Is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar China’s Qixi Festival? Is Qixi Festival a traditional festival?
Everyone has heard of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Then , is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar China's Chinese Valentine's Day? Is the Chinese Valentine's Day a traditional Chinese festival? July is also called the "Orchid Month" because many varieties of orchids choose to bloom in July, so the orchids in July are filled with fragrance and are called the "Orchid Month." If you want to know more about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please follow Mr. Shui Mo’s website!Is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar China’s Qixi Festival?Answer: The seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is China's Qixi Festival."Qixi" falls on the seventh day of the lunar month, and is also known as the "Seven Sisters' Birthday" in ancient times. It is also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Daughters' Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qinianshui, the Qiaoxi, the Niu Gong Niu Po Day, and the Double Seventh. The Chinese Valentine's Day is both a festival to worship the Seventh Sister and a love festival. It is a festival based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" and with the themes of praying for blessings, seeking cleverness, and love. Sitting and watching the Altair and Vega stars on the Chinese Valentine's Day is a folk custom. According to legend, on this night every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and dexterous fairy. On this night, women on earth would beg her for wisdom and skills, and also ask her for a happy marriage, so the seventh day of July is also known as the Qiqiao Festival. The custom of begging for skills on the Qixi Festival began in the Han Dynasty. In the "Miscellaneous Notes of Western Capital" by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is a record that "beautiful women of the Han Dynasty often threaded seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Tower on July 7th, and everyone was used to it." This is the earliest record of begging for skills that we have seen in ancient documents. Is Chinese Valentine’s Day a traditional festival?Answer: Qixi Festival is a traditional Chinese festival.The Chinese Valentine's Day, which has been recorded in writing, began in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (the Book of Documents era) and is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. In Tang and Song Dynasty poetry, women's begging for skills was mentioned repeatedly. Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem saying "The dim stars are adorned with pearly light, and the palace maids are busy begging for skills on the Qixi Festival." According to "Kaiyuan Tianbao Yishi", Emperor Taizong of Tang and his concubines held banquets in the Qing Palace on the Qixi Festival every year, and the palace maids each begged for skills. This custom has been popular among the people and passed down from generation to generation. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qixi Festival was quite grand, and there was even a market in the capital city that sold items for the Qixi Festival, which was known as the Qixi Market. Song Luoye and Jin Yingzhi compiled "Zuiweng Tanlu" which said: "On the Qixi Festival, people buy and sell items for begging for cleverness in front of Pan Tower. From July 1st, the carriages and horses are very congested. Three days before the Qixi Festival, the traffic is blocked and people cannot get out. The traffic is not dispersed until nightfall." On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council. It is now considered "Chinese Valentine's Day". As the saying goes, "A good fate is not as good as good luck." A person's destiny is already determined, and the only thing that can be controlled is his or her "luck." Unexpected changes in the world may happen at any time, so use Mr. Shui Mo's [Premium Calculation] function to learn more about your fortune in 2019! |
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