I'm always fascinated by the chinese story of "牛郎与织女" (also known as The Story of the Cowheard and the weaver girl).
But once a year all the birds in the world would take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge (鵲橋, "the bridge of magpies", Que Qiao) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, which is the seventh night of the seventh moon.
In Japan, this festival is also know as the Star Festival and this year 2009, the festival falls on the 26 August 2009.
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