Also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qiaoqi Festival, Double Seventh Festival, Sweet Day, Sunday, Blue Night, Daughter's Day or Qixi Birthday, etc.
Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a festival with the folklore of Cowherd and Weaver Girl as the carrier, love as the theme and women as the protagonist.
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Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients knew something about the astronomical phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Tanabata has become a festival symbolizing love because of the beautiful legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and it also has the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times. ?
In the Han Dynasty, Tanabata was endowed with the humanistic connotation of love women Vega's begging for wisdom and skills, forming the custom of begging for cleverness on Tanabata, so it was also called "begging for cleverness".
The story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl:
The Weaver Girl met the Cowherd on earth. For the sake of the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl chose to stay on earth, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd gave birth to a pair of children. But the Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Jade Emperor. Finally, the Weaver Girl had to bid farewell to the Cowherd and return to heaven.
Cowherd chased the worse with two children, but was blocked by the Tianhe painted by the Queen Mother. From then on, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only look across the river with tears in their eyes. From then on, on July 7th every year, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother can't help meeting once. According to legend, on the seventh day of July, human magpies will fly to the sky to build a magpie bridge for the cowherd and weaver girl in the Milky Way.
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Baidu encyclopedia-tanabata