What's the festival on July 7th?

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival in China, China Valentine's Day. It is the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day birthday, and it is named "Chinese Valentine's Day" because of the worship activities held on the evening of July 7. According to folklore, the weaver girl is a beautiful, clever and ingenious fairy when the cowherd and the magpie bridge meet in the sky on Tanabata night every year.

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People's worship of the natural phenomenon of cowherd and weaver girl has a long history, which can be traced back to ancient times. The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originates from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way, but also corresponded the stars with the ground areas one by one.

This correspondence is called "dividing star" in astronomy and "dividing line" in underground. Simply put, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky with the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation is mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.

Baidu Encyclopedia-July 7th