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The Beautiful love on the Milky Way by Vicky Smith
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Nowadays, the Double Seventh Festival in China is always connected to the legend about Cowherd and Weaving Girl, which is a very beautiful love story through the ages to become one of China’s four folk love story. It was said there were two stars in the sky, one was the Weaving Girl, the other was Cowherd and they fell in love with each other. But the decrees of heaven didn’t allow them to fall in love privately. Since the Weaving Girl was the granddaughter of the Queen of Heaven, she ordered her to weave brocades continuously and demoted Cowherd to the earth. Besides, the Weaving Girl should use a magical silk to weave folds of beautiful clouds by a loom and the clouds will change their colors along with time and different seasons, which were called “the cloth of heaven”. Since the Cowherd was demoted, the Weaving Girl cried all day unhappily and missed him. She sat besides the loom and weaved beautiful brocades so as to deserve the Queen of Heaven’s compassion and then the Cowherd would return to the heaven quickly. One day, several fairies begged the Queen to allow them to visit the “green lotus pool” on earth. That day the Queen was happy and agreed with them. Upon seeing Weaving Girl crying all day, they begged the Queen to let them go with her and finally the Queen agreed. It was said that Cowherd made a living with his old bull. One day, the bull suddenly said to him, “Cowherd, you should go to the “green lotus pool” tonight, where there will be several fairies took a shower. You must hide red fairy clothing and the fairy who wears it will become your wife.” After hearing that, Cowherd felt strange and excited at the same time, so he asked it, “Are you truly able to talk? Is it true?” The old bull nodded. Hence, Cowherd hid himself silently in the rushes of the “green lotus pool” and waited for fairies. Afterwards, everything went as what the bull said and they got married and gave birth to a son and a daughter. Unfortunately, they were separated from each other by Queen, who ordered that they could meet each other once a year on the milky river in the heaven. Instead of constructing by stones, this river was built by magpies. Finally, if you are interested in Chinese stories or stones, you can visit our stonebtb.
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