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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.
The festival is derived from Chinese mythology: people celebrate the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang, [5] [2] [4] who were the weaver girl and the cowherd, respectively. The tale of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han dynasty. [6]
Zhinü was the seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor.One day she came down to Earth and, while bathing in a river, met Niulang, a cowherd.Niulang was so amazed by her beauty that he instantly fell in love with her and stole her clothes. [4]
Niulang was reincarnated as a cowherd on earth who lost his parents at a young age and lived with his older brother and sister-in-law, and their story begins. Zhinü and Niulang, by the Japanese painter Tsukioka Yoshitoshi The painting of Niulang - Zhinü in the book Vân tiên cổ tích truyện of the Nguyễn dynasty by Lê Đức Trạch
In late imperial times, however, the Weaver Girl was replaced in this legend by the Seventh Fairy, so as to avoid hints of infidelity because the Weaver Girl is also a protagonist in another old legend, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. (There have also been attempts to present Dong Yong as an incarnation of the Cowherd. [7])
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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.
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