Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as China Valentine's Day, is one of the traditional festivals in China. It is usually celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This festival originated from ancient legends in China and is regarded as Valentine's Day in China. On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, people will celebrate and commemorate this legend and express love and romance. Tanabata in 2023 is Tuesday, August 22nd.
Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship seven sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folklore of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, the theme of blessing, begging for cleverness and love, and women as the main body. The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the planetarium and geographical areas. This correspondence was called "dividing the stars" in astronomy and "dividing the fields" in geography.
The implication of wearing the red line on Tanabata
Because there is a legend that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on this day, people wear red lines under the moon on Qixi Festival in order to build a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, according to legend, on the day 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 them as ingenious as the Weaver Girl and praying that they can have a happy marriage, thus forming Chinese Valentine's Day.
To sum up, Tanabata is on Tuesday, August 22nd. Chinese Valentine's Day has strong emotional and cultural connotations in China. It is a day for people to celebrate love and romance, and it is also a time to inherit traditional culture, pray and communicate.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Valentine's Day