The story about tanabata

The Story of Tanabata-Cowherd and Weaver Girl

The Weaver Girl met the Cowherd on earth. For the sake of the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl chose to stay on earth, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd gave birth to a pair of children. But the Weaver Girl is the daughter of the Jade Emperor. Finally, the Weaver Girl had to bid farewell to the Cowherd and return to heaven.

Cowherd chased the worse with two children, but was blocked by the Tianhe painted by the Queen Mother. From then on, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only look across the river with tears in their eyes. From then on, on July 7th every year, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother can't help meeting once. According to legend, on the seventh day of July, human magpies will fly to the sky to build a magpie bridge for the cowherd and weaver girl in the Milky Way.

China Valentine's Day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Beggar's Day, Georgie's Day, Double Seventh Day, Sweet Day, Sunday, Blue Night, Daughter's Day or Seven Sisters's birthday. Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients knew something about the astronomical phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The written records of geographical divisions corresponding to Cowherd and Weaver Girl in Tianwenxing District can be found in the documents of Han Dynasty. Hanshu Geography: "Guangdong (Vietnam) is also divided into cowherd and weaver girl." In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a personalized description of Tanabata: "Weaver crossing the river on Tanabata, Queqiao Meeting." Tanabata has become a festival symbolizing love because of the beautiful legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and it also has the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times. ?

In the Han Dynasty, Tanabata was endowed with the humanistic connotation of love women Vega's begging for wisdom and skills, forming the custom of begging for cleverness on Tanabata, so it was also called "begging for cleverness". Tanabata is a popular traditional cultural festival in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.

Many customs of women in China on Valentine's Day, such as embroidery, praying for the head, praying for Seven Sisters, showing flowers, fruits and embroidery (G not ng), have influenced Japan, Korean Peninsula, Viet Nam and other countries with Chinese character cultural circles.

Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a festival with the folklore of Cowherd and Weaver Girl as the carrier, love as the theme and women as the protagonist. ?

On May 20th, 2006, China Valentine's Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council?

References:

China Valentine's Day-Baidu Encyclopedia