The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd — East Asia (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to China, for a love story people have been telling — and looking up at — for more than two thousand years. A poor cowherd with one old ox meets the youngest daughter of heaven, whose work is weaving the clouds. They build a small ordinary life together, until the sky takes her back and a silver hairpin opens a river of stars between them. And once a year, every magpie in the world goes up to do something about it.
Chinese tradition. The tale of Niulang (the cowherd, the star Altair) and Zhinü (the weaver girl, the star Vega) is one of China's Four Great Folktales. The…
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