Today is Qixi Festival in China, also known as Qiqiao Festival, and sometimes it will be called "Chinese Valentine's Day".Qixi Festival is originated from a romantic legend - The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd.
The story is about a love story between Zhinü the weaver girl and Niulang the cowherd. Niulang was an orphan who lived with his eld brother. Because his sister-in-law was very mean and always abused him, so Niulang moved out of his elder brother's house and lived with a old cow.
One day Zhinü and her sisters who lived in heavenly palace came down to the world for fun and took shower in a river happily.The old cow which seemd could sense some magic power told Niulang that if faires can't back to the heavenly palace before dawn, then they have to stayed in moral world.Therefore Niulang hided around the river and he gradually fell in love with the youngest fairy girl Zhinü. He reminded what the old cow told him before, so he took Zhinü's clothes away. Zhinü found her clothes was lost when her sisters ready to back the heavenly palace, so she had to stayed and met Niulang at that time.They liked each other after a talk, hence she married to Niulang.Niulang plowed the fields and Zhinü wove cloth,they had a very happy marriage since that.But unfortunatly,emperor of heaven known they got marriage and already had a son and a daughter.According to the laws of God in heaven, immorals mustn't be marriaged with ordinary person, so the emperor sent many divine troops came down to the moral world and took Zhinü back to heavenly palace. SO they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River and Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day.
Wish you have a nice and happy day with your love in this romantic festival.
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