What is the relationship between the Weaver Girl and the Seven Fairies?
The Seven Fairys and the Weaver Girl are different generations. From the story of the seven fairies and Yong Dong, we can know that the seven fairies are the daughters of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother. The weaver girl, in folklore, is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother. Although their specialty is weaving colored cotton, their generations are not the same.
Basic introduction of the seven fairies:
The origin of the Seven Immortals: First, the worship of astronomy is related to the seven stars of the female household basket, the seven stars of the Pleiades, the three stars of the female household weaver and the four stars of the female household. The second is the image of feather people, which is produced by the concept of immortals in Qin and Han Dynasties.
People generally call this Seven Sisters "Big Immortal, Two Immortals, Three Immortals, Four Immortals, Five Immortals, Six Immortals and Seven Immortals" (privately matched with Yong Dong). The legendary stories of the seven fairies are mostly recorded in fairy tales such as "The Match of Heaven" and The Journey to the West. Most of them appear in Ming and Qing operas, and are often passed down from mouth to mouth as the daughters of the queen mother and female officials.