Eastern Jin Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellany" has "Han color women often to the seventh day of the seventh month to wear seven-hole needle in the Kai Lapel Building, people are practicing" records, which is the earliest in the ancient literature on the begging for coincidental records.

On a clear summer and fall night, the stars in the sky shine brightly, a Milky Way across the north and south, the east and west banks of the Milky Way, each with a shining star, looking across the river, far away from each other, that is, Altair and Vega.

Folk legend has it that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month every year, it is the time when the heavenly Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd meet at the magpie bridge, and the Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever and dexterous nymph. Girls in this night to the sky's bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, towards the sky to worship, begging the goddess in the sky can give them intelligent mind and dexterous hands, so that their own knitting red skill skillful, but also begging for love and marriage marriage coincidental match.

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The Tanabata Festival, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Begging Day, the Festival of the Seven Coincidences, double seven, incense day, week, orchid night, daughter of the Festival or the seven Sisters of the Birthday and so on. The earliest "Tanabata" originated from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, as early as in ancient times, the ancients have recognized the celestial phenomena of the cowherd and the weaving maiden.

The written record of the astronomical star area corresponding to the geographical division of the Tanabata Festival is found in the Han Dynasty literature, "Han Shu - Geography Zhi": "Yue (Yue), Altair (Cowherd), Wu Wu (Weaving Maiden) of the division of the field also."

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