Chinese valentine day story is a love story of cowherd Niu Lang and weaver girl Zhi Nü, the seventh daughter of emperor of heaven. She was the most beautiful amongst all. It happened one day that the seven sisters were bathing in a lake and Niu saw them. In his mischievous mind, came an idea, that he should steal the girls' clothing. So, this naughty chap seeked help of his ox and managed to take away their clothes.
The sisters chose the youngest sister to go to him and plead him to give back their apparels. So, adhering to sisters' request, the seventh sister went to him and seeing her in a naked state, the boy agreed to marry her. This is what happened and the girl proved to be a dutiful wife and even Niu turned out to be a wonderful husband and they were living happily in the company of each other.
But seeing this the goddess of heaven (in some legends she was the seventh daughter's mother) got very angry and she ordered her daughter to come back and perform her duty of weaving colorful clouds and rainbow for the sky because she was of the opinion that the girl wasn't able to concentrate on her activities after getting married. So she separated her daughter from her lover boy by drawing a line of division in the sky thus forming the Milky Way. The girl was sent nearby to star Vega and the lover boy was moved to star Altair. Thereafter sad Zhi Nü kept herself busy weaving clouds and her lover would look at her from a faraway distance and he took care of their two children (stars ß and? Aquilae).
Magpies' pitied looking at the two lovebirds and to bring some ray of hope in their dark life, they got together so as to form a bridge thus paving way for the two lovers to meet at least on one day infact one single night, the seventh night of the seventh lunar month. Well some books maintain that it was the emperor of heaven, i.e. the girl's father who had separated them so that they can better concentrate on their work rather than wasting their time on romance.
It is said that if it rains on the night of Chinese Valentines Day, its not just droppings of water but in actuality they are the tears of this beautiful couple that is crying at the misery of their life. So guys did you enjoy the story? The story is an interesting one but at the same time it is sad too. It really touched my heart and what about you?
