Today, July 7th, what is the traditional festival of the lunar calendar?

2 Nowadays, Qixi Festival has become synonymous with "domestic Valentine's Day", in such a traditional and modern festival, how do contemporary cowherds and weavers plan to spend it? Is it the second consumption day wrapped in chocolate and roses, or the second lovesick day from afar? How to spend Qixi Festival to be considered too Chinese?

The Han Cultural Scenic Area in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has launched a series of activities on the occasion of the arrival of the Chinese Valentine's Day. According to the organizers, one of the highlights of the event, "Qiqiao", consists of three links. The girls can go to the lion pond in the scenic spot, hold the embroidery needle and throw it on the water surface to see if it floats, and judge whether it is clever according to the projection of the needle; Threading the needle should be a coincidence:

The most traditional begging activity is to thread a needle. In the past, smart needles were usually multi-hole needles, but now seven needles can be combined together, and a single pass is considered a victory, and a special prize from a sponsor can be obtained; Worship the Weaver Girl: Next to the Magpie Bridge, under the old tree, set up a case to wear Hanfu to worship the Weaver Girl.

Tao Siyan believes that such a Qixi Festival can be called "ancient". He told reporters that according to research, the Qixi begging activities roughly include: the girls put seasonal melons and fruits to worship Vega, praying that the goddess of heaven can give them a smart heart and dexterous hands, so that their knitting skills are skillful, and they also pray for the marriage of love and marriage.

Although it has been passed down to this day, the way of begging varies from place to place, but each has its own taste. In addition to the unique and innovative wearing Hanfu and begging skills, folklore expert Tao Siyan suggested that on the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, couples can also find a safe place that is not affected by the lights of the town, look up to the Cowherd and Vega, and make a promise to love each other forever. This way of celebrating the festival is more Chinese romantic than the common chocolates, flowers, and jewelry.

How can you accurately find the Cowherd and Vega in the vast night sky? According to Wang Sichao, a researcher at the Purple Mountain Observatory, looking up, near the top of your head, you can see a very bright white star, which is Vega. Crossing the Milky Way from Vega to the southeast, you can see three stars, roughly evenly arranged in a line, and the middle one is also very bright, it is the Cowherd Star, also known as Altair.

There are four small stars in front of Vega, forming a small parallelogram, which is said to be the shuttle of the Vega weaving; The two small stars in front of and behind the Cowherd Star are the two children he carries with a flat pole. Folklore experts believe that organizing various activities with a modern sense in a beautiful atmosphere of myths and legends, although it is impossible to reproduce or restore the scenes and customs of people spending the Qixi Festival in ancient times, it is at least a channel for modern young people to understand the rich connotation of the Qixi Festival, and at the same time promote traditional virtues in the festival culture.

Qixi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, I wish you a happy Valentine's Day!

What is the holiday on July 7 of the lunar calendar?

July 7 of the lunar calendar is the Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival. Qixi Festival is the most romantic festival among China's traditional festivals, and is also considered to be "Chinese Valentine's Day".

Another name for the Qixi Festival:

The festival is also known as Double Seven: This sun, moon, and day are all seven, so it is called, and it is also weighed seven. Incense Day: It is commonly said that the Tanabata cow girl meets, and the weaver girl has to dress up, apply grease and powder, so that the sky is full of incense, so it is called.

When did the Tanabata Festival originate

Qixi 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", which is the earliest record of begging in ancient documents.

Tanabata was the first to worship 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 much more than Altair and Vega, they believe that there are seven stars in the east, west, north and south to represent the direction.

The stars, collectively known as the 28 Nakshatras, are the brightest of the Big Dipper, which 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. The current "week" is calculated by "Shichiyao", which 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".

July 7 of the lunar calendar is the Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Nuchakong Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiniang Meeting, the Qixi Festival, the Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., which is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the star-shaped scumbag, 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" Bu Qingquietly held on the seventh night of July.

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 seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called the Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Daughter's Festival, and the Seven Niang Society.

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, married the cowherd of Hexi privately, and lived a life of male farmers and female weavers.

This angered the Emperor of Heaven, who took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, ordered them to separate, and allowed them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Queqiao Bridge. Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew in, using their bodies to build a magpie bridge across the Tianhe, and let the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet on the Tianhe.

And because the Weaver Girl has a pair of skillful hands that can weave clouds, and the folk girls hope to get the aura of the Weaver Girl, so there is a custom of "begging" on the day of the Qixi Festival.