The story is set between Niu Su and Vega in the sky. In the story, Cowherd is a young and hardworking farmer, living a poor but happy life. One day, he came to a pond to take a bath and found a group of goddesses playing in it. Excited, he stole the clothes of a heavenly girl and a weaver girl. One of the weavers was not afraid, but took the initiative to communicate with the cowherd. From then on, the two met and fell in love, and decided to settle down for life.
However, the gods do not allow marriage between man and god. When the Emperor of Heaven learned of this situation, he was very angry and decided to take the Weaver Girl back to heaven and forbid them to meet. Cowherd is very sad. He tried his best to find the Weaver Girl and finally learned that he could only see her on the seventh day of July (Valentine's Day in China).
The Legend of Cowherd-Ancient Records
Chen Shuaifo, chairman of the China Yijing Association, believes that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are the most famous Han folklore in China and the earliest story about the stars among the people in China.
There is a passage in Shuo Wen Jie Zi written by Fang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "There are beautiful women in Hedong, the sons of the Emperor of Heaven, and sewing workers who work hard year after year to weave clothes of clouds and silks. Hard work is extremely unhappy, and the appearance is too messy to tidy up. God pitied him for being alone and married the morning glory in Hexi. Since then, the work of weaving has been abolished and greed has been achieved. When the emperor was angry, the responsibility went to Hedong, and they met once a year. The heavenly emperor here is not the jade emperor, because the legend of the Weaver Girl is much earlier than the belief of the jade emperor in the Song Dynasty. ).
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cowherd