Once upon a time, there was a young man who herded cattle for a living, and everyone called him "Cowherd". When Niu Lang was a child, his parents died, and his brother and sister-in-law were not good to him, so he relied on the old cow for his life.
Selected from Beijing Century Hengtong Parent-Child Story Series
One day, the old cow actually began to speak: "Tomorrow a group of fairies will go to the river to bathe, and you will hide a white dress, and when she asks you for clothes, you will ask her to be your wife." ”
The next day, Niu Lang came to the river early and hid. After a while, there was indeed a group of fairies bathing in the river. Niu Lang found a white dress and quickly hid.
After the fairies had finished bathing, a fairy named Weaver Girl could not find her clothes and began to cry. Niu Lang ran out with his clothes and sincerely proposed to her, and she nodded shyly in agreement.
A few years later, they had a son and a daughter, and the weaver girl was industrious and kind, teaching everyone to raise silkworms and weave beautiful silk. The life of the Cowherd family is getting better and better.
The Queen Mother, Niangniang, learned of the Weaver Girl's private marriage to a mortal, so she sent the gods to arrest the Weaver Girl. Ignoring the pleas of Niulang and the children, the gods forcibly took the Weaver Girl away.
The cowherd and the children wept into tears. Then the old cow spoke again: "I'm going to die." When I die, you will put on my skin and you will be able to take the children to find the Weaver Girl. ”
After the old cow died, the cowherd tearfully peeled off the cowhide, found a flat burden and a basket, picked up two children, and put on the cowhide to chase the weaver girl.
They chased and chased, and finally they could see the figure of the Weaver Girl, and the cowherd and the children shouted loudly. They're about to catch up.
At this time, the Queen Mother came, she pulled off the golden hairpin on her head and swept into the air, and suddenly, a milky way appeared between the cowherd and the weaver girl, and the river was turbulent and the waves were rolling.
The cowherd and the weaver girl were suddenly separated on both sides of the river. They looked at each other with tears in their eyes, but they couldn't get close.
The Weaver Girl misses the cowherd and the child day and night, and washes her face with tears all day long. The Queen Mother was afraid that she would cry and break her body, so she had to promise to let them meet as a family on the seventh day of July every year.
Every year from The first seven days of July, the human magpies will fly up to the sky and build a magpie bridge on the Milky Way, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl's family will meet on the bridge.
Now, there are two big stars on both sides of the Milky Way, namely Morning Glory and Vega. The two little stars next to the morning glory are their sons and daughters.
Century Hengtong Online Summary: This story tells us that to be a hard-working and kind person, we must be brave in the pursuit of a better life.
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