Origin of the festival

Qixi Festival, formerly known as Qiqiao Festival. Qixi Festival is a festival of begging for clever things. This festival originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty states that "Hancai women often pierce seven-hole needles on July 7th to draw pictures of cows and women on stone portraits of the Han Dynasty

The record of "Kaijinlou, everyone is accustomed to it" is the earliest record of begging for skill that we have seen in ancient documents. "Qixi" originated from people's worship of nature. Judging from historical documents, at least three to four thousand years ago, with the emergence of people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, records about Altair and Vega began. People's worship of stars goes far beyond Altair and Vega. They believe that there are seven stars representing directions in the east, west, south, and north, collectively called the Twenty-Eight Constellations. Among them, the Big Dipper is the brightest and can be used to identify directions at night. The first star of the Big Dipper is called Kuixing, also known as the leader. Later, with the establishment of the imperial examination system, the number one winner was called "Da Kui Tianxia Shi". Scholars called the Chinese Valentine's Day the "Kui Star Festival", also known as the "Book Exhibition Festival", maintaining the earliest traces of the Chinese Valentine's Day originating from the worship of stars. "Qixi Festival" also comes from ancient people's worship of time. "Qi" has the same pronunciation as "period", and both the month and the day are "Qi", giving people a sense of time. The ancient Chinese combined the sun, moon and the five planets of water, fire, wood, metal and earth into the name "Qi Yao". The number seven in the folk is manifested in stages in time, and when calculating time, "seven to seven" is often used as the final outcome. In old Beijing, when doing ashram for the deceased, it was often considered complete to complete "Qiqi". Calculating the current "week" with "Nichiyo" is still reserved in Japanese. "Qi" is homophonic with "吉", and "Qiqi" also means double auspiciousness. It is an auspicious day. In Taiwan, July is known as the month of "good luck in happiness". Because the shape of the word "xi" in cursive script is like "seventy-seven" written consecutively, the age of seventy-seven is also called "xishou".