July 7, 2007 : The Star Festival and Korean Barbecue With My Friends
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
It's the Star Festival! Sooooo, here comes the Korean BBQ!
Huh? Star Festival and Korean BBQ are not related, you might say?
Actually, there is a connection between them.
The story dates back to ancient China.
The most powerful god in the sky had a daughter.
Her name was Orihime, and she was in charge of weaving clothes for the gods, and she worked diligently every day by the Milky Way.
The god felt sorry for her as she had no lover, so he introduced her to a hardworking young man named Hikoboshi,
who kept a cow on the other side of the Milky Way, and the two were eventually married.
After their marriage, the two lived together and had fun every day,
she stopped weaving, and the gods' clothes became worn and tattered,
the cows were no longer cared for, they became thin and sickly.
This angered the god and he separated them on both sides of the Milky Way.
But they cried every day and could not work, and the god felt sorry for them and promised to let them meet once a year on the night of July 7,
if Orihime weaved clothes and Hikoboshi tended the cows diligently every day.
So Orihime and Hikoboshi are said to meet every year on the night of July 7th.
This is the legend of the Star Festival.
So, we celebrate it with a cow! (<- what a funny interpretation! lol)
We three had so much fun partying!