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Chinese valentine's day
Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival also provides an opportunity for unmarried men and women to get to know each other. In the traditional society, young girls are not allowed to go out freely, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find objects for themselves by the way. During the Lantern Festival, it is also a time for young men and women to meet their lovers.
In Taiwan Province, there is also a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables at midnight snack will marry a good husband, commonly known as "stealing onions, marrying a good wife" and "stealing vegetables, marrying a good husband". Girls who hope to have a happy marriage will steal onions or vegetables in the garden on the night of midnight snack, hoping for a happy family in the future. There are also hundreds of dances and performances in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty, with thousands of ladies-in-waiting.
Ouyang Xiu (Health Checker) said: Last year, at the Lantern Festival, the flower market lights were like books; The moon rose above the willow tree, At dusk he had a tryst with me. Xin Qiji (Jade Case) wrote: Many people looked for it, but suddenly looking back, the man was in the dim light. It is to describe the scene of midnight snack, while the traditional opera Chen San and Wu Niang met at the Lantern Festival and fell in love at first sight. Lechang's official document and Xu Deyan made love at the Lantern Festival in second time around at midnight snack, and Yu Wenyan and Ying Niang made love at the Lantern Festival in Spring Lantern Enigma. So the Lantern Festival is also China's "Valentine's Day".
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The Origin and Legend of Valentine's Day on Qixi Festival
Qixi Begging for Cleverness originated in the Han Dynasty. In the Miscellanies of Xijing written by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is recorded that "women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Building on July 7th, and everyone is Xi Zhi", which is the earliest record of begging for cleverness that we have seen in ancient literature. In later Tang and Song poems, women's begging for cleverness was repeatedly mentioned. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian wrote a poem that "the stars are shining with pearls, and the palace moths are busy with begging for cleverness". According to "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", every time Emperor Taizong and his concubines had a banquet in the Qing Palace on Tanabata, the ladies-in-waiting begged for their own ingenuity. This custom was also enduring among the people and continued from generation to generation.
On the occasion of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qiaqiao was quite grand, and there was also a market in the capital that monopolized Qiaqiao items, which was called Qiaqiao City by the world. Song Luoye and Jin Ying's series "Talk about Drunken Weng" said: "On Tanabata, Panlou bought and sold gimmicks. From July 1 ST, the horses and chariots swallowed, and three days before the Qixi Festival, the horses and chariots were not allowed to pass, and they stopped again and again, and they did not get it until the night. " Here, we can infer the lively scene of Qiqiao Festival at that time from the grand occasion of buying Qiqiao objects from Qiqiao City. People began to set up articles for begging for cleverness from the first day of July, and the market for begging for cleverness was full of traffic and people. By the time of Tanabata, the market for begging for cleverness had become a sea of people, and it seemed as if it was the biggest festival-Spring Festival, which showed that the festival for begging for cleverness was one of the favorite festivals of the ancients.
The Legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl
Chinese Valentine's Day has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four major folk love legends in China.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a clever and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City. His parents died early, so he had to live with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law Ma Shi was vicious and often abused him, forcing him to do a lot of work. One autumn, his sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle and gave him nine cows, but he was told to wait until he had ten cows, so the Cowherd had no choice but to drive them out of the village.
Cowherd drove the cows into the mountain alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forests, he sat under the tree and was sad. He didn't know when he could drive ten cows home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. When he learned what had happened to him, he smiled and said to him, "Don't be sad. There is a sick old cow in Funiu Mountain. You go and feed it well. When the old cow is well, you can wait for it."
Cowherd walked a long way over mountains and mountains, and finally found the sick old cow. Seeing that the old cow was seriously ill, he went to fetch bundles of grass for the old cow. After feeding it for three days in a row, the old cow looked up and told him that he was a big fairy in the sky, but he was sent down to heaven because he broke his leg and could not move. His injury needs to be washed with dew of flowers for a month. Cowherd took care of old Niu Yi carefully for a month, collecting flowers for the old cow during the day and sleeping next to the old man at night. When the old cow recovered, Cowherd happily drove ten cows home.
After returning home, my sister-in-law still treated him badly. She harmed him several times and was rescued by the old cow. At last, my sister-in-law became angry and drove the cowherd out of the house, and the cowherd only wanted the old cow to accompany him.
One day, the weaver girl in the sky played games with the fairies and bathed in the river. With the help of the old cow, the cowherd got to know the weaver girl, and they had mutual affection. Later, the weaver girl secretly came to the world and became the wife of the cowherd. The Weaver Girl also distributed the wild silkworms brought from the sky to everyone, and taught everyone to raise silkworms, spin silks and weave bright silks and satins.
After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, men plowed and women weaved, and they had a boy, a girl and two children, and the family lived happily. But the good times didn't last long, and it soon made the Emperor of Heaven know that the heavenly queen herself came down to earth and forcibly brought the Weaver Girl back to heaven, and the loving couple were separated.
There is no way for the cowherd to go to heaven, or the old cow told him that after his death, he could make shoes out of his skin and wear them to heaven. Cowherd did as the old cow said, put on shoes made of cowhide, and took his children with him. When he saw that he was about to catch up, I'm afraid the Queen Mother pulled out the golden hairpin on her head, and a choppy Tianhe appeared. Cowherd and Weaver were separated on both sides, and they could only cry relatively. Their loyal love touched the magpies, and thousands of magpies flew in to build a magpie bridge, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the magpie bridge. The Queen Mother had no choice but to allow them to meet on July 7 every year.
Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, according to legend, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the starry sky, and look for the Cowherd and the Vega on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, begging God to make themselves as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and praying that they can have a happy marriage, thus forming Chinese Valentine's Day.
Later, Chinese Valentine's Day became a day for young men and women to express their love for each other, and it became Valentine's Day in China. Boys expressed their love by sending flowers, while girls expressed their loyalty by giving gifts or ornaments woven by themselves.