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Overview

In Allen’s prelude Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo are stars serving the Sun. Allowed to marry, they neglect their duties in devotion to one another and are stationed at opposite extremes across the Milky Way. Travel and the required annual inspection leave them only one night together. Crows construct a bridge carrying its materials on their heads, explaining their worn heads during the seventh moon. The lovers’ tears accompany their meeting on its seventh day as earthly rain; if the meeting fails, the usual rain is withheld.

The longer story then describes a mischievous heavenly attendant who destroys the bridge by scattering its builders and is herself banished after the resulting drought. That attendant is associated with Cho Uhn Hah’s birth dream. She is not one of the married stars, and the ensuing human lovers are not simply relabelled as Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. The printed historical names are retained without an independently unverified modern alias equation.

Married stars permitted one annual meeting across the heavenly riverHistorical folklore notice
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Origins & earliest records

Korea; accounts presented by Allen

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Records & interpretation

Complete Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo narrative and collection preface directly read.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

  1. 01

    Korean Tales

    Horace Newton Allen, translator and narrator · 1889

    V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88; prelude pp. 56–57

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)

V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88; prelude pp. 56–57

Entire chapter and preface read; brief notice kept proportionate. Narrator’s uncertainty and limits preserved. No individual teller or original Korean edition identified by the passage.

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  1. Historical English translation and narrative noticesAllen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), VResearch access: 2026-10-05

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