Look up at the night sky in early fall and the brightest star you see is Vega, the star of the Weaving Girl. To the east is the Milky Way, called the Heavenly or Silvery River by the Chinese.
神話是民族的夢，「天階夜色涼如水，臥看牽牛織女星」正是民族心靈的寫照。在初秋的夜晚，我們抬頭仰望天空，所能見到最明亮的星就是織女星，織女星的東方，是眾多小星組成的銀河，也叫天河，白濛濛的一片成帶狀從北向南橫貫在夜空中。