Learning Chinese Story About Double Seven Festival

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When you are learning Chinese culture, you could find that Chinese have developed a rich culture around the use of stories. When you learn Chinese, you can meet a lot of interesting Chinese stories. In Chinese lessons, Chinese teachers will talk about the meaning of many Chinese stories. Today, I learn a Chinese story: Double Seven Festival on my Chinese lesson.

The Double Seven Festival or Chinese Valentine’s Day is the July 7 on lunar calendar every year. It is very similar to the Western Valentine's Day. Below is a story behind the festival:

Zhi Nü was said to be the youngest daughter of the queen of heaven, while Niu Lang was a poor orphan cowherd who lived a poor life with an old magical cow. One day, when the seven fairies slipped out to bathe, Niu Lang met Zhi Nü by the river and asked her to stay with him. Zhi Nü agreed and they lived happily together. However, the queen of heaven was very angry. So she had Zhi Nü brought back to heaven. Seeing his beloved wife flying in the sky, Niu Lang followed Zhi Nü into heaven with the help of the magic cowhide.

Just when he was about to reach ...
... Zhi Nü, the queen showed up. She pulled off her hairpin and used it to draw a line between the two. The line became the “银河 (yínhé) Silver River” in heaven. Zhi Nü went back to the heavenly workshop and continued to weave the clouds. But she was depressed and missed Niu lang very much. Eventually, the queen was moved by their love, and allowed the couple to meet once every year on the Silver River.

Since then, Niu Lang and Zhi Nü meet on “鹊桥 (què qiáo) a bridge made up of magpies” spanning the Milky Way on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of every year. It is a love story, so “七夕节 (Qīxījié) Double Seven Festival” is also called “中国情人节 (Zhōngguó Qíngrénjié) Chinese Valentine’s Day.”

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