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牛郎织女 niúlánɡ-zhīnǚ noun figurative husband and wife who have to live in two different places ▸ 过着牛郎织女的生活 [of a couple] live in two different places 牛郎和织女The Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is a popular Chinese legend dating from the Han Dynasty. It is associated with the seventh evening of the seventh month of the lunar year, when the two stars, Altair and Vega, appear closest together in the sky. The Cowherd (Altair) and the Weaver Girl (Vega), doomed by the Emperor of Heaven to live apart on either side of the Milky Way, meet just once a year when a flock of magpies builds a bridge enabling the lovers to cross. |