Somewhere down the river...

[centree]

• Most Chinese remember being told this romantic tragedy when they were children on Qixi or the Seventh Night Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is usually in early August.
  As the story goes, once there was a cowherd, Niulang, who lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law. But she disliked and abused him, and the boy was forced to leave home with only an old cow for company.
  The cow, however, was a former god who had violated imperial rules and was sent to earth in bovine form.
  One day the cow led Niulang to a lake where fairies took a bath on earth. Among them was Zhinu, the most beautiful fairy and a skilled seamstress.
  The two fell in love at first sight and were soon married. They had a son and daughter and their happy life was held up as an example for hundreds of years in China.
  Yet in the eyes of the Jade Emperor, the Supreme Deity in Taoism, marriage between a mortal and fairy was strictly forbidden. He sent the empress to fetch Zhinu.
  Niulang grew desperate when he discovered Zhinu had been taken back to heaven. Driven by Niulang’s misery, the cow told him to turn its hide into a pair of shoes after it died.
  The magic shoes whisked Niulang, who carried his two children in baskets strung
  from a shoulder pole, off on a chase after the empress.
  The pursuit enraged the empress, who took her hairpin and slashed it across the sky creating the Milky Way which separated husband from wife.
  But all was not lost as magpies, moved by their love and devotion, formed a bridge across the Milky Way to reunite the family.
  Even the Jade Emperor was touched, and allowed Niulang and Zhinu to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month.
  This is how Qixi came to be. The festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220).
  Traditionally, people would look up at the sky and find a bright star in the constellation Aquila as well as the star Vega, which are identified as Niulang and Zhinu.
  The two stars shine on opposite sides of the Milky Way.
  

 

[Mikkelle Sting]

This sounds very interesting. may I sign up?

 

[centree]

Feel free, still working on the idea and details.. Thank you.

 

[Mikkelle Sting]

Name:


Abigail(Abi) Ferral


Gender:


Female


Age:


17


Apperance (picture please!):

Likes:


Tidy objects and places


Soft colors


Sweets


Teddy bears


Dislikes:


Messy places


Dark or bold colors


Vegetables


Dark things


Fears:


Heights


Tight or crowded areas


Darkness


Not being able to control her surroundings.


Personality:


Abi is a perfectionist and if the smallest detail isn't perfect she spots it immediately, no matter how small. She tends to keep to herself though she is polite and confident when she needs to be. But deep inside she is lonely and wishes to show her real self, but is afraid of what people with think of her soft, gentle, and kind side. So when around others she has an air of confidence and perfection.


Short backstory:


Abi grew up on the streets as an orphaned child and no one would take in the small and dirty little creature who ate out of dumpsters and spent her time with scavenging rats. When she was 8 she got a job and from that time on she worked harder than she had ever worked in her life. Eventually she got into college and is studying to be a lawyer(but secretly wishes to be a veterinarian).