The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are a couple-the husband sings with the woman, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are born once a year.
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Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a famous folk love story of Han nationality in ancient China, and it is also one of the four major folk legends in China. The other three are butterfly lovers, Meng Jiangnv, Crying for the Great Wall and Legend of the White Snake. Star names derived from Altair and Vega. Legend has it that the granddaughter Weaver of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is very good at weaving, weaving rosy clouds for the sky every day.
She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to earth, married a cowherd in Hexi privately, and lived a life of farming and weaving. This angered the Emperor of Heaven, took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered them to separate, allowing them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Their unswerving love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet on the Tianhe River.
The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl contains the classic romance and also reflects the precious and tortuous love. We believe that on both sides of the Tianhe River, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been silently guarding each other, witnessing the precious spirit of "life is precious, love is more expensive" and inspiring the determination and courage of young men and women to pursue beautiful love.
The earliest record of Cowherd and Weaver Girl in China ancient books is Xiao Ya Dadong in The Book of Songs, but it is only said that Weaver Girl and Petunia are two similar stars in Tianhe, and there is no connection between them. It was not until the Han Dynasty that these two stars were converted into concrete numbers. Ban Gu said in "Two Capitals Fu": "Facing Kunming Pool, cows are led on the left and girls are woven on the right, just like boundless clouds."
It means that there are two stone statues of Petunia and Weaver Girl by the pool in Kunming, Han Palace. The earliest literary work that recorded Cowherd and Weaver Girl were husband and wife was Selected Poems of Luoshen. The article said: "The Cowherd is the husband, the Weaver Girl is the woman, and the Weaver Girl is the star of the Cowherd. It will take some time on July 7. " From this perspective, the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is not original, but gradually understood by the ancients.