Happay chinese “Saint Valentine’s Day”
Today is July 31th, 2006, but according to our luner callender, today is also July, 7th. This is the chinese ” Saint Valentine’s Day”.
Every July 7th at luner year, a cowboy will be allowed to cross the galaxy river to meet his lover, a fairy weaver lady. Yes only once in a year can they meet each other.
That was a very famous fairy tale of ancient china. For hundreds of years, when there was a clear night sky, parents will tell fairy tales for kids. One of those was Cowboy and fairy weaver lady, in chinese ” Niu Lang” and “Zhi Ni”.
Fairy weaver lady was granddaughtor of God, she in charge of weaving rainbows and clouds for the sky. She once falled in love with a normal person and married him secretly. But the love fair or marriage between fairy and normal person was forbidden by the God.
When the God notice their family, the fairy lady was arrested by God and took away, the cowboy ran after her with their kids. But the Godness used her magic power cut the sky and make a galaxy between them. They never have a chance to cross the galaxy river.
Later, the God took back a little bit of his decision and allowed them to meet each other once every year.
The tale also give us a hint how galaxy appeared.
Since then, chinese regarded July 7th at luner callendar as lover’s day. This is our chinese “Saint Valentine’s Day”. And the story happened at God’s period of ancient china, that was more than 5,000 years ago, much earlier than Priest Valentine.
Now, lovers are going to celebrate their love today or to show their love today.
Still, people in china create more and more Day for love. For example, May 20th, the pronounciation of “520″ in chinese is the same as “wo ai ni” (I love you), so May 20th is another day to say love.
chinese cowboy and fairy weaver lady Saint Valentines Day