Chinese traditional festivals show the magnificent picture of our national culture with grand and rich contents and colorful colors, which contains profound cultural connotations. In ancient Chinese poetry, there are a considerable number of works related to festivals, with excellent works overlapping. These ancient poems record the characteristics of holiday customs in their unique forms, vividly reflect the situation and mood of ancient people when they celebrated these traditional festivals, fully explore the significance of traditional festivals, give them richer humanistic feelings and enrich the connotation of traditional festivals. Let's take a look at the legend about Qixi.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is the traditional Chinese folk festival "Qixi", also known as the Beggar's Day.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a beautiful legend. Its origin is very early, and it is recorded in the Book of Songs Dadong: "There is a Han in Wei Tian, and there is light in prison; You are a weaver girl, and you are seven times a day; Although it is seven, it is not a newspaper. " There are weaver girls here, but there are no cows and no story factors. According to textual research, Nineteen Ancient Poems, The Altair, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, is the earliest work with the theme of Cowherd and Weaver Girl and a relatively complete plot. Cao Pi's "Yan Ge Xing" also has the sentence "Let the Cow and the Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance".

According to legend, after the weaver girl on the east bank of Tianhe married the cowherd in Hexi, the brocade weaving was a little slow, and the Emperor was furious, so he drove the weaver girl back, only allowing them to meet on the bridge built by magpies on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month every year. Ying Shao's "Customs and Righteousness" in the Han Dynasty said: "The weaver girl should cross the river on Tanabata, making the magpie a bridge. According to legend, on the seventh day, the magpie's head was upset for no reason, because Liang Yidu crossed the weaver girl." The story about the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid in the Chronicle of Jingchu Age is more complete and full of myth: "To the east of the Tianhe River, there is a Weaver Maid, and the son of the Emperor of Heaven also weaves hard labor every year, weaving a brocade dress. God pitied him for being alone, and promised to marry a cowherd in Hexi. After marriage, I abandoned weaving. The Emperor of Heaven was angry and ordered him to return to Hedong so that he could meet once a year. " Another cloud says, "July 7th is the night when Petunia and Weaver get together." At this point, this mythical love tragedy story is complete.

What is related to the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is begging for cleverness. The weaver girl in myths and legends is a clever woman in the fairy world in heaven. Legend has it that her delicate hands and dancing golden shuttles can weave rosy clouds. This natural female worker, of course, is what human women yearn for. The custom of begging for cleverness on Tanabata is of course generated from this psychological motivation of the people.