Who is the Weaver Girl?

The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother. The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is well known to women and children in our country. The weaver girl weaves clouds in the sky, and the cowherd is an ordinary person. His parents died when he was a child, and he lived alone with an old cow.

Weaver Girl, alias Tiansun, The fairy lady, Seven Sisters and Qiniang, together with the seven fairies, is called the Seven-Star Empress. The Weaver Girl is the heroine of the famous myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The traditional festival related to the Weaver Girl is Valentine's Day in China.

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The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originated from the worship of the stars by the ancients, and it was the result of people deifying and anthropomorphizing the stars in the sky. Cowherd and Weaver Girl are located in the east of the Milky Way, and the two stars face each other across the river, which makes people have endless reverie. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid originated in Chu State. In the Han Dynasty, with the development of astronomy, its legends became more extensive, concrete, vivid and vivid, and became important materials for painting and sculpture.

A large number of Han stone reliefs representing deep space appeared in Nanyang in Han Dynasty. Among them, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl constellation vividly combines stars with legends. With people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, festivals and customs about Altair and Vega, as well as sacrifices and blessings, existed thousands of years ago. After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with a beautiful love legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

Because it is endowed with the connotation related to love, it has become a festival symbolizing love. It is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China, and it also has the cultural significance of Valentine's Day in China.