How popular is the Chinese Valentine's Day in China?

There is no custom of celebrating the Chinese Valentine's Day in our hometown. The most solemn festival in the seventh month of the lunar ca

How popular is the Chinese Valentine's Day in China?

There is no custom of celebrating the Chinese Valentine's Day in our hometown. The most solemn festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar is July 14th.

Chinese Valentine's Day is a traditional festival in China.

But older friends should have the impression that the Chinese Valentine's Day has been repackaged as "Chinese Valentine's Day", which actually happened in the last ten years or so.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is of course the earliest day in the lunar calendar. According to folklore, on this day the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet in the sky.

Attaching the stars in the sky into fairy tales is a narrative method shared by many nations in the world, and China is no exception.

According to research, the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl probably originated during the Western Zhou Dynasty.

July 7th is the day when the Ox and the Girl meet, which is the earliest meaning of this date.

With the spread of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, some folk activities began to take place to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on this day. For example, there is a legend about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the Yunmeng Qin Slips. In the "Sanfu Yellow Picture", there is also a bridge built on the Wei River to attract the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Activity.

These activities gradually spread to the court during the Western Han Dynasty. For example, it is recorded in "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing": "The colorful girls of the Han Dynasty often pierced the seven-hole needle in the Kaijin Tower on July 7th, and they all learned to practice it." The Chinese Valentine's Day was the most popular in later generations.

The main custom of needlework and begging for skills had already appeared at this time.

However, at this time, people generally still called this festival "July 7th", and the abbreviation of "Qixi Festival" did not come until after the Eastern Han Dynasty.