When is the day the Cowherd and the Weaveress meet?

The day of the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, called Tanabata.

The Tanabata Festival is not only a festival to worship the seven sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the theme of praying for blessings, begging for coincidences, and love, with women as the main body, based on the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.

The "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" of Tanabata comes from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the astronomical star area with the geographic area, and this correspondence was called "star division" in terms of astronomy and "field division" in terms of geography. This correspondence is known as "the division of stars" for astronomy and "the division of fields" for geography. According to legend, every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.

Origin of the Tanabata Festival:

The Tanabata Festival began in the ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, Tanabata was an exclusive festival for pretty girls. Among the many folklore of Tanabata, some of them gradually disappeared, but there are still quite a few of them being continued by people.

The Tanabata Festival originated in China, and is also celebrated traditionally in some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam.