{"id":6592,"date":"2019-11-20T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/cowherd-and-weaving-girl-niu-lang-zhi-nv\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:54:14","slug":"cowherd-and-weaving-girl-niu-lang-zhi-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/cowherd-and-weaving-girl-niu-lang-zhi-nv\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowherd and Weaving Girl \u725b\u90ce\u7ec7\u5973"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl  is one of the four most famous folktales of ancient China. It is a  classic love story between a fairy and a human being and has a  widespread influence. The Qixi Festival is said to have something to do  with the fairy tale. Naturally, the seventh day of every seventh mo<em><\/em>nth  of the lunar calendar has become Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is a love story between  the Cowherd, a human being, and the Weaving Girl, a fairy. They fall in  love with each other, get married, forced to separate and blocked by the  Milky Way. Out of compassion for them, on the seventh day of the  seventh lunar mo<em><\/em>nth each year, flocks of magpies fly to form a bridge  with their bodies over the Milky Way, allowing the Cowherd and the  Weaving Girl to meet each other. This story, to some extent, reflects  Chinese people&#8217;s wishes to pursue the freedom of love and marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl has made the Qixi  Festival the most romantic traditio<em><\/em>nal Chinese festival. Countless poems  in Chinese history are in praise of the story, the most famous works  being the ancient poem of the Han Dynasty Far in the Skies Is the  Cowherd Star, Qixi by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty and Fairy On the Magpie  Bridge by the great ci writer Qin Guan of the Song Dynasty. In addition,  traditio<em><\/em>nal Chinese operas like Beijing Opera and Shaanxi opera etc  have plays a<em><\/em>bout the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl.<\/p>\n<p>The fairy tale also co<em><\/em>ntains Chinese people&#8217;s understanding a<em><\/em>bout  star images. In the tale, the Weaver Girl Star (the Vega) is the  brightest star in the co<em><\/em>nstellation Lyra, facing the Cowherd Star (the  Altair), the brightest star in the co<em><\/em>nstellation Aquila, across the  Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl can be  seen as a story enjoying equal im<em><\/em>portance as the Greek myths of Odyssey,  Jason, the Argo<em><\/em>nauts and the Golden Fleece and the ancient European  legend of The Ring of the Nibelung etc. On the seventh day of the  seventh mo<em><\/em>nth of the lunar calendar every year, Chinese women  customarily look up into the night sky, searching for the Weaver Girl  Star and the Cowherd Star on both sides of the Milky Way and hoping to  see their annual gathering. Meanwhile, girls on the ground hope to have  clever hands and good sense, just like the Weaving Girl. They also pray  for a happy marriage of their own. Thus, the Qixi Festival has been  entrenched in Chinese culture<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1710145531\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl  is one of the four most famous folktales of ancient China. It is a  classic love story between a fairy and a human being and has a  widespread influence. The Qixi Festival is said to have something to do  with the fairy tale. Naturally, the seventh day of every seventh month  of the lunar calendar has become Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2838],"tags":[44,126,118,135],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales","tag-chinese-culture","tag-chinese-opera","tag-culture","tag-traditional-chinese"],"views":172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}