What does Qixi Festival mean?

Qixi Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Girl's Day, Qiqiao Festival, Qinianghui, Qixi Festival, Niu Gong Gong Po Day, Qiao Xi, etc. It is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Chinese Valentine's Day is derived from the worship of stars. It is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. Because the event of worshiping the "Seventh Sister" is held on the seventh night of July, it is named "Qixi Festival".

Worshiping the Seventh Sister, praying for blessings and wishes, begging for skills, sitting and watching the Altair and Vega, praying for marriage, and storing water for the Chinese Valentine's Day are traditional customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day.

Through historical development, Qixi Festival has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love. It is therefore considered the most romantic traditional festival in China. In contemporary times, the name "Chinese Valentine's Day" has emerged.

cultural meaning.

The Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship the Seventh Sister, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", with the themes of praying for blessings, begging for skill, and love, and with women as the main body.

The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Chinese Valentine's Day comes from people's worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded astronomical star areas and geographical areas. This correspondence is called "divided stars" in terms of astronomy, and "divided stars" in terms of geography.

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Legend has it that on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky.