The cowherd story
There's a legend and a Altair vega. Weaver and Petunia are. But the law is not allowed two day individual who fell in love. She is her granddaughter, Queen Mother of the Petunia censureddescends to earth, and ordered the Vega woven brocade as punishment.
Since the morning glory is censureddescends to earth, was often in tears, bend the brows miss petunia. She sat beside kept weaving loom with beautiful brocade expecting her was wroth with compassion, Petunia early return to heaven.
A day and a few fairy begged the queen said want to go on a visit to the world of the green lotus pool, the Queen Mother mood today, just promised them. They see Weaver are not happy the whole day sitting brocade weaving, to the queen to ask for a favor to Weaver go with them, she also love dearly punished after granddaughter, that he made them speed to speed back.
After Petunia was demoted, in a peasant's home, named cowherd. Then the parents died, leaving him a cow and a car.
From then on, the Cowherd and the cow had each other, they ploughed in the wasteland, can barely live. However, in addition to the dumb ox, home only cowherd desolate one, life was very lonely. The cowherd did not know, the cow was heaven taurus. One day, the cow should speak, it to the cowherd said: "cowboy, today you go green lotus pool a trip there will be some Fairies in the bath, you put the Red Fairy clothes to hide, to wear the Red Fairy Dress fairy will become your wife." See the original old cowboy talking, and surprised and happy, he asked: "cattle brother, will you talk to me! Are you saying it's true?" The cow nodded, cowboy quietly hiding in the green lotus pool, reeds, waiting for the arrival of the fairies.
Soon, the fairies really elegant and light Luo clothes off and jumped into the pool. The cowherd quickly from reed ran out, took the Red Fairy clothes. See fairies to, hurriedly have to wear their clothes, like a bird flew away, leaving only Weaver no clothes. They see their fairy clothing turned out to be a young man away, shy and anxious, but helpless. At this time, the cowherd walked up to her, said: "if you promise to marry me, I will get it back to you." A weaver, I am thinking about day and night and morning glory, he promised his shy. In this way, the fairy did cowboy's wife.
After they are married, deeply attached to each other, the day men tilling the farm and women weaving, very happy. Soon, they had children, a boy and a girl, very cute. The thought to be together forever.
But the queen knew this afterwards, fly, immediately sent back to heaven and heaven vega. This day, Weaver was cooking, arable land to the cowboy hurried, eyes red and swollen with told Weaver: "cattle brother died, before he died, he said, I after his death, his cowhide stripped down well, long as put on it, you can fly up to heaven." Let off the Leather Cowboy Weaver, to bury the cow.
Is then, sky, wind, the generals will fall from the sky, abruptly, escorted the weaver will fly in the sky.
Is flying and flying, Weaver heard the voice: "Cowboy Weaver, wait for me!" She looked back and saw the cowboy with a pair of baskets, carrying two children dressed in leather came. Slowly, distance between them is getting more and more near, the weaver can see children are lovely, the children are with open arms, shouting "Mom", seeing, the Cowherd and the weaver girl to meet. Can at this time, the queen mother in Xiangyun came, she pulled her head gold Zan, to them, and stroke, in an instant, a Tianhe waves rolling across the Vega and Altair, they can't meet again.
They looked at the Milky way the Cowherd and the children cried at the top, the Cowherd and the children cried half alive. They cry, the children a sound "mother" shout, that is so worried, even alongside wait-and-see fairy, the gods feel sad. The queen mother sees this sentiment, also a little for the faithful love touched, they agreed to let the Cowherd and the children left in the sky, every year, July 7, let them to meet once a year. From then on, the Cowherd and his children lived in heaven, separated by a river, and the distance across the weaver. On July 7th, there will be countless herds of magpie bridge for them. On bridge, Vega and cowherd affectionate, cuddled their children