The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story 1 it.
Long long ago, there was a young man 2 Niulang. One day, he met a beautiful girl— Zhinu, the Goddess's seventh daughter. She had just run away from the boring heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhinu soon fell in love with Niulan g and they got married without 3 the Goddess. They lived a happy life on Earth and gave birth to two children. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and 4 Zhinu to return to heaven. With the help of his magic cow. Niulan g flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very 5 . Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two 6 . From then on, Niulan g and Zhinu had to live 7 on the two sides of the river. However, their true love touched all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world,8 once a year tens of thousands of magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge(" the bridge of magpies") for the couple to meet each other.
At last, the Goddess allowed 9 to meet each year on the 7th day of the 7th Chinese lunar month. That's 10 the Double Seventh Festival started. Today, it is a great day for Chinese young people to express their love.
