The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival in China, Chinese Valentine's Day. It is the seventh sister's birthday in the traditional sense, and it is named "Qixi" because the worship activity is held on the evening of July 7. According to folk legend, on Qixi night every year, the Weaver Girl is a beautiful, clever and ingenious fairy when the Cowherd and the Que Bridge meet in the sky.

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People's worship of the natural phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has a long history, which can be traced back to ancient times. The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancient people who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way, but also corresponded the stars with the ground areas one by one.

This correspondence is called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing lines" in the ground. To put it simply, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky with the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation was mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.

Baidu Encyclopedia-July 7th