English Introduction of Valentine's Day in China

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called "Qixi". The Arabic numeral "7" is written as "seven" in Chinese, while "night" means night in ancient Chinese, so "Qixi" literally means the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

This day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and the seventh is China's anger. So this explains the name of the festival "Qi". Xi means "night" in ancient Chinese, so Qixi means the night of the seventh day of July. ?

Valentine's Day in China, also called "Begging for Clevership Festival", is a day for boudoir women to pray for wisdom and skills from the Weaver Girl. The girls pray that they can have a pair of skillful hands like a weaver girl and find a husband.

But Tanabata didn't become a couple's festival until recently. At first, it was the time when unmarried love women Weavers begged for housework skills. They will also pray for a good husband. ?

Legend has it that the weaver girl in the sky fell in love with the cowherd and stayed on earth to have children with him. However, the Weaver Girl left the heaven privately and married a mortal privately, which angered the Queen Mother. So she drew a galaxy in the sky, separating the cowherd and the weaver girl, and a pair of lovers separated from each other.

Legend has it that the Weaving Goddess fell in love with a herdsman, and they eloped to live together. But her mother was angry because God and human beings are forbidden to live together. So, she created the Milky Way to separate the couple.

Fortunately, a group of magpies were moved by their love and crossed the Milky Way to build a magpie bridge. From then on, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, cowherd and weaver girl can meet at the magpie bridge.

A group of magpies were moved by their love and decided to build a bridge between the galaxies so that they could reunite on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.