Was the magpie bridge that meets on Tanabata originally built by crows?

The magpie bridge that meets on Tanabata is not built by crows, but by magpies.

In ancient folklore, the weaver girl in the sky crossed the Milky Way to meet the cowherd on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month every year, and magpies came to build an extradition bridge, which is called the Magpie Bridge.

According to myths and legends, every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, that is, Qixi Festival, flying magpies will build a bridge on the Milky Way, so that the cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet each other, which is called the Magpie Bridge. Later, this term has been extended to various things that can link the marriage between men and women.

Chinese Valentine's Day has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been handed down through the ages and has become one of the four major folk love legends of the Han nationality.

In the later generations, every seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that the cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, and the girls will come to the flowers before and after the moon, look up at the starry sky, hope to see their annual meeting, beg God to be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and pray for a happy marriage, thus forming Chinese Valentine's Day.