It's fate to meet and get drunk today, but who knows where to go after that? -Su Shi's "Queqiaoxian Qixi" has many joys and sorrows, and it is on this night every year. Bai Juyi's Tanabata film has its own entertainment, and he has been looking forward to the coming year. -Lu Jing's "Qixi Poetry"
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China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Beggar's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Valentine's Day in China evolved from the worship of the stars, and it is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.
It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the seven sisters, pray, seek skillful art, sit and watch morning glory and weave stars, pray for marriage and store water on Qixi. After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, thus being regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and even having the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.
The origin of festivals
The ancient astrology culture in China has a long history and is profound. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe from a very young age, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture. Cowherd and Weaver Girl are typical examples. The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originates from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way.
There is also a corresponding relationship between the star and the ground area, which is called "fractional star" in astronomy and "fractional star" on the ground. Simply put, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky with the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation is mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.
Xiangqiaohui
In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is the custom of the Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, someone will participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge about four or five meters long and half a meter wide, which is made of all kinds of thick and long wrapped incense and thread wrapped in paper. The railing is decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.
At night, people offered sacrifices to the binary star, prayed for good luck, and then burned the incense bridge, symbolizing that the binary star had crossed the incense bridge and met happily. This fragrant bridge originated from the legendary magpie bridge legend.