1, Jumping Altair, Hehan girl. Skillful hands, make a loom. Source: Nineteen unknown translations of ancient poems by Altair in Han Dynasty: the distant and bright Altair, the bright and distant Vega. The weaver girl is waving her long white hands, and the loom keeps ringing.
2. During the day, it is as cool as water at night, lying and watching morning glory and Vega. Source: Tang's "Autumn Night" translation: The stone steps in the night are as cold as cold water, sitting in the bedroom staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
3, Petunia Weaver has passed the autumn, how much is still, I hate my intestines to shed tears. Source: Song Zhushu Zhen Translated Queqiao Fairy Tanabata: How many parting autumn has Petunia Weaver had, and how many painful tears have flowed.
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 stories in China. The other three are butterfly lovers, Meng Jiangnv Crying on 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.