What's the date of Qixi Valentine's Day? What's the date of Qixi Valentine's Day?

What's the date of Qixi Valentine's Day? What's the date of Qixi Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

In China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as China Valentine's Day, some people call it "Qiaoqi Festival", "Chinese Valentine's Day", "Daughter's Day" or "Qixi Valentine's Day", and this day is called "China Valentine's Day" by foreigners. This is the most romantic festival in China and the most important day for girls in the past.

Tanabata Valentine's Day is also called "Week". Wang Bo's Qixi Fu: "The spirit is in the week, and the gods are in the moon." Compare a week with the moon and the evening, and point out the two most beautiful and touching nights related to love and love in all seasons of the year. Therefore, future generations call the auspicious day for men and women to get married "Zhou".

It is a folk custom to sit and watch the cowherd and weaver girl on Valentine's Day. According to legend, this night every year is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. Legend has it that on Valentine's Day on Qixi, you can look up and see the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, and you can eavesdrop on their love story when they meet in the sky under the melon and fruit shelf.

The seventh day of July is also called Begging for Clevership Festival. The custom of begging for cleverness on Qixi 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. In later Tang and Song poems, women's begging for cleverness was also repeatedly mentioned. Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem, "The stars shine with pearls, and the officials are busy begging for cleverness on Tanabata". According to (the Tianbao Legacy of Kaiyuan), every time Emperor Taizong and his concubines held a banquet in the official banquet on Tanabata, the ladies-in-waiting sought their own skills. This custom is also enduring among the people and passed down from generation to generation. Legend has it that the Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. On this night, women in the world put seasonal fruits and vegetables in front of the bright moon in the sky, prostrating themselves in worship, begging the weaver girl to give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands, and even begging for love to marry the Sui Dynasty.

The legend of Qixi Valentine's Day

Cowherd is a hardworking and kind young man in the world. He lost his parents when he was a child and lived with his brother and sister-in-law. Although his brother loves his brother, he can't offend his cruel sister-in-law. Cowherd is busy herding cattle and chopping wood every day, but he is hungry and has a very uncomfortable life. Watching the cowherd grow up, my sister-in-law's property is also very rich, and some people say it is rich. Property is the fruit of Cowherd's hard work. Sister-in-law is afraid that Cowherd will propose marriage and share the property equally. So he proposed to live separately early, with the kind cowherd in charge, and said nothing, as long as the old cow accompanied him day and night.

Unexpectedly, the old cow is a fairy cow. One day, he suddenly spoke. He said that the weaver girl in the sky would take a bath in the river and then take off her clothes to be the wife of the cowherd. The cowherd hid in the reeds by the river according to the instructions of the old cow, recognized the Weaver Girl, and suddenly ran over and hugged her splendid dress. The fairies were so scared that they put on their clothes and ran away. Only the Weaver Girl is shy and doesn't know what to do. Cowherd sent clothes and proposed to Weaver Girl. Cowherd's behavior is very similar to that of robbing relatives among ethnic minorities, but Weaver saw that Cowherd was an honest and kind young man and agreed. After marriage, men plowed and women wove, lived happily, and gave birth to a man and a woman. Later, the old cow got sick and spoke again before she died. She asked the cowherd to skin her, which would be useful in an emergency. When the old cow died, the cowherd skinned it and hid it according to the old cow's words.

The weaver girl was originally the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven. How can she marry a mortal on earth? The Queen Mother was very angry and ordered the gods to come down to earth to catch the Weaver Maid and send it back to the Heavenly Palace. The cowherd came back from the field and disappeared from the weaver girl. He is very anxious. He suddenly remembered the advice of the old cow, and quickly provoked a pair of children with a laundry list, put on cowhide and went out. Unconsciously, he was as light as a feather and flew into the sky. On the verge of catching up with Weaver Girl, the children shouted happily to their mother. The heavenly queen was in a hurry, and quickly pulled off the gold on her head and drew a row. A big river with rolling waves immediately appeared in front of her eyes. A happy couple were separated on both sides of the Tianhe River.

The Weaver Girl was so angry that she dropped the shuttle. The Queen Mother asked her to knit, and she was lazy to fight against the Queen Mother. Finally, the Queen Mother gave in and allowed the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet once a year on July 7th.

Online valentine's day introduction

2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the century, an online festival spontaneously organized by hundreds of millions of netizens-online Valentine's Day rose in the Internet world. This is the first fixed festival in the virtual network world, which is scheduled for May 20th and May 2nd1day every year, because the homonym of "520" and "52 1" is "I love you".

According to the difference between "0" and "1", 520 is mainly a festival for women, and 52 1 is mainly a festival for men. Men can choose to declare "520" (I love you) to their wives, girlfriends or favorite goddesses on May 20th, and May 2nd1is the day to confirm the answer. Touched women remember to reply "52 1" to their husbands, boyfriends or favorite male gods (I do, I love you). Therefore, the "Internet Valentine's Day" on May 20th and May 20th at 2 1 every year has also become an auspicious day for couples to get together to register for marriage and hold a grand wedding reception.

On the day of the festival, online shopping became a tide, and offline marriages got together. The news about "520" was screened in the circle of friends. There is not only the show of love between couples, but also the promotion war of merchants. Online Valentine's Day has set off a wave of giving gifts with red envelopes, which has become a national carnival and a new folk custom.