What is the date of Tanabata?

The 2022 Valentine's Day Qixi Festival is on August 4, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiqiao Festival or the Seventh Sister's Day, originated in China, it is a traditional festival in the Chinese region and East Asian countries, worship the Seven Sisters, pray for blessings and wishes, beg for skillful arts, sit and watch the morning glory Vega, pray for marriage, store Qixi water, etc., is the traditional customs of Qixi Festival.

The reason why the Qixi Festival is set on the seventh day of the seventh month of July.

Claim 1: The legend of the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl stipulates that the two can only meet on July 7 every year.

Claim 2: Records of begging for skill. According to Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is a record that "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on July 7, and everyone is accustomed to it".

Saying 3: "Seven" is the same as "period", and the month and day are both "seven", giving people a sense of time. In the folk performance, it is staged in time, and the "seven-seven" is often the final game when calculating time.

Saying 4: "Seven" is homophonic with "auspicious", and "seventy-seven" has the meaning of double auspiciousness, which is an auspicious day.

It refers to the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of each year, and the Qixi Festival in 2010 is August 16 of the solar calendar.

Because the main participants of this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging, so people call this day "Qiqiao Festival" or "Girl's Day" and "Daughter's Day". The Qixi Festival is one of the most romantic festivals in China's traditional festivals, and it is also the day that girls attach the most importance to in the past. On this night, the women thread needles and beggars, pray for Fu Lu Shou activities, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, lovely.

On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. It is now also considered "Chinese Valentine's Day".

Valentine's Day must be the seventh day of the seventh month of July, but the solar calendar is this year.

Here's wishing you all a Happy Tanabata Valentine's Day!

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China. August 16

7th day of the 7th lunar month

This year is August 16th.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Society, Qixi Festival[67][68], Niu Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. 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 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. [1][2][3][4]

The Qixi Festival is not only a festival to worship the Seven Sisters, 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, begging and love, and with women as the main body. 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.

The Qixi Festival began in ancient times, popularized 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 continued. The Qixi Festival originated in China, and it is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam.

On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the People's Republic of China. [7][8][9][10][11]

Chinese name. Tanabata Festival.

Foreign name. Double Seventh Festival alias. Seven Sisters' Day, Qiqiao Festival, Seven Sisters' Day, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seven.

Festive time. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Types of festivals. Traditional festivals.

Endemic areas. China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle.

Origin of the festival. Natural celestial worship, Seven Sisters' Day (Seven Mother's Day) festival activities. Worship the Seventh Sister, store Qixi water, eat Qiaoguo, beg for Qiaoyi and marriage, etc.

Festive diet. Qiaoguo, halva, etc.

Festive significance. Inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture.

The Qixi Festival is on July 4 every year, which is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

What is the date of the month of Tanabata? It is the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar every year

Qixi Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Festival, Qixi Festival, Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The 2022 Qixi Festival is Thursday, August 4, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiqiao Festival or the Seventh Sister's Day.

Qixi Festival began in the Han Dynasty and is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, 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, women begged for wisdom and skill from Vega in the courtyard, so it was called "begging skill".

During the Qixi Festival, many customs such as women wearing needles and begging, praying for blessings and longevity, worshiping the Seven Sisters, displaying flowers and fruits, and gōng (female red) have influenced countries in the Chinese character cultural circle such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam.

The customs of the Qixi Festival.

1. The legend of "Yaqiu".

In addition, myths and legends say that the Weaver Girl in the sky yearns for the world and marries the Cowherd privately. The angry Queen Mother used her hairpin to draw a heavenly river to separate the two of them. Every year on the seventh day of July, magpies meet on a bridge.

Therefore, there is a local legend in Laiyang, on the seventh day of July, you generally do not see magpies (called "Yaqiu" in Jiaodong dialect), because they all gather to Tianhe to build a color bridge.

2. The legend of "sister crying".

It is said that on this day, there are lovers who can be white-headed and old on a date under the grape trellis at night, and they can hear the whispers of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the middle of the night. On this day and the previous few days, if it was rainy and rainy, it was called "sister crying", that is, the day when I looked forward to my sister to meet. Because of the lack of purity in the Tianhe River, the weaving amused the girl to miss the cowherd and wash her face with tears, so the rain in the sky came one after another, calling it "sister crying".

Tanabata is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and this year it is Tuesday, August 22.