What is the origin of July 7? What is the seventh day of July?

That's the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

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This year, August 2, 2014 is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Saturday.

The 7th day of July 2022 is August 4th.

The seventh day of the seventh month of July is the traditional festival Qixi Festival, Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, Niu Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi Festival, 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 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. 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 seventh month of the lunar calendar is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the Qixi Festival in 2020 is on August 25, 2020 in the Gregorian calendar.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as the Qixi Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional Chinese festival with a long history. Chinese folklore has it that on the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the magpie built a bridge on the Milky Way, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the bridge. Ancient custom: On this night, Chinese girls have to thread needles and beg.

The meeting at Queqiao celebrates the unswerving love of the Chinese working people and their strong desire to pursue a better life.

Tanabata"As early as ancient times, people had an understanding of astronomical phenomena and corresponded to the sky star regions with geographical regions. Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is"Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on July 7, and everyone is accustomed to it"This is the earliest record of the custom of begging that we have seen in ancient documents. In the later poems of the Tang and Song dynasties, women's begging was also repeatedly mentioned, and Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem saying:

The stars are adorned with pearlescent light, and the Qixi Palace is busy"。

This festival is very closely related to the myths and legends of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, which is a very beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages, and has become one of the four major Chinese folk love legends.

The folklore of July 7 is the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: Legend has it that the ancient Emperor of Heaven's granddaughter, Weaver Girl, was good at splitting ears and weaving long cloth, weaving colorful clouds 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 over and used their bodies to build a magpie bridge across the Tianhe, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe.

Folk customs of July 7:

1. Xiangqiao Club.

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is a custom of Qixi Xiangqiao. Every year on the Chinese Valentine's Day, people come to participate and build incense bridges. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of various thick and long incense sticks (incense sticks wrapped in paper), and a railing is installed, and a five-colored thread is tied on the railing to make a flower decoration.

At night, people worship the twin stars, beg for good fortune, and then incinerate the incense bridge, symbolizing that the two stars have crossed the incense bridge and meet happily. This incense bridge is derived from the legend of the legendary Magpie Bridge.

2. Dew.

In rural Zhejiang, the custom of using a basin to catch dew is popular. Legend has it that the dew during the Qixi Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet, and if they are wiped on the eyes and hands, they can make people's eyes and hands quick.

The name "july" comes from the Roman consul Julius Caesar, who was born in a month that set the month of his birth as a 31-day chain; August (August) is the month of birth of the ancient Roman emperor, and when he came to power to revise the Xunqin calendar, he set aside one day in February (when February was the month of trial of criminals) to add one day to his birth month to make it 31 days. <

The Gregorian calendar currently used by Mu Libi is derived from the Roman calendar.

The name "july" comes from the Roman consul Julius Caesar, who was born in 31 days; August (August) was the month of birth of the ancient Roman emperor, and when he came to power to revise the calendar, he set aside one day in February (when February was the month of the trial of criminals) to add one day to his birth month to make it 31 days.

So the uneven number of days in the Gregorian months we see today is due to the will of the rulers and not of scientific significance.

July 7 is the traditional Chinese Qixi Festival, which is the so-called Valentine's Day in the West.

The origin of the Qixi Festival is related to the folk story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and its earliest origin may be in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as "The Book of Poetry: Dadong": "The Weaver Girl wrestles, seven Xiang all day long." Although it is seven, it is not a uniform; Ignorant of the cow, do not recognize the box.

There is also Luo Qi's "Source of Things" in the Ming Dynasty: "King Chu Huai made trouble for the first time on Qixi Festival.

However, at that time, Qixi Festival was a sacrifice to Altair and Vega, and there was no story behind it. It was not until the Han Dynasty that its details were linked to the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and it officially became a festival belonging to women. For example, the Eastern Han Dynasty Yingshao's "Customs and Customs" contains:

The Weaver Girl crossed the river on Tanabata and made the magpie an overseas Chinese. Another example is "Xijing Miscellaneous Records": "Han Cai bent penitent women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on July 7, and they are all used to it."

Qixi Festival is Valentine's Day in China. It is also a festival that promotes blind dates between men and women. Folklorists put forward their own opinion: the Qixi Festival is first and foremost a festival for single women.

Zhao Kuifu, a professor at the Institute of Ancient Books of Northwest Normal University, believes that in ancient China, the Qixi Festival should be the happiest day for single women, even if it is the Spring Festival, many women may not be able to wear new clothes to visit the door, and the family generally calls men to visit relatives and friends, only on the Qixi Festival, the ancient single women can dress up and go out to gather and play with their sisters generously.

The Qixi Festival was first executed in the court of the Western Han Dynasty, and later dispersed to the people. Zhao Kuifu said that in the court of the Western Han Dynasty, the palace ladies could not be advocated to fall in love at will, so the earliest connotation of the Qixi Festival was mainly to beg Qiao, commend women's ingenuity, and women showed embroidery, needlework and other craftsmanship on this day.

Zhao Kuifu told reporters that after the Qixi Festival spread to the people, it was added to wishes such as love and family happiness, and even added the connotation of advocating reading and writing articles, such as Liu Yiqing's "The World Says New Words" mentioned the fragment of everyone posting books on July 7. Although the customs of the Qixi Festival are different from place to place, what has not changed since ancient times is that it is mainly based on "begging for women's wisdom".