The Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seventh Festival, Qixi Festival, etc., is a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", with love as the theme and women as the main body. festival.

The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Chinese Valentine's Day comes from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded astronomical star areas and geographical areas. In astronomy, this correspondence is called "divided stars". In terms of geography, it is called "dividing field"; the record of the geographical dividing line corresponding to the astrology of Cowherd and Weaver Girl can be found in "Hanshu Geography": "The land of Guangdong is also the dividing line between Morning Glory and Wu Nu".

Through historical development, the astronomical astrology of Cowherd and Weaver Girl has been endowed with beautiful and personified legends, as well as rich humanistic connotations such as folk women begging for wisdom and praying for marriage from Vega. Because Qixi Festival has given connotations related to love, it has become a festival symbolizing love. It is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China. In contemporary times, it has given rise to the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day". ?[

The Chinese Valentine's Day is the earliest love festival in the world. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, people sit and watch the Altair and the Vega, visit their close friends, pay homage to the Weaver, pray for marriage, learn about female beauty, beg for luck, pray for blessings, etc. Folk traditional Chinese Valentine's Day customs. In ancient times, countless loving men and women in the world would pray to the stars for a happy marriage during the "Magpie Bridge Party" between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Chinese Valentine's Day night.

The Chinese Valentine's Day originated in China. Some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam, also have the tradition of celebrating the Chinese Valentine's Day. On May 20, 2006, the Chinese Valentine's Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

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Chinese Valentine's Day customs

Threading needles and begging for skills

Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty records: "Colored girls of the Han Dynasty often On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a needle with seven holes should be pierced in the Kaijin Tower, and everyone will learn from it."

Taking advantage of the moonlight, young women in new clothes sat together, holding five-color silk threads and nine-hole needles arranged continuously, threading the needles.

It is said that those who cross all the threads quickly are called "deqiao". This is the earliest record of begging for tricks in my country.

A woman begs for skill and a wise heart with seven exquisite orifices.

Happy spiders should be clever

Slightly later than threading needles and begging for cleverness, it roughly started in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Liang Zongmao of the Southern Dynasty recorded in "Jingchu's Age of Ages": It was evening, and melons and fruits were laid out in the court to beg for cleverness. If there is a happy net on the melon, it is considered to be a good match.

For girls, the Qiqiao Festival is also a festival for fun and fun.

On July 7, the women put little spiders in small boxes, and the next day, whoever has the densest and most perfect spider web will be the one who has "delicacy".

Seeking seeds from seeds

A few days before Chinese Valentine's Day, spread a layer of soil on a small wooden board and sow corn seeds. After a few days, green shoots will appear.

Put some small huts, flowers and trees on it to make it look like a farmhouse and village, which is called a "shell board".

Soak mung beans, wheat, etc. in a magnetic bowl, wait for them to grow buds, and then tie them into a bunch with red and blue silk ropes, which is called "seed growth".

There are also wax baby dolls that women buy and float at home, thinking they are auspicious for having a child, which is called "huasheng".

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