Legend has it that on this evening, Niulang, or the Cowherd, and Zhinu, or the Weaving Maid, meet each other for their annual tryst on a bridge formed by sympathetic magpies over the Milky Way.

• 传说每年农历7月7日的晚上，牛郎（牧牛人）和织女（编织女工）会在由喜鹊搭建在银河之上的桥上重逢。