About the cowherd which is what festival

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Tanabata Festival, which is set in honor of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden every year.

The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden is one of the four major Chinese Han folk love legends (the other three are The Legend of the White Snake, Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall, and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai), and the festival associated with the legend is the Tanabata Festival.

As the earliest story about stars by the Chinese people. North and South Dynasty era of Ren Fang's "Description of differences" in this paragraph: "East of the river, there is a beautiful woman Li Ren, is the son of the emperor, the loom female workers, year after year of labor, weaving into the clouds of silk thick waterproof clothes, hard work, but no joy, appearance is not flawless finishing, the emperor pity his alone, married with the river west Altair as his wife, since then that is abolished weaving label work, greedy for joy not return. Emperor anger, the responsibility to return to Hedong, once a year to meet."

In 2008, the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden was selected as a national intangible cultural heritage list.