The folk story "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which is widely spread and known to every household in our country, has been removed from the new semester primary school Chinese textbook. The new eleventh volume of Chinese has added seven new lessons: "The Village of Grass Insects", "Missing Mother", "Chinese Youth", "This Land is Sacred", "The Old Man and the Seagull", "The Last War Elephant", and "Boya Breaks His Zither Strings". While keeping the basic number of class hours unchanged, quite a few old textbook lessons have also been deleted accordingly. Among them, the most eye-catching is the removal of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". The Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Chang'e Flies to the Moon, Meng Jiangnv Weeps for the Great Wall, and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are the four great legends of China, and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl is hailed as the foremost of the four great legends.
This is an excerpt from a news article I read. I feel extremely sad and very angry! The reason for all this comes from the prevention of early romance among students.