The true meaning of Qixi Festival is to worship the Seventh Sister.
The Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship the Seventh Sister, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", with the themes of praying for blessings, begging for skill, and love, and with women as the main body. . The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Chinese Valentine's Day comes from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded astronomical star areas and geographical areas. This correspondence is called "divided stars" in terms of astronomy, and "divided stars" in terms of geography. Divide”.
It is said that on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky. The Qixi Festival began in ancient times, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, Qixi Festival was an exclusive festival for beautiful women. It is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. The event of worshiping the "Seventh Sister" is held on the seventh night of July.
Hence the name "Qixi Festival". Worshiping the Seventh Sister, praying for blessings and wishes, begging for skills, sitting and watching the Altair and Vega, praying for marriage, and storing water for the Chinese Valentine's Day are traditional customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day. Through historical development, Qixi Festival has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love. It is therefore considered the most romantic traditional festival in China. In contemporary times, it has even given birth to the name "Chinese Valentine's Day". cultural meaning.
Customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day:
1. Qiaoqiao Rice
The Chinese Valentine's Day is one of the traditional festivals in my country, among which Qiaoqiao Rice is an interesting way of begging. Way. In Shandong, girls gather grain and vegetables to make dumplings. They are blessed with money, skill with needles, and early marriages with dates. In addition, there is also the custom of threading needles to beg for skills and giving gifts to others. The person who gives the gift hopes that the child will be clever and can get the candy in the image of the Weaver Girl. These customs are all part of the Chinese Valentine's Day and reflect people's yearning for love and blessings.
2. Plant seeds to give birth to children
On the Qixi Festival, people will plant seeds to give birth to children. This is a Han nationality festival custom. By spreading a layer of soil on a small wooden board, sowing corn seeds, allowing them to grow green tender seedlings, and then arranging them into small huts, flowers and trees, to create the appearance of a small village in Tianshe, which is called "Ke". "Board", or soak mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc. in a magnetic bowl, wait for them to grow buds, and then tie them into a bunch with red and blue silk ropes, which is called "seed growth". It is a necessity in life and a skill in human life.