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About the Double-Seventh Day
Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the Chinese Double-Seventh Festival, which is also the Chinese Valentine’s Day. There is an ancient legend widely circulated about this festival. A long time ago there was a man named Cowherd who herded cattle and fell in love with a weaver girl named Weaver Girl. This pair of lovers are separated by the vast Milky Way, facing each other from afar. They can only meet each other on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. This ancient love story, along with the traditional values ??and customs it embodies, has been passed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, every Chinese Valentine's Day, young women would dress up in costumes, look at the moon, read needles, and beg for skills to commemorate the annual gathering of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge. Nowadays, traditional customs such as asking for needles and begging for tricks are no longer popular during the Chinese Valentine's Day. However, as Chinese Valentine's Day, people in love will still express their love to each other at this special moment and pray together for true love to last forever!
The seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar is known as Qixi Festival, or Chinese Lovers' Day and there is an old story behind it. A long long time ago, there was a poor cowherd , Niulang. He fell in love with Zhinu,"the Girl Weaver". But the couple was separated by a wide swollen river in the sky and can only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This sad love story , with traditional values ??and customs from it, has passed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, young women performed certain activities on this special festival, such as threading a needle with their holiday best while facing the moon to pray for various kinds of ingenuity and celebrate the annual meeting of the cowherd and the Girl Weaver. Nowadays Chinese people no longer hold such activities. But they still regard it as Chinese Lovers' Day when loves express true affections to each other and pray that their love reign as long as the earth endures.
Chinese Valentine's Day
Li He
The present day is dark in Beipu, and the curtain is sad at midnight.
The magpie's poem threads the moon, and the flowers enter the exposure building.
There is a golden mirror in the sky, and a jade hook in the world.
Qiantang Su Xiaoxiao, more worthy of autumn
Chinese Valentine's Day
Cui Guofu
The prefect of the Xianhuang clan is full of affection for Chinese Valentine's Day.
Fanning the wind creates a jade leak, and setting water to write the Milky Way.
Your Excellency, you will be presented with books, and you will be exposed in your boudoir.
Thinking of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when will the blue bird pass by?
Chinese Valentine's Day
Du Mu
The clouds and the moon and the earth pass by each other. Don't regret it until the end of the year.
What I hate the most is the car-washing rain in the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know how to turn back and cross the Tianhe River.
Chinese Valentine's Day
Wen Tingyun
The magpie has returned to the swallow for two long days, and the green moon in the southwest is like a hook.
The stars turn right in the sky every year, and the water of separation in the world flows eastward.
The golden wind blows into the trees at night, and the sky is full of silver and autumn.
Su Xiaohengtang leads to Guijiu, but it should not be clear and shallow, separated by morning glory.
Chinese Valentine's Day
Du Shenyan
The white dew contains the bright moon, and the green clouds cut off the Jianghe River.
The sky street turns seven times, and the pavilion road and the two gods pass by.
Wearing Qiang and wearing a ring, the fragrant banquet blows Qiluo.
Every year ends tonight, and there are many opportunities and feelings.
Chinese Valentine's Day
Yang Pu
Why should I invite the Weaver Girl to play with the golden shuttle if I don't know what the morning glory means?
Every year, I beg for luck in the world. There are so many coincidences in the Taoist world
Chinese Valentine's Day
Yan Shu
There are not many bucket handles in the cloud curtain, and the magpie is careless and the crow is so slow that the bridge is too late.
If you teach the Jingwei to fill the rivers, the water will still be used up.
Chinese Valentine's Day
Yan Shu
The Baizi Pond is deep with green moss, and the nine-light lanterns are all green and floating.
In what year will Tiansun Baojia stay? Grandma’s wheel will come this night.
In the empty space, there is a feast of powder and dew, but in the stillness, the pearls are bright and clear.
The Autumn River keeps looking at each other, how can it be the only thing in the world that is sad?