Do you know the story of the cowboy and the weaver girl(织女)? The cowboy happened to meet the weaver girl. After some time, the weaver girl decided to 1 him and they had a family. 2 the cowboy went out to work, the weaver girl weaved cloth (织布) at home every day. Later, they had two children and lived a happy life.
In fact, the weaver girl was a daughter of the Emperor of Heaven. She could weave colorful 3 to make the sky more beautiful. When the Emperor of Heaven found she was on the Earth, he was very 4 and ordered Xiwangmu to bring her back.
One fine day, a rainstorm 5 broke out when the weaver girl was working. She 6 that Xiwangmu came to take her back. She told the cowboy what would happen. Then she had to fly away with Xiwangmu. The cowboy tried to follow his 7 with their children. However, Xiwangmu 8 to let the weaver girl go back to her family. She made a river called Milky Way with her 9 hairpin (发卡). Because of that, the cowboy and the weaver girl couldn't get together. It's said that many magpie's (喜鹊) fly to the Milky Way to make a bridge for the 10 on the seventh day of the 7th lunar month every year. Then they could get together.