The legend of the Weaver and the Cowherd first appeared in "The Nineteen Old Poems," compiled during the Han period and selected in "Bunsen (literature)" (Selected Literature), but its relationship to July 7 is not clear.
織女と牽牛の伝説は『文選(書物)』の中の漢の時代に編纂された「古詩十九首」が文献として初出とされているが、まだ7月7日との関わりは明らかではない。