The written content of Cowherd and Weaver Girl;
Once upon a time, there was a fairy named Weaver Girl in the sky and a cowherd named Cowherd on the ground. One day, the weaver girl came to the world and met the cowherd. They love each other and live together.
Later, the Queen Mother found out, took the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl back to heaven and locked them up respectively. Only on the seventh day of July every year can they be far away from each other. A group of crows sympathize with them and build bridges for them on that day every year so that they can meet again. From then on, July 7th is our Valentine's Day in China.
Folklore:
The myth of Cowherd and Weaver Girl has a very long history. In China's folk mythology, the cowherd and the weaver girl or the fairy couple belong to the four major folk oral legends in China.
It is said that there was a poor family in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is today's Shandong. My parents died early, and my brother lived by his brother and sister-in-law. He goes out to herd cattle every day, and people call him "Cowherd". Cowherd grew up gradually, and his sister-in-law never liked him, so she led the old cow to wander to a barren hill and settle down.
The origin of cattle is unusual. It is the Taurus star in the sky, and it was banished to the world because it violated the dogma. I feel that I was raised by Cowherd. Besides thanking him for his hard work, I also tried my best to fix a happy marriage for him. Finally, Taurus learned that several fairies in the sky often came to earth together and even bathed in the Mingjing Lake in the eastern valley.
So he had a dream for Cowherd at night. Cowherd went over the mountains in a suspicious way and caught a glimpse of seven stunning beauties playing in the lake in the fog, which made him feel uneasy. Immediately picked up a pink dress on the short tree and ran back. The fairy who has been robbed of her clothes and can't return to the sky is the Weaver Girl. That night, under the cover of darkness, she flapped the Cowherd's Chai Fei naked.
Under the dim light, one is a simple and honest, strong and handsome young farmer, and the other is a beautiful and gentle fairy in the sky. It was love at first sight, so on a spring night in two of a kind. In a blink of an eye for three years, the Weaver Girl has given birth to two children, a man and a woman, and the cow has died, leaving only a pair of horns hanging on the wall.
The fact that the Weaver Girl stole the mortal world without permission was finally known by the Emperor of Heaven, and the heavenly soldiers will take her back to the palace. Cowherd was heartbroken, thinking of the bull that gave him infinite help, and cried with his horn.
Unexpectedly, accidentally, the horn fell to the ground, and a miracle happened. The two corners became two laundry baskets. Cowherd put the two children in the laundry basket, ready to pick up his wife with one shoulder. A breeze blew, and two laundry baskets suddenly rose like two powerful wings and danced in the sky like lightning.
Seeing his wife in front, Cowherd tried to catch up, but was noticed by the Queen Mother. She tore off the golden hairpin from her head and drew a line between the cowherd and the weaver girl. Suddenly, a choppy and silvery river, one in Hedong and the other in Hexi, was far apart, but could not meet each other.
Magpie bird sympathizes with the true feelings of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Every summer and autumn, when the Milky Way is calm, they gather on the river, holding each other's mouths and tails, and build a magpie bridge to get together with the cowherd and the weaver girl. "Queqiao Cuigui River turns, and Zhinv Petunia meets at night." It is said that after Tanabata, magpies will lose a lot of feathers because the bridge is hard.