What is Tanabata? Is it any use?

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China.

Because the main participants of this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging, so people call this day "Qiqiao Festival" or "Girl's Day" and "Daughter's Day".

The Qixi Festival is one of the most romantic festivals in China's traditional festivals, and it is also the day that girls attach the most importance to in the past. On this night, the women thread needles and beggars, pray for Fu Lu Shou activities, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, lovely.

On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. It is now also considered "Chinese Valentine's Day".

1.On the seventh day of July, the magpie bridge fairy, the golden wind and jade dew hate the bitter short, and the morning and twilight are often accompanied, and the cowherd envy the mandarin duck! Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!

2.The Cowherd will weave the Weaver Girl, which has become a good story for the ages, and I will build a love nest with you in the same time and space. May there be lovers in the world who will eventually become married, and build a rainbow with our love!

3.It's the holiday, it's the Chinese's Valentine's Day, the Chinese Valentine's Day, our Valentine's Day, I miss you so much, where do we go to celebrate?

4.Heaven and earth, year after year, reunion tonight, I wish it forever. I just want to tell you that my special feelings for you will not change in this life! Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!

5.Tanabata, Tanabata, my best time; The Weaver Girl, the Weaver Girl, my beloved wife; Heaven and earth, thousands of years gathered; Woohoo, I love my wife.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in China. It's useless in your thoughts.

Tanabata refers to the traditional sense of the Seventh Sister's Day, because the worship activities are held on the evening of July 7th, so the name is Qixi. It is the traditional customs of Qixi to worship the seventh sister, pray for blessings and make wishes, beg for skillful arts, sit and watch the morning glory Vega, pray for marriage, and store water for Qixi Festival.

The food customs of the Xi Festival are different from place to place, and they are generally called eating smart food. A clever word vividly expresses the uniqueness of Qixi food customs, and expresses people's good wishes for the pursuit of a healthy family and a happy life.

Judging from historical documents and ancient relics, with people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, there are festivals related to Altair and Vega and sacrifices and blessings. Through historical development and evolution, the celestial astrological signs of the Morning Glory and the Maiden have been endowed with the personified beautiful legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

In "Nineteen Ancient Poems", the morning glory and weaver girl are already a pair of lovers who admire each other, and then they have been processed by generations of literati, and this part of the heavenly legend has become more and more full and vivid. In the classic repertoire of Huangmei Opera "Tianxian Pei", the ancients' conjecture about the stars has been almost perfectly integrated with a folk farmer named Dong Yong into a love tragedy in the world, which is now known as the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The true meaning of Tanabata Festival is Valentine's Day and Girl's Day.

It was the day that girls paid the most attention to in the past. On this night, the women thread needles and beg, pray for the potato stool to disturb the Fu Lu Shou activities, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, lovely.

Originated in China, the Qixi Festival is the world's earliest love festival, in the Qixi Festival of many folk customs, some gradually disappeared, but a considerable part has been continued. In some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, etc., there is also a tradition of celebrating Qixi Festival. On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in China.

Festival customs: 1. Listen to whispers.

In some rural areas of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, there will be many beautiful girls on the night of Qixi Festival, secretly hiding under the leafy pumpkin shed, and if you can hear the whispers of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl when they meet in the dead of night, the girl to be married can get a thousand years of unswerving love in the future.

2. Water purification video.

The begging activity in Jiangsu is to take a bowl of clean water and expose it to the sun and spend the night in the open air. That is, pick up a fine grass stick and float it in the water, depending on its shadow to determine the clumsiness. There are also many young women who use small needles to see the shadows of needles under the water to fulfill their wisdom and foolishness.

The Han people in other regions also used this method to fulfill their clumsy wisdom and foolishness.

3. Worship God. Some villages in western Guangdong have the custom of worshipping the gods on July 7. According to traditional customs, people worship the "lord" (Bodhisattva) in the temple first, and then worship the land lord. The offerings to worship the gods generally include rice, three teas and five wines, fruits, etc.

Why is Tanabata called Tanabata? Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Daughter's Day, Seven Sisters Festival, every day on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, that is, Qixi Festival, because of the worship of the Seven Sisters, held on the evening of July 7, so it is called Qixi Festival.

Chinese Valentine's Day originated from the folklore of the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd.

Hello, Qixi Festival is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the bridge.

It also belongs to Valentine's Day.

The specific origin of Tanabata:

1. The origin of the Qixi Festival.

The Qixi Festival first originated in the Han Dynasty, and there are relevant records in the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", such as "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on July 7, and people are accustomed to it", which is the earliest record of begging that we have seen in ancient documents, but according to history, the origin of the Qixi Festival is actually fundamentally nature worship, such as at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the production of textile technology, the weaving of myths and stories is also relatively good, Therefore, Altair and Vega were turned into a beautiful love story, which has been passed down to this day.

2. The legend of the Qixi Festival.

I believe that most people will not be unfamiliar with the legend of the Qixi Festival, because there are countless film and television works related to the Qixi Festival, which are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl of the Qixi Festival itself is one of the four major folk legends in our country, and it has a weighty position.

And the legend is like this, according to legend, the Cowherd's parents died early, and when he was young, he couldn't get the treatment of his brother and sister-in-law, the whole person was only the closest to the old cow, one day the Cowherd met a woman who could be called a fairy, that is, the Weaver Girl, the so-called love at first sight is nothing more than this, the Cowherd He fell into unrequited love, and the old cow saw that the Cowherd seemed to be troubled, so he appeared to him out of a plan, so that he could capture the heart of the Weaver Girl.

One day, the fairy bathed in the river, and the Cowherd saw this and decisively took away the clothes of the Weaver Girl, and she was naturally panicked, begging the Cowherd to return the clothes to her, but of course the Cowherd refused to give her the clothes so simply, so he said, "If you are willing to be my wife, then this dress will be given to you", and the Weaver Girl responded, because she came to the Cowherd at the beginning, and now the two are in love, so it is appropriate to be together. The days after marriage were very happy, and even gave birth to a son and a daughter, until the old cow died when he was too old, and the couple were very sad, but the old cow told the cowherd to keep its skin and put it on in times of emergency for help. After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the cow and buried it on the hillside.

But the good days soon came to the nightmare, when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd were married, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother learned about it, so they sent people to the lower realm to arrest the Weaver Girl, and the gods took advantage of the Cowherd's absence to capture the Weaver Girl. When the Cowherd went home and didn't see the Weaver Girl, he guessed that it was someone from heaven, so he remembered the old cow's advice, hurriedly put on the cowhide, and flew up with two children.

Seeing that she was about to catch up, the Queen Mother was in a hurry, pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and stroked towards the Milky Way, and the former shallow Milky Way became turbid in an instant, and the Cowherd could no longer pass. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only have tears in their eyes, looking at each other across the river, for a long time, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother can not resist the sincere feelings between them, and they are allowed to meet once a year on July 7, according to legend, every seventh day of the seventh month, the magpie in the world will fly to the sky, and meet on the magpie bridge for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the Milky Way.

The lunar date of Qixi is the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of each year.

The above is the origin of the Qixi Festival.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Qiaoxi Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Originally derived from the cult of the stars, through historical development, Qixi has become a romantic festival symbolizing love because it has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", and it has the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day" in modern times.

The Qixi Festival is also known as the Qiqiao Festival, and "smart food" is generally eaten in various places. Due to the differences in local customs, there are many kinds of "smart food". Among the festive foods, Qiaoguo is the most representative.

The main ingredients are oil, flour, sugar, and honey. The basic method is to put the dough into a mold to make a pattern, and then fry or burn it. On the day of Tanabata, people look up at the sky while eating Qiaoguo, hoping that they can become dexterous.

With the development of the times, the traditional food of "begging fruits" has evolved into a variety of colored pastries.