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What to wear on Tanabata

You can wear a light and breezy dress, suit or formal wear, fashionable casual wear, couple's wear, etc. on the eve of July.

Women can choose a light and soft dress, which can be wedding style, lace or chic design to show women's elegance and romance. Men can choose a clean, neat suit or formal dress with a quality tie to show understated and elegant temperament.

If you plan to have a comfortable and relaxing eve, you can choose stylish casual outfits such as jeans, T-shirts or shirts to look stylish and casual. Couples can consider wearing outfits that match each other and show off sweet and complementary sentiments, such as echoes in color, pattern or design.

Introduction of Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Festival of Seven Coincidences, the Festival of Seven Sisters, the Festival of Daughters, the Begging for Coincidences Festival, the Seven Nymphets' Meeting, the Tanabata Festival Festival, the Day of the Bull Gong and the Bullwoman, and the Coincidental Eve, etc., is a traditional festival of Chinese folklore. The Tanabata Festival evolved from the worship of the starry hosts and is traditionally known as the Birthday of the Seven Sisters, so it is called Tanabata because the worship of the Seven Sisters is held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

Worshiping the Seven Sisters, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skillful craftsmanship, sitting down to watch the star of Altair and Vega, praying for a marriage, and storing water for Tanabata are all traditional customs of Tanabata. Through the development of history, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, and thus is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has even produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".