Cowherd and Weaver Girl, a well-known folk love story of Han nationality in ancient China, is also one of the four major folk tales in China (the other three are Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall and the legend of the white snake), which comes from the star names of Cowherd and Vega. Legend has it that the granddaughter Weaver of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is very good at weaving, weaving rosy clouds for the sky every day.
She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to earth, married a cowherd in Hexi privately, and lived a life of farming and weaving. This angered the Emperor of Heaven, took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered them to separate, allowing them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Their unswerving love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet on the Tianhe River.
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The ancient astrology culture in China has a long history and is profound. In the ancient star official system of China, the star official of Altair consists of six stars, which are located on the east bank of the Milky Way, like two inverted triangles, which are very distinctive, but the triangle above is bigger and brighter. The small triangle below is located on the ecliptic. These stars make up a cow with two horns on its head but only three feet, so the ancients called it Petunia.
There are nine little stars to the south of this cow, which constitutes the Tian Tian, where it cultivates. Looking further south, near the southern horizon, "Jiukan" has nine stars, which is a lowland for storing water and irrigating farmland. The east of Niusu is next to the "Luo Yan" No.3 star, which is a water conservancy facility similar to a reservoir. The three stars of Vega are located in the north of Niusu, among which Vega I is the fifth brightest star in the whole day, second only to arcturus, so it is often called Vega directly. So "Altair" and "Vega" are collectively called the Altair and the Vega.