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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting on the magpie bridge. View of the night sky: Vega (Zhinü the weaver-girl) is at top left, Altair (Niulang the cowherd) at lower centre. The heavenly river separates them. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are characters found in Chinese mythology and appear eponymously in a romantic Chinese folk tale.
Zhinü is the goddess of weaving and the star Vega in Chinese mythology. She was the youngest of seven daughters of the Jade Emperor. It is believed that she weaved her father’s royal robes out of the clouds. [1] [2] [3] She is identified as the star Vega in the constellation Lyra.
Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727, when its declination will be +86° 14′. [19] Vega was the first star other than the Sun to have its image and spectrum photographed. [20] [21] It was one of the first stars whose distance was estimated through parallax measurements.
The inscription tells us the painting was done in early autumn in the year 1504. This is enough to identify her as the Weaver Girl from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, who were also the stars Altair and Vega. In tradition, they met and fell in love; but, carried away by the romance, she neglected her duty of weaving clouds.
Orihime (おりひめ, 織姫, "Weaver Girl") is the Japanese name for the star Vega, also known as Shokujosei (織女星, "Weaver Girl Star") in Japanese. Orihime may also refer to: the weaver girl from the Chinese folk tale The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd; the weaver girl celebrated in Tanabata, a Japanese festival
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The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Queen Mother and Jade Emperor, wove the stars and their light, known as "the Silver River" (what Westerners call "The Milky Way Galaxy"), for heaven and earth. She was identified with the star Westerners know as Vega.
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