What is the origin of Valentine's Day in China?

Tanabata is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Valentine's Day in China, also known as Georgie's Day, Georgie's Day or Chinese Valentine's Day.

Tanabata is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women begged the Weaver girl for cleverness in the courtyard, so they called it "begging for cleverness".

Qixi Qiqiao originated in China Han Dynasty, from the worship of nature and women's Qiqiao, and was later given the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, becoming one of the most romantic festivals. Women practice needlework, pray for reed hands, worship Seven Sisters, show flowers and fruits, needlework and other customs. Far spread to Japan, the Korean peninsula, Vietnam and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.

The origin of the festival:

Women begging:

Qixi Qiqiao originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty records that "women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles on July 7 in the building, and everyone wears them", which is the earliest record of begging for cleverness in ancient literature we have seen.

Nature worship:

Qixi originated from people's worship of nature. According to historical documents, at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, there was a record of Altair Vega. People worship the stars far more than Altair and Vega. They think that there are seven stars representing directions in the east, west, north and south, which are collectively called 28 nights, among which the Big Dipper is the brightest and can be used to tell directions at night. The first star of the Big Dipper is called Kuixing, also known as the champion. Later, with the imperial examination system, the top scholar in the middle school was called "Dakui Scholar in the World", and the scholars called Tanabata "Kuixing Festival" or "Book-drying Festival", which preserved the trace that the earliest Tanabata originated from worshipping stars.

Time worship:

Qixi also comes from the ancient people's worship of time. "Seven" and "period" are homophonic, and both the month and the day are "seven", giving people a sense of time. In ancient China, the sun and moon, together with the five planets of water, fire, wood, gold and earth, were called "Seven Obsidian". Seven figures are staged in time among the people, and the calculation of time often ends with "July 7th". In old Beijing, when doing Dojo for the dead, it was often done by "July 7th". The "week" calculated by "seven obsidians" is still reserved in Japanese. "Seven" is homophonic with "auspiciousness", and "July 7th" has a double auspicious meaning, which is an auspicious day. In Taiwan Province Province, July is called "Joy brings good luck" month. Because the happy character in cursive script looks like "seventy-seven", 77 years old is also called "Happy Birthday".

Digital worship:

Tanabata is also a phenomenon of digital worship. In ancient times, people listed the seventh day of the first month, the third day of March, the fifth day of May, the seventh day of July and the ninth day of September as auspicious days, plus the even number of February 2 and the multiple of June 6. "Seven" is the number of beads in each column of the abacus, which is romantic and rigorous, giving people a mysterious aesthetic feeling. "Seven" and "wife" are homophonic, so Qixi has largely become a festival related to women.

Reproductive worship:

July 7th is a life cycle. The Yellow Emperor's classic naive theory: "Men are only eight or eight, women are only seven or seven, and the essence of heaven and earth is exhausted." "

It says that men are 8 years old and women are 7 years old. The 7-year-old woman is full of kidney qi, and her hair becomes longer when she changes her teeth. On the 27th day, the pulse passed. Tiangui is the essence of kidney, and acts as governor of two veins. In Chinese medicine, "it is a sea of yin and yang, with five qi and chastity", which means that you can have children when you come to menstruation on February 27. Panax notoginseng has general kidney qi, long and fully developed final teeth. 47. Strong bones and muscles, extremely long hair and strong physique, reaching the peak. On May 7th, Yangming's pulse failed, his face became brown and his hair began to fall off. Sixty-seven: "Sanyang pulse declines in the upper, the face is burnt, and the hair begins to turn white." July 7 is the end of a life cycle, that is, "any pulse is weak, the pulse is too strong, the sky is exhausted, the tunnel is impassable, and the shape is bad without children." The number "seven" refers to the west, so the meeting on July 7 should be the final birth. I ching: "repeat the same mistakes, come back in seven days, and follow the right path." Confucius' Ying Da Book said: "After the sun's yang disappeared, it took seven days for the sun's yang to revive. This is the natural principle of heaven, so it is called heaven. " "Come back" means going back, that is, rebirth and reincarnation, so the soul is exhausted in 7749 days and full in 7749 days.