On the Qixi Festival, will the Cowherd and Vega meet in the sky?

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the most romantic "Qixi Festival" in the traditional Chinese festival, and legend has it that the Cowherd and Weaver Girl will meet at the Milky Way Magpie Bridge on this day, and the day has gradually evolved into the Chinese Valentine's Day. Therefore, every night of Qixi Festival, there are lovers who always love to look up at the stars and pray for love to be loyal.

According to the experts of the Provincial Astronomical Society, the two stars of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are the two bright stars in the summer starry sky, if you want to see these two stars, you can look up at 90 degrees after 9 o'clock in the evening, or lie on the bench outside to look at the starry sky, the bright Vega star first appeared near the zenith, and then there is a first-class star in the southerly direction of the Cowherd Star.

At around 10:30 p.m., the moon has sunk below the southwestern horizon, and the Milky Way and the two stars of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will be clearer and brighter at this time. In the suburbs, far away from the city lights, observers only need to look up at the night sky to find that between the two stars is a white vast heavenly river (i.e., the Milky Way) that runs through the north and south, of which the Cowherd Star is in the east of the river and the Vega Star is in the west of the river, and they are "facing each other across the river".

They are 16 light-years away in a straight line! How could it be possible? On Earth, no star can be seen with the naked eye to move, otherwise it would not be called a star.

Both the Cowherd and Vega are bright stars in the summer sky. They always appear together. But to come together, I think impossible. They are 16 light-years apart. And I often look at them, but I don't see them very close. There is always a heavenly river across it.

The Chinese Valentine's Day is over, so do you know the Cowherd and Vega? Will they really meet in the universe? In the summer night sky in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer triangle of Cowherd, Vega and Tianjin Four hangs high in the zenith and is easily visible to the naked eye.

It should be the Year of the Monkey and the month of the Horse to turn together.

Tanabata Cowherd and Vega cannot meet.

When you are enjoying the shade outdoors on a summer night, you can see a bright star above your head, and there are four small stars next to it, like a shuttle weaving cloth, which is Vega. Across the Milky Way, there is a bright star in the southeast, and a small star on each side, that is, the Cowherd Star, across the river from Vega.

Myths are myths after all, and it is impossible for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet overnight. Cowherd and Vega are both very distant stars, both of which are larger than the Sun, simply because they are very far away from us.

In astronomy, the distance between stars is mostly measured in "light years". A light-year is the distance traveled by sunlight traveling 300,000 kilometers per second in one year. The Cowherd is 16 light-years away from us, and the Vega is 27 light-years away, so it looks like a small point of light.

The distance between the Cowherd Star and the Vega Star is also very far, there are light years, and the distance between the Cowherd Star and the Earth is about the same, even if the Cowherd runs fast, he can run 100 kilometers a day, and it will take 4.3 billion years to meet the Weaver Girl. Even if it were to be changed to a spaceship that flew 11 kilometers per second, it would take 450,000 years to fly to the Weaver Girl. Don't say that they meet overnight, even if they make a **, it will take years to reach each other.

Inheritance significance. The legend of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" originated and formed in Lushan, and the local Cowherd and Weaver Girl culture retains its original appearance. The earliest Ming Jiajing chronicles and the gazetteers of cities, counties and townships are recorded. Lufeng Mountain of Lushan is a unique peak, it is said to be the place where the Cowherd grazes, the first of the eight ancient views of Lushan, the Cowherd Cave under the mountain is the place where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, the descendants of the Cowherd often kneel in front of the Cowherd Cave and worship their ancestors.

The beggar of the Nine Women's Temple, the begging customs of the Qixi Festival, the eavesdropping custom under the grape trellis, the ancient temple fair of Qixi Festival in Xinji Township, Lushan County, the silkworm weaving in the mountainous area, the farmers' respect for the cow, the stark contrast between the ban on the performance of "Tianhe" in Sunyi Village, the hometown of the Cowherd, and the singing of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl opera in other villages, etc., all show the deep cultural roots of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in Lushan, and the people of Lushan have firmly believed that this is a real and beautiful story for thousands of years.

On the slope of Lu Mountain, even the Milky Way in the sky, the cow girl comes to meet, the world is happy, and the folk songs and ballads about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been sung for thousands of years, but also retains the original folk culture, adding respect and remembrance to this love story.

Yes! After all, ideas are always good! It's just thinking'Not reality!

Legends do, but that's legends after all.

Tanabata Festival

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, 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 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.

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.

Folk customs

Xiangqiao will be in Yixing, Jiangsu, and there will be a custom of Qixi Xiangqiao. Every year on the Chinese Valentine's Day, people come to participate and build incense bridges. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of various thick and long incense sticks (incense sticks wrapped in paper), which is equipped with a railing and tied with five-color threads on the railing.

At night, 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. This incense bridge is derived from the legend of the legendary Magpie Bridge.

In rural Zhejiang, the custom of using a basin to receive dew is popular. Legend has it that the dew during the Qixi Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet, and if they are wiped on the eyes and hands, they can make people's eyes and hands quick.

Douqiao Tanabata Douqiao, the "Bu Qiao" method to determine the clumsiness of the Douqiao mainly includes several forms such as "Needle Begging", "Joy Spider Skill", "Needle Threading Moon", "Losing Skill", "Lan Night Fighting Skill" and "Needle Testing".

It's Tanabata Festival. Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie Festival, originated in China and is a traditional festival in Chinese areas and some East Asian countries influenced by Han culture. On the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar or the night of the sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, women begged for wisdom and ingenuity from Vega in the courtyard, so it was called "begging skill".

It originated from the worship of nature and the skillful needle threading of women, and was later given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.

The love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is integrated into the Qiqiao Festival, and the folk girls believe it to be true. So on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, during the "Queqiao Meeting" of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the girls will come to the moon before the flower, look up at the starry sky, beg God to let them be as clever as the Weaver Girl, and pray that they can also have a happy marriage, and over time the Qixi Festival will be formed.

On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Tanabata FestivalThe Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are famous folk love stories in ancient China, derived from the star names of Altair and Vega. It mainly tells the story of the orphan Cowherd who relies on his brother and sister-in-law to live.

The sister-in-law was mean and often abused him, and he was forced to split up and feed himself on an old cow. This old cow was very psychic, and one day, the Weaver Girl and the fairies went down to play and bathe in the river.

The old cowherd persuaded the cowherd to meet, and told the cowherd that if the fairies could not go back before dawn, they could only stay in the mortal world, so the cowherd stayed by the river to see the seven fairies, he found that the youngest fairy was very beautiful, and suddenly fell in love, remembering the words of the old cow, so the cowherd quietly took the little fairy's clothes, and the fairies took a bath and prepared to return to heaven, and the little fairy found that the clothes were missing and could only stay.

The Cowherd then had an encounter with the little fairy Weaver Girl, and later they talked very well and understood their respective difficulties, so the Weaver Girl became the Cowherd's wife. After getting married, they farmed and weaved, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and lived a very happy life. Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Heaven found out about this and ordered the Queen Mother to escort the Weaver Girl back to Heaven for trial.

The old cow couldn't bear to let their wives separate, so he cut off the horns on his head and turned it into a small boat, and let the cowherd carry his children to chase after him in a boat. Seeing that she was about to catch up with the Weaver Girl, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rolling Milky Way in the sky. The Cowherd couldn't cross the river, so he could only look at the Weaver Girl by the river and weep from afar.

Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew over and used their bodies to build a colorful bridge across the Tianhe, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe. The Emperor of Heaven had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to meet once a year on the Magpie Bridge on July 7, and the magpie would also be by his side. In the future, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on July 7 every year.

Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie Festival, originated in China, is a traditional festival in Chinese areas and some East Asian countries influenced by Han culture, and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. From the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Since the fate of women in the past could only be to marry a woman, husband and children, many women believe in the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and hope to take the Weaver Girl as an example. Therefore, every time the seventh sister is born, they will sacrifice to the seventh sister, praying that they can be clever and get a happy marriage. This is also the ** of the name "begging".

Women also prepare thin needles made of brass (seven-hole needles) to thread the needles through the moon and the wind with thin threads of five colours. Over time, Tanabata has also become a "Daughter's Day".

In 2012, Wu Bing'an, Ye Shuxian and other experts jointly proposed to list the Qixi Festival as a national legal holiday. [1]

Qixi Festival, which is the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day.

Tanabata FestivalIt can also be called the Begging Festival.

No. The Cowherd is located in the constellation Aquila light-years from the Earth, while Vega is located in the constellation Lyra, which is 25 light-years away from the Earth, and at the same time, Vega is also the first star photographed by humans in human history, and it is also the first star with spectral records.

In the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, Vega is sure to be found among the brightest stars. On Earth, when we observe the Cowherd and Vega, we will see that they echo each other from afar across the Milky Way, but in the entire universe, the distance between the Cowherd and Vega is even farther than we think.

According to scientists' calculations, the distance between Cowherd and Vega is about 14 light years, that is, even the fastest speed of light in the universe takes 14 years to reach Vega from Cowherd, so it is impossible for Cowherd and Vega to meet every year. In addition, for human beings, at the current rate of human beings, it will take at least 500,000 years to reach Vega in order to reach Vega.

In myths and legends, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, they step on a magpie bridge made of magpies. So how many kilometers does it take for Magpie Bridge to reach Vega from Cowherd Star?

The answer is 132 trillion kilometers, magpies are very small, so the number of magpies needed for such a long 132 trillion kilometers is too many to count. It can be seen that the Qixi meeting between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is just a myth and legend, and it is impossible for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet.

No, because the fastest speed between Cowherd and Vega is 16 years.

Qixi Festival, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, well, there will be no meeting in the sky, that is just a kind of hope for the people's beautiful love.