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The story of the origin of Chinese Valentine's Day.
1, Tanabata originated from people's worship of nature. According to historical documents, at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, there were records about Altair Vega. People's worship of stars is far more than Altair and Vega. They think that there are seven stars representing directions in the east, west, north and south, which are collectively called Twenty-eight Nights, of which the Big Dipper is the brightest and can be used to tell the direction at night. The first star of the Big Dipper is called Kuixing, also known as the champion. Later, with the imperial examination system, the champion in the middle school was called "Dakui Tianxia Scholar", and the scholars called Tanabata "Kuixing Festival", also known as "Book-drying Festival", keeping the trace that the earliest Tanabata originated from the worship of stars.

2. Tanabata also comes from ancient people's worship of time. "Seven" is homophonic with "period", and both the month and the day are "seven", which gives people a sense of time. In ancient China, the sun and the moon were combined with the five planets of water, fire, wood, gold and earth to be called "Seven Obsidian". Seven numbers are staged in time among the people, and the calculation of time often ends with "July 7th". In old Beijing, when doing Dojo for the dead, it was often complete with "July 7th". It is still reserved in Japanese to calculate the current "week" with "seven obsidians". "Seven" is homophonic with "auspicious", and "July 7th" has the meaning of double auspicious, which is an auspicious day. In Taiwan Province, July is called "Joy brings good luck" month. Because the shape of the happy character in cursive script is like "seventy-seven", the 77-year-old is also called "Happy Birthday".

3. The origin of Chinese Valentine's Day has always been closely linked with this folk tale-the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Generally speaking, it is about an orphan cowherd who, after being abused by his brother and sister-in-law, meets the Weaver Maid who came down to earth privately by chance, and they soon become a happy couple because of their congenial feelings. However, when the Queen Mother learned of this incident, she flew into a rage and came down to heaven in person to forcibly bring the Weaver Girl back to heaven. This loving couple will soon be separated. With the help of an old cow, the cowherd put on shoes made of cowhide and went to heaven to catch up with the Weaver Girl. When the Queen Mother saw this, she immediately pulled off the golden hairpin on her head, and a choppy Tianhe appeared. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated on both sides and could only cry relatively. Although there is an insurmountable natural barrier, their loyal love still touched the magpies, so thousands of magpies flew to build a magpie bridge and let them meet on it. 4. The Queen Mother can't do anything about it. Under the compromise, she has to allow them to meet at Queqiao on July 7th every year. The famous Chinese Valentine's Day came from this. After that, it evolved into such a form. At this time, girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars, look for the distant Altair and Vega, hoping to see their annual meeting. And pray that God can make himself as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and pray that he can also have a happy marriage. "All the way Altair, JiaoJiaoHe han female. Ying Ying Yi Shui, the pulse is speechless. " I don't know, how many people are hiding their longing and affection for beauty!