Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Girl's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qinianghui, Qixi Festival, Niu Gong Gong Po Day, Qiao Xi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Qixi Festival evolved from the worship of stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. Because the worship ceremony for the "Seventh Sister" is held on July 7th, it is named "Qixi Festival".

It is the traditional custom of the Chinese Valentine's Day to worship the Seventh Sister, pray for blessings and wishes, beg for skills, sit and watch the Altair and Vega, pray for marriage, and store water for the Chinese Valentine's Day. Through historical development, Qixi Festival has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love. It is therefore considered the most romantic traditional festival in China. In contemporary times, it has even given birth to the name "Chinese Valentine's Day". cultural meaning.

The Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship the Seventh Sister, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", with the themes of praying for blessings, begging for skill, and love, and with women as the main body. .

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". Geographically speaking, it is called "division". Legend has it that on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky.