牛郎织女鹊桥相会：七夕节英文故事动画版
牛郎织女鹊桥相会：七夕节英文故事动画版（中国风）
In the vast Milky Way, there are two very bright stars: Altair and Vega, or Cowherd and Weaver, as Chinese speakers call them. There is a poignant love legend about their origin in China. A long, long time ago, in a small picturesque village, an old ox suddenly started talking, telling his poor master a secret.
The old ox told Cowherd that tomorrow evening, if a man went to the valley and hid by the hot spring where the seven fairies bathed, and found the light purple clothes of one of those fairies and hid them away, she would be his destined match.
In the evening of the next day, though feeling doubtful,Cowherd followed the ox’s instructions and came to the hot springs valley, Cowherd did what the ox said, and stole the clothes. But righteous Cowherd didn’t dare to even have a glimpse of the fairies’ bathing. By evening, after hiding the clothes, suddenly he felt he was being a bit mean and totally regretted.
They split up and looked for a long time, but didn’t find them, and their allotted time on earth ran out. Without her fairy clothes, Weaver Maid could not fly back to heaven. She had no choice but to let her sisters go on first and continue to look for them herself.
Love is always so unexpected and with no reason. Although Cowherd stole her clothes, Weaver Maid inexplicably fell in love with this straightforward and poor boy at first sight. After spending a happy time with Cowherd, she married him with sweet willingness. Although he was immortal, Cowherd planted crops, Weaver Maid wove cloth, and together they made a living.
Three years passed and they had two children. Although they were living a life of poverty, their family felt joyful and happy. Though three years have passed on earth, only three days have passed in heaven. After three days, the Queen Mother of Heaven discovered Weaver Maid had not only not returned to heaven, but had married and had children in the mortal world.
Immediately angry, she ordered a troop to escort her daughter back to heaven. That day, Cowherd was working in the fields as usual. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning and a peel of thunder, and the sky had a weird appearance. He felt very uneasy, and his heart sank.
Without a thought for anything else, he rushed home, but it was already too late…When Cowherd had lost the will to live, His old ox spoke again and said he was about to die and to use his skin as a cloak, as it would enable Cowherd to fly to heaven to find his wife. The old ox fell down dead right after saying these words.
The Queen Mother of Heaven saw that the whole universe was moved by their true love and so she could not bear to hinder them further. The Queen Mother of Heaven allowed the magpies to form a bridge across the Silver River every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, so that Cowherd and Weaver Maid could be reunited once a year.
When Cowherd and Weaver Maid died, they turned into the stars called Cowherd and Weaver Maid, looking at each other forever on each side of the Silver River. Later, in memory of their beautiful love story, Chinese people made the day of their reunion: the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar：China’s Valentine’s Day or the Double Seven Festival （QiXi Festival）.
