "the morning star"; When it appears in the southwest sky in the evening, we call it "Chang Geng Xing". Recently, this star is particularly bright in cold and sunny weather.
people who live in cities seem to be farther away from the starry sky. Because the starry sky belongs to pure natural space and time. And the city is full of material civilization created by human beings. All kinds of lights are enough to illuminate people's way home; All kinds of information are enough to occupy people's extra time and space. People who can see and pay attention to the stars in the city probably have a long experience of rural life like me.
In the era when there is no electric light, only the moon and the stars can bring light to human beings at night. Therefore, even people without a little knowledge know Spoon Star (Big Dipper), Vega, Altair, Hunter Star (Orion) and so on. And Tianhe (Milky Way). As the saying goes, "North and South of the Tianhe River, children don't sleep with their mothers". That is to say, when the brightest part of Tianhe runs north-south, summer comes and the weather is too hot.
Fairy stories may be associated by people looking at the stars in this way.
when I was a child, an elder sister of my family told many folk stories. Including myths and legends about the stars and the moon. Sleeping with her at night, she can tell stories all night without sleeping (unfortunately, I forgot). All her stories come from her grandmother-my name is Third Grandma. Third Daughter-in-law doesn't know a word, and she doesn't take charge. She has only one task for the rest of her life, helping her two sons to look after more than a dozen grandchildren. She doesn't think her grandson is like today's grandparents, but also a bottle and water; It's a schoolbag and a scooter. She only needs to find a sunny place in winter and a shady place in summer, and just sit there and watch a few children, so long as she doesn't lose them.
Because of the simplicity of life, Third Grandma remembered the stories told by her grandparents. It is also because of the simple days that she can tell these stories and legends to her grandchildren.
today, it's a chaotic world, and almost no one around has been to school or read books. But in the chaotic world, there are stories and legends.
Venus is still bright tonight.