Valentine's Day in China is not only a festival to worship Seven Sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging and courtship, and women as the main body.
The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. In ancient times, planetariums were associated with geographical areas. This correspondence is called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing 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.
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On a clear summer and autumn night, the sky is full of stars, and a galaxy runs across the north and south. On the east and west banks of the Milky Way, there is a shining star across a river, that is Altair and Vega.
The actress Wu later evolved into a mythical goddess. People called her Seven Sisters, Fairy and Seven Mothers. She is the patron saint of Zhiyun, lovers, women and children. Countless sentient men and women in the world will pray for the happiness of marriage under the starry sky on the night of Qixi.
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