Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship seven sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folklore of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, the theme of blessing, begging for cleverness and love, and women as the main body.

The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the planetarium and geographical areas. This correspondence was called "dividing the stars" in astronomy and "dividing the fields" in geography. According to legend, on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.

folk custom

1, Xiangqiao Club

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is the custom of Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, people come to participate and build a fragrant bridge. 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 all kinds of thick and long wrapped incense (thread incense wrapped in paper). It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.

At night, people offer sacrifices to the Double Star, beg for good fortune, and then burn the Xiangqiao, symbolizing that the Double Star has crossed the Xiangqiao and met happily. This fragrant bridge is derived from the legendary magpie bridge legend.

2. Contact dew

In rural areas of Zhejiang, it is popular to use washbasins to receive dew. Legend has it that the dew in Chinese Valentine's Day is the tears when the cowherd and the weaver girl meet. If it is put on the eyes and hands, it can make people nimble.