The origin of the Qixi legend is not Chinese

Qixi Festival, also known as Qizheng Xiaoqiao 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. Because ancient women wanted to follow the example of the Weaver Girl.

Therefore, every time the seventh sister is born, they will sacrifice to the seventh sister, praying that they can be ingenious and obtain a happy marriage. This is one of the most romantic traditional Chinese festivals.

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the four major folk legends in China, and it is also the earliest and most widely circulated legend in Chinese folklore, and has a very important position in the history of Chinese folk literature.

Legend has it that Cowherd's parents died early, and he was often abused by his brother and sister-in-law, and he was only accompanied by an old cow. One day, the old cow gave him a plan and taught him how to marry a weaver girl. On that day, the beautiful fairies did bathe in the Milky Way and frolic in the water.

At this time, the Cowherd, who was hiding in the reeds, suddenly ran out and took the Weaver Girl's clothes. The frightened fairies hurriedly went ashore, dressed and flew away, leaving only the Weaver Girl. At the begging of the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl agreed to be his wife.

After marriage, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the Farmer and the Weaver Weaver, loved each other, and lived a very happy life. The Weaver Girl also gave birth to a son and a daughter to the Cowherd. Later, when the old cow was about to die, he told the cowherd to keep its skin and put it on for help when it was in trouble.

After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the cow and buried it on the hillside.

When the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of Heaven learned about the Weaver Girl's marriage with the Cowherd, they were furious and ordered the Heavenly God to capture the Weaver Girl back in the lower realm. The gods took advantage of the Cowherd's absence and captured the Weaver Girl. The Cowherd went home and didn't see the Weaver Girl, so he hurriedly put on a cowhide and chased after the two children.

Seeing that she was about to catch up, the Queen Mother was in a hurry, pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and stroked towards the Milky Way, and the former shallow Milky Way became turbid in an instant, and the Cowherd could no longer pass. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only have tears in their eyes, looking at each other across the river, for a long time, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother can not resist the sincere feelings between them, and they are allowed to meet once a year on July 7, according to legend, every seventh day of the seventh month, the magpie in the world will fly to the sky, and meet on the magpie bridge for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the Milky Way. In addition, in the dead of night, people can also hear the love words of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the sky under the grape trellis or other melon and fruit trellises.

It is related to the mythical story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting on the bridge, two lovers meet once a year, and the magpie takes the bridge, which is very romantic.

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 true meaning of Qixi Festival is Valentine's Day and Girls' Day, which are the days 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.

Originated in China, the Qixi Festival is the world's earliest love festival, in the Qixi Festival of many folk customs, some gradually disappeared, but a considerable part has been continued.

In some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, etc., there is also a tradition of celebrating Qixi Festival. 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.

The Seventh Sister's Birthday, also known as the Seven Niang Society, the Seven Niang's Mother's Birthday, etc. The Seventh Sister (Vega) is a weaver of clouds, a textile industry, and a protector of lovers, women, and children, and her birth date is July 7.

Legend has it that the fairy in the sky went down to earth and married the Cowherd, and then the Queen Mother knew about it, and called the Weaver Girl back to the sky, the Cowherd then arrived, the Queen Mother took off the hairpin on her head, turned into the Milky Way, separated the Cowherd, and on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the magpies arrived one after another, and built a magpie bridge, and the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl could meet on the Magpie Bridge on this day,...

Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie Festival, began in the Han Dynasty, is a popular traditional cultural festival in China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle, according to legend, the seventh day and night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar or the night of the sixth day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar women in the courtyard to the Vega star begging for wisdom, so it is called "Qiqiao". It originated from the worship of nature and women's needle-threading, and was later given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it one of the most romantic festivals. The festival has produced customs such as women threading needles and begging, praying for blessings and longevity, worshiping the seven sisters, displaying flowers and fruits, and female red, and spreading to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.

On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In recent years, due to the influence of foreign culture, foreign festivals have gradually become popular in China, and the Qixi Festival has produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

Qixi Festival: The legend originated from the Chu land, produced in the Chu country, and this festival was finalized in the Han Dynasty. The Han River is the river sacrificed by the Chu people, and the Weaver Star God is the idol of the Chu people when they worship the water - "the wandering girl of the Han". During the Warring States period, "Qixi Festival" was only a regional festival of the Chu State, and it was not finalized until the Han Dynasty.

Qixi Festival, formerly known as the Qiqiao Festival. Qixi Qiqiao, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty, Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles on the Han Dynasty portrait stone on the seventh day of July, the female dormitory map placket building, people are accustomed to it", this is the earliest record of Qiqiao we see in ancient documents.

"Tanabata" was the earliest in people's worship of 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 far more than Altair and Vega, they believe that there are seven stars representing directions in the east, west, north and south, collectively known as the Twenty-Eight Nakshatras, of which the Big Dipper is the brightest and 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. In old Beijing, when making dojos for the dead, they often thought that they would complete the "Seven Sevens". The current "week" 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".

"Qixi Festival" is also a phenomenon of digital worship, and the ancient folk put the first month and March.

March, May. May, July.

The "sevenfold" of July and September 9, plus the multiples of February 2 and 3, and June 6, are all listed as auspicious days. "Seven" is the number of beads in each column of the abacus, romantic and rigorous, giving people a mysterious beauty. "Seven" has the same sound as "wife", so Tanabata has largely become a festival associated with women.

Do you know what the origin legend of the Tanabata Festival is?

Qixi refers to the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which originates from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are a couple who love each other, the Cowherd is a mortal man, and the Weaver Girl is a fairy in the sky, according to legend, on the day of the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Queen Mother ordered the Heavenly Soldier God to capture the Weaver Girl who went down to heaven without permission, and the Cowherd rode the Cowherd to catch up after learning about it, and the Queen Mother saw that the Cowherd was chasing after herd, and used the fairy method to conjure a Milky Way to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and from then on, the two immortals were separated.

The love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl touched the magpie, and a group of kind-hearted magpies each bit their tails to build a bridge above the Milky Way, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet, and later people called it "Magpie Bridge".

After the queen mother learned about this, she couldn't bear to disperse it, but Tiantiao did not allow people and immortals to love each other, and finally promised to let the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet on the day of Qixi every year.

Postscript, in order to commemorate this touching love story, people set the day of Qixi as Valentine's Day in China.