The origin of the Qixi Festival, how to celebrate the Qixi Festival

The Qixi Festival originated in China on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

The festival also has many names.

In ancient times, the main participants in some of its activities were young girls, and the content of the festival was mainly based on begging, so people called this day "begging festival" or "girl's day" and "daughter's day".

Due to the long history of the festival, various customs such as seeding and seeking children have been formed. There are also many interesting riddles, such as a riddle titled "The golden hairpin draws the Milky Way, facing each other across the shore." Unable to bear the separation of the two, the magpie helped out. The mystery is the "Qixi Festival".

There is a beautiful legend about Qixi Festival, that is, the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

In "Sou Shen Ji", the Cowherd in the sky and the Weaver Girl Double Star Potato Friend Liang are interpreted as the story of Dong Yong and his wife, the filial sons of the Han Dynasty.

However, this legend takes place on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and it is also related to the actions of ancient people observing the Vega and the Cowherd (Altair), so that the ancients could understand the arrival of autumn.

According to ancient records, at the evening of July at that time, Vega rose to the highest point of the year, and the clear notice made it visible. In addition, the position of the two fainter stars next to Vega resembles an opening to the east, and when you look to the east, you can see the "Cowherd Star".

Therefore, based on various information, some people believe that there will be a legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting at the bridge during the Chinese Valentine's Day, which is also related to the observation of seasonal and astronomical scenes.

Chinese Valentine's Day originated in ancient times, was popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Among the many folk customs of Tanabata, some have gradually disappeared, but a considerable part has been delayed by people. Chinese Valentine's Day originated in China, and some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam, also have a tradition of celebrating Qixi Festival.

In ancient times, the seventh day of the seventh month was known as the birthday of the Seven Sisters, and the main event on this day was sacrifice. Because the sacrifice is mostly in the evening, it is called Xixi in ancient times, so it is called Qixi Festival. Other names such as Tanabata, week, Women's Day, begging skills, etc.

It is based on some customs in folklore, but the name of Lu Jiandan, which is the most characteristic of Chinese development, is Chinese Valentine's Day, which has become a beautiful festival symbolizing love in our country, which is very romantic.

The Qixi Festival is based on the story of Niu Lang and the Weaver Girl, and the magpie reaches the bridge on the seventh day of July every year to let them meet.

The Qixi Festival first originated in the Han Dynasty, and Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has a record that "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on the seventh day of July, and everyone is accustomed to it". Qixi Festival was endowed with the humanistic connotation of renting women to beg for wisdom and skills from Vega, forming the Qiqiao custom of Qixi Festival, and "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" ** in people's worship of natural celestial phenomena.

In ancient times, people corresponded to astronomical star regions and geographical regions, which were called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing fields" in geography. The record of the corresponding geographical division of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is found in the "Hanshu Di Concept Xianzhi": "Guangdong, the division of morning glory and Wu Nu".

Through historical development, the astronomical astronomy of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been endowed with the beautiful legend of personification, and the folk women beg for wisdom and pray for marriage to the Weaver Girl. It has gradually become a festival that symbolizes love and is the most romantic traditional festival.

Qixi Festival is the world's earliest love festival, Qixi night to sit and watch the morning glory and weaver star, visit close friends in the boudoir, worship the weaver girl, pray for marriage, learn from the female red, beg for blessings, etc., is the traditional Chinese folk Qixi custom.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Seven Sisters Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival, evolved from the ancient star worship, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, after historical development, was endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival that symbolizes love, and is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".

Qixi Festival, ** in mythological stories, according to legend, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year, it is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent, ingenious fairy, in the Qixi Festival, the girls and daughters-in-law of the mortal world beg her for wisdom and ingenuity on this night, so the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month is also called the "Begging Festival".

The traditional activity of the Qixi Festival is that the girls wear embroidery needles with colored threads to compete with whom's needlework is better, and at the same time, put melons and fruits on the offerings, begging the Weaver Girl to give them ingenuity. So in ancient China, the Qixi Festival was a veritable Women's Day.

Today, the traditional Qixi Festival is once again being taken seriously, no longer because it is a women-only festival, but because it has been given a new meaning - Chinese Valentine's Day. And because of this, the traditional festival of Qixi has refound its place in today's society because of its specific cultural connotation and humanistic value, exuding a beautiful and moving romantic atmosphere.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Seven Sisters Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival, evolved from the ancient star worship, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, after historical development, was endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival that symbolizes love, and is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".

As for the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, it is like this: this is a famous folk love story in ancient China. It is about the orphan Cowherd who relies on his brother and sister-in-law to live.

After being abused by his brother and sister-in-law, he was forced to split up and rely on an old cow to plough the fields to support himself. One day, the Weaver Girl and the fairies went down to play and bathed in the river, the old cow suddenly opened his mouth to speak, 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 he quietly took the little fairy's clothes, and the fairies took a bath and were ready to return to heaven, but the little fairy found that the clothes were missing and could only stay, and the Cowherd came out at this time, I made an encounter with the little fairy. After some time, the two of them fell in love, and the little fairy married the cowherd and no longer wanted to go back to heaven.

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.

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

The Qixi Festival evolved from the worship of the stars, which is the birthday of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense, and is named "Qixi Festival" because the worship of the "Seven Sisters" is 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.

Women's Day: The Qixi Festival takes the girl's worship of immortals, begging Qiao, Saiqiao and other festival activities as the main festival activities, so it is called Women's Day, also known as Daughter's Day and Girl's Day. Lan Night: The seventh month of the lunar calendar was called "Lan Yue" in ancient times, so Qixi Festival is also called "Lan Night".Children's Day: Because of begging, begging and other customs.

Hello dear! "Tanabata" was the earliest in people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, time, and numbers. 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, and it is the birthday of the seven sisters in the traditional sense, because the worship of the "seven sisters" is held on the seventh night of July, so it is called the god file "Qixi".