When is the Qiqiao Festival in the lunar calendar?

The Qiqiao Festival falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Qixi Festival, also known as Double Seventh Festival, Qiao Qiao Festival, Women's Day, Girl's Day, Xiangqiao Hui and Qiao Jie Hui, etc., which originates from the legend of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge".

Legend has it that the seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor, the Weaver Girl, was enviable for her mind, skill, and good weaving skills. Therefore, women in the world worshiped her to pray for wisdom, dexterity, and happiness. As a result, "Begging for Skills" came into being on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.

” activity, thus forming the Qiqiao Festival.

Festival legend: This festival is related to a mythical story. It is recorded in "Nineteen Ancient Poems" of the Han Dynasty Yuefu: "Altair is far away, and the Han woman is on the bright river. Her slender hands are slender, and she is tinkering with the machine. She is in a state of confusion all day long, and her tears are as cold as rain; River Han

Clear and shallow, how far away from each other they are! The water is full of water, and the pulse is speechless. "The poem describes the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl who are separated on both sides of the Milky Way and can only meet once a year.

According to legend, the Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven. Not only is she beautiful, but she is also clever and good at threading needlework. She is the embodiment of hard work, intelligence and kindness.

As a result, the folk custom of begging for clever things on Chinese Valentine's Day began.

On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, families with girls usually put out melons, fruits, and red flowers to beg the Weaver Girl to teach them their skills in spinning and embroidery.