About Chinese Valentine's Day: Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Begging Clever Festival, Seven Clever Festival or Seven Sisters' Birthday, originated in China and is a traditional festival in Chinese areas and East Asian countries. The festival comes from the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (it was changed to July 7 in the solar calendar in Japan after the Meiji Restoration). Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging for skills, people call this day "Begging for Skills Festival" or "Girls' Day" and "Daughter's Day". On May 20th, 2006, Tanabata was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council, China.
The origin of Chinese Valentine's Day is related to the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl circulated among the people. Its earliest origin may be in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as The Book of Songs, Dadong: "When you fall, the Weaver Girl makes seven waves all day long. Although it is seven, it is not a service chapter; If you look at the cow, you don't recognize the box. " There is also the Ming Dynasty Luo Qi's "Source of Things": "Chu Huaiwang first set Qixi." However, Tanabata at that time was a sacrifice to Altair and Vega, and there was no story behind it. It was not until the Han Dynasty that its details were linked with the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and it officially became a festival for women. For example, "Customs Pass" written by Ying Shao in the Eastern Han Dynasty reads: "The weaver girl should cross the river on Tanabata, making magpies overseas Chinese." Another example is "Miscellanies of Xijing", which says: "Women of Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Building on July 7th, and all of them are Xi Zhi."