The specific date of the Qixi Festival and its origin

1. The Qixi Festival originated from the worship of nature and the custom of women threading needles and begging, and later because of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, it was given the meaning of love.

2. Legend has it that the ancient Emperor of Heaven's granddaughter, Weaver Girl, was good at weaving cloth and weaving colorful glows to the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to the mortal world, married the cowherd of Hexi privately, and lived a life of male farmers and female weavers.

Let's copy and paste it first, you can also check it yourself: Qixi Festival, formerly known as the Qiqiao Festival. Qixi Qiaoqiao, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty, Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has a record of "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the cardigan on July 7, and people are accustomed to it", which is the earliest record of Qiqiao that we have seen in ancient documents.

Another legend is that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Tianhe will meet, I believe everyone knows.

The following content is my personal experience, and now the origin of "Tanabata Valentine's Day".

In the summer of 2001, I was in Wuxi. The streets and alleys are full of the first "July 7th, Red Bean Acacia Festival" propaganda slogans, it turned out to be the Hongdou Group in Gangxia Town, Xishan District (I have been, it is indeed very big), in order to promote corporate culture and expand popularity, joint "Jiangsu Jiaotong Network" (just established about 1 year) and "Modern Express", "Yangtze Evening News" and several other **, engaged in a large-scale public welfare activities, in order to cooperate with the activities, Jiangsu Jiaotong Network also specially engaged in a car rally, every day on the radio, in the taxi, major ** Rush to report and build momentum. At that time, it felt that it was confined to the province, very fresh, but I didn't expect it to become a national festival a few years later, and it became "Chinese Valentine's Day", which is very good, at least I don't have to be a foreigner's 2.14 Valentine's Day or so.

It's scoop, don't you have any doubts?

1. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars, which is the birthday of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense, and is called "Qixi Festival" because the worship of the "Seven Sisters" is held on the seventh night of July. 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. After historical development, Qixi has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, which is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China, and has produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

2. Qixi Festival is not only a festival to worship the Seventh Sister, but also a festival of love, which is a comprehensive festival with the folklore of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of praying for blessings, begging and love, and taking women as the main body. The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" of Qixi Festival ** in people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, in ancient times, people corresponded to each other in astronomical star regions and geographical regions, and this correspondence is called "dividing stars" in terms of astronomy, and in terms of geography, it is called "dividing fields". Legend has it that every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.

3. The Qixi Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, the Qixi Festival was an exclusive festival for beautiful women. Among the many folk customs of Tanabata, some have gradually disappeared, but a considerable part has been continued.

The Qixi Festival originated in China, and it is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam. On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the People's Republic of China.

"Tanabata" was the earliest in people's worship of nature. Judging from historical documents, at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, there were records about Altair and Vega. People worship the stars far more than Altair and Vega, they believe that there are seven stars representing directions in the east, west, north and south, collectively known as the Twenty-Eight Nakshatras, of which the Big Dipper is the brightest and can be used to discern the direction at night.

The first star of the Big Dipper is called Kuixing, also known as Kuishou. Later, with the imperial examination system, the champion was called "Da Kui Tian Corporal", and the scholars called Qixi "Kui Xing Festival", also known as "Book Festival", which maintained the traces of the earliest Qixi ** in the worship of the stars.

"Tanabata" is also the worship of time by ancient people. "Seven" is the same as "period", and the month and day are both "seven", giving people a sense of time. The ancient Chinese called the sun, moon and the five planets of water, fire, wood, metal and earth "seven yao".

The number seven is manifested in the folk in terms of time, and the "seven-seven" is often the final game when calculating the time. In old Beijing, when making dojos for the dead, they often thought that they would complete the "Seven Sevens". The current "week" is still preserved in Japanese.

"Seven" is homophonic with "auspicious", and "seven-seven" has the meaning of double auspiciousness, which is an auspicious day. In Taiwan, July is known as the month of "Joy and Prosperity". Because the shape of the word "Xi" in cursive script resembles "seventy-seven", the seventy-seven years old is also called "Xishou".

"Qixi Festival" is also a phenomenon of digital worship, and the ancient folk put the first month and March.

March, May. May, July.

The "sevenfold" of July and September 9, plus the multiples of February 2 and 3, and June 6, are all listed as auspicious days. "Seven" is the number of beads in each column of the abacus, romantic and rigorous, giving people a mysterious beauty. "Seven" has the same sound as "wife", so Tanabata has largely become a festival associated with women.