Category:The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

The Weaver Girl and  the Cowherd is a Chinese folk tale  the general tale is a love story between zhinu  the Weaver girl symbolizing vega  and niulang the Cowherd  symbolizing Altair their love  was not a allowed  thus they banished to the opposite sides of the Silver River symbolizing  the Milky Way only on the year of the seven day of  the seven lunar moth a flock of magpies will form a bridge to reunite  the lovers for one day there are many versions of the story the earliest know reference to famous myth dates back to  over 2600 year ago which was told in a poem from the classic of poetry