The Weaver Girl met the Cowherd on earth. For the sake of the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl chose to stay on earth, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd gave birth to a pair of children. But the Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Jade Emperor. Finally, the Weaver Girl had to bid farewell to the Cowherd and return to heaven.

Cowherd and his two children chased him to the worse gate, but he was blocked by the Tianhe River drawn by the Queen Mother. From then on, Cowherd and Weaver Girl could only look across the river with tears in their eyes, and for ever, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother could not help but meet once a year on July 7. According to legend, on the seventh day of July, the magpies on earth will fly to heaven and build a magpie bridge for Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the Milky Way.

Extended information Chinese Valentine's Day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Beggar's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seven, Sweet Day, Sunday, Blue Night, Daughter's Day or Seventh Sister's Birthday. "Tanabata" originated from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients knew something about the astronomical phenomena of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

The written records of the geographical division corresponding to the cowherd and the weaver girl in Tianwenxing District can be found in the documents of the Han Dynasty. The Geography of Hanshu: "Guangdong (Vietnam) is also the division between the cowherd and the weaver girl." In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a personalized description of Tanabata: "The weaver girl crossed the river on Tanabata and made the magpie a bridge." Tanabata has become a festival symbolizing love because of the beautiful legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and it also has the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times. ?

In the Han Dynasty, Tanabata was endowed with the humanistic connotation of women begging for wisdom and skill from Vega, forming the custom of Tanabata begging for skill, so it was also called "begging for skill". Chinese Valentine's Day is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.

Many customs of women in Chinese Valentine's Day, such as needlework, prayigōng for Fu Lushou, praying for seven sisters, displaying flowers, fruits and needlework (G not ng), have influenced Japanese, Korean Peninsula, Vietnamese and other countries with Chinese character cultural circles.

Chinese Valentine's Day is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a festival with the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as the carrier, love as the theme and women as the protagonist. ?

On may 20th, 2006, Chinese Valentine's Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the people's Republic of China and the State Council?

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Chinese Valentine's Day-Baidu encyclopedia