What is Double 7 Xi and what does Tanabata mean

On July 7 of the lunar calendar, China's Valentine's Day, there are two July 7 days in this year's leap July, which are called Double Qixi Festival.

This year is a leap year in the lunar calendar, and a leap year in the lunar calendar is not one more day, but one more month, and this year there are many Julys.

On July 7 of the lunar calendar, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, China's Valentine's Day, this year's leap July, there are 2 July 7 (two Qixi Festival), called Double Qixi Festival.

It is a year to be able to spend two Tanabata festivals, and this phenomenon only occurs once in 38 years

Yes, it is a rare Tanabata in 38 years, but this year's Tanabata did not experience a romantic atmosphere.

It turned out to be run in July, so there were 2 7 west.

Explain that you have to break the bill twice in a year.

There are two runs in July! And it's only once in thirty-eight years!

I only know that there were two Julys, and then once in 38 years

It's leap July, so it's been two July sevenths.

Qixi Festival (Tianhe begging customs), a traditional folk custom in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. July 7 (Qixi Festival), known as "Seven Sisters' Day", that is, the birthday of the Seven Sisters, because the worship activities are on the seventh night of the first month of July, so it is called "Qixi Festival". Begging is one of the important customs of the Seventh Sister's Day.

The customs of the begging festival in Guangzhou are mainly popular in Tianhe, Huangpu, Panyu and other districts. Tianhe District, Panyu District, and Huangpu District call the Qixi Qiqiao Festival as the "Seventh Sister's Day", also known as "Qi Niang's Day", "Swing Qi Niang" and "Worship Qi Niang", which is the survival of the ancient Lingnan begging folk customs. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou formed a Qiqiao market specializing in women's products, such as Shangjiufu, Xiajiufu and Tenth Fu.

On the day of Qixi Festival, the community organized the "worship Qi Niang" ceremony, and the worship objects were not only the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but also the six sisters of the Weaver Girl. The display of handicrafts by women in the community is the main content of the "Swing Skill" activity. The dolls of folk legends and historical stories are lifelike, the shapes of plants and utensils are vivid, the wits and ingenuity are played, and the talents are displayed, and the ancient style of "shadow threading the needle" continues.

The community theatre troupe also performs the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

In our country, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as the Qixi Festival, and some people call it the "Qiqiao Festival" or "Daughter's Festival", which is the most romantic festival in the traditional Chinese festivals, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past. Later, the term "Patine's Day" in the West was introduced, and now it is gradually called "Valentine's Day". On a clear summer and autumn night, the stars are shining in the sky, and a white Milky Way runs through the north and south, and there is a shining star on the east and west banks of the river, looking at each other across the river, far away, that is, Altair and Vega.

Qixi sits to watch the morning glory Vega, is a folk custom, according to legend, on this night 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, and ingenious fairy, and the women of the mortal world beg her for wisdom and ingenuity on this night, and also inevitably ask her for a happy marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging Festival. Legend has it that on the night of Qixi Festival, you can see the Milky Way meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl when you look up, or you can overhear the pulse and love words of the two when they meet in the sky under the melon and fruit stand.

What are the aliases of the Qixi Festival

The other name of the Qixi Festival is SoosongBegging Festival, Double.

Seventh, incense day, week, Qiaoxi, women's day, orchid night, children's day, needle festival, moral la, seven sisters' birthday, seven mother's meeting, cow bull mother's dayEach alias has its own meaning behind it.

Qixi belongs to the traditional Chinese folk festival, derived from the worship of the stars, for the traditional sense of the Seventh Sister's Day, because the worship of the Seven Sisters is held on the seventh night of July, so the name Qixi Festival.

There is also a beautiful legend about the Qixi Festival, the fairy love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. According to legend, the Cowherd was originally a mortal, while the Weaver Girl was a fairy in the sky. The Weaver Girl met and fell in love with the Cowherd when she went down to play by chance, so she married him.

When the Queen Mother learned of this, she ordered the Weaver Girl to be forcibly brought back to heaven. Later, the Cowherd got guidance and finally met the Weaver Girl. However, due to the obstruction of the Milky Way, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated on both sides of the strait, and they could only cry and cry relatively.

Their loyal love touched the magpie, so thousands of magpies built a magpie bridge, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl envy Lu walked on the magpie bridge to meet, the queen mother was helpless about this, so she had to allow the two to meet on the magpie bridge on July 7 every year. Why is Tanabata called Double Seven?

Qixi is on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendarFor the day and month are seven, so it is called double seven, and it is also weighed seven.

Qixi Festival was popularized in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, and the Shuangqiao Festival.

Seventh, the seventh sister's birthday, etc. The Qixi Festival is a comprehensive festival with the folk legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as the carrier, the theme of love, and the female as the main body. In modern society, people spend the Qixi Festival more as Valentine's Day, on the day of the Qixi Festival, almost every couple will have some dating activities, and some people will choose a day like the Qixi Festival to propose, or choose the Qixi Festival to get a certificate.

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.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Chinese Valentine's Day, legend has it that the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet.

The day when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd met! That is, Valentine's Day in China.