Is Valentine's Day in China in memory of Cowherd and Weaver Girl?

Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Seven Qiao Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Valentine's Day in China, which originated from the worship of stars, is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata. It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the seven sisters, pray, seek skillful art, sit and watch morning glory and weave stars, pray for marriage and store water on Qixi.

After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, thus being regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and even having the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

Festival influence

Influenced by China culture, the Japanese also have the tradition of Valentine's Day in China, which they call "Chinese Valentine's Day". Japanese Valentine's Day in China originated in China, and it is said that it was introduced in Nara era. Since the mid-Nara era, Japanese courts and upper classes have followed the example of Tang Palace, and Chinese Valentine's Day, Nvhong and Qixi poems have become a common practice. It continues the custom and habit of "seeking cleverness", but it has nothing to do with love.

Valentine's Day in China was originally on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan abolished the lunar calendar, so Chinese Valentine's Day in Japan is the seventh day of the solar calendar every year.

Tanabata in Japan is not mainly used to pray for love, but to pray for girls to have good skills. At this time of the year, adults and children get together and write down their wishes and poems on colorful long poems, which are hung on small bamboos in their own yards together with decorations made of paper. This custom began in the edo period.

In the days near Tanabata, bamboo trees will be found in many places, and wishing trees will be set up in places where shops sell summer clothes and supermarkets check out.