When did the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl first appear?

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.

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Four great folk legends: Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnu crying for the Great Wall, the legend of the white snake and the cowherd and the weaver girl.

1, Butterfly Lovers is one of the four great folk love stories in ancient China. It is the most attractive oral inheritance art and national intangible cultural heritage in China, and it is also a folk custom in China that has a wide influence in the world. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 1700 years has been circulated among the people. It can be said that China is a household name, spreading far-reaching, and is known as the eternal swan song of love.

2. "Meng Jiangnu Crys for the Great Wall" is one of the four folk love stories in China, which is widely circulated in China, especially in the north and south of China. In fact, after scientific argumentation by many experts, it is said that it was Qi Great Wall who cried, not Qin Changcheng. In other words, it is the area around the site of Qi Great Wall in Qilu, Shandong Province.

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