Are there any meaningful activities on Tanabata?

Summary. This is a custom passed down from generation to generation, either to express family affection and friendship, or to the memory of the ancestors, or to the filial piety of the elderly, or to the admiration of lovers, etc., it is needless to say, but what is the festival is not clear in one or two sentences. In the past, there were very specific actions such as begging, begging, begging, whispering under the vines in the quiet night, but now these things are either forgotten, or there is no atmosphere to do, when we want to celebrate the Qixi Festival, we are really at a loss, I don't know how to spend this festival, and finally it is a shopping spree or a meal.

This is a custom passed down from generation to generation, or empty buckets are to express family affection and auspicious friendship, or to the memory of the ancestors, or to the filial piety of the elderly, or to the admiration of lovers, etc., it is needless to say, but what is the festival is not clear in one or two sentences. In the past, there were very specific actions such as begging, begging, begging, whispering under the vines in the quiet night, but now these things are either forgotten, or there is no atmosphere to do, when we want to celebrate the Qixi Festival, we are really at a loss, I don't know how to spend this festival to be a good fight, and finally it is a shopping spree or a meal.

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1. The main activities of the Qixi Festival are the Qixi Xiangqiao Meeting. Every year on the Chinese Valentine's Day, people come to participate and build incense bridges. At nightfall, people worship the twin stars, beg for good fortune, and then incinerate the incense bridge, symbolizing that the two stars have crossed the incense bridge and meet happily.

2. Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie Festival, originated in China, is a traditional festival in Chinese areas and East Asian countries, the festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (Japan changed to July 7 of the solar calendar after the Meiji Restoration).

1. Qixi Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Daughter's Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiniang Festival, the Qixi Festival, the Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. 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 of the worship of the "Seven Sisters" of the Nian clan held on the seventh day 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. Qixi "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" ** in people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, in ancient times, people will correspond to the astronomical star area and the geographical area, this correspondence in terms of astronomy, called the hunger of the child as a "dividing star", in terms of geography, called "dividing the field". 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 there are still a considerable part of the limbs that have been continued.