When did the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl begin?

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. There are records about Vega and Altair in The Book of Songs, which have always been regarded as the bud and embryo of the legend of Vega and Cowherd.

The earliest record of Cowherd and Weaver Girl in China ancient books is Xiao Ya Dadong in The Book of Songs, but it is only said that Weaver Girl and Petunia are two similar stars in Tianhe, and there is no connection between them. It was not until the Han Dynasty that these two stars were converted into concrete numbers. Ban Gu said in Er Du Fu: "Facing Kunming Pool, holding cows with his left hand and weaving girls with his right hand is like a vast sea of clouds." It means that there are two stone statues of Petunia and Weaver Girl by the pool in Kunming, Han Palace.

The earliest recorded literary work of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is Husband and Wife, which is the Selected Works of Luo Shenfu written by Cao Wei of Three Kingdoms.

Fairy tales of cowherd and weaver girl;

Legend has it that the granddaughter Weaver of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is very good at weaving, weaving rosy clouds for the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to earth, married a cowherd in Hexi privately, and lived a life of farming and weaving.

This angered the Emperor of Heaven, took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered them to separate, allowing them to meet only once a year on July 7th in Queqiao.

Their faithful love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a colorful bridge on the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe River.