Every family begs for the moon in autumn and wears tens of thousands of red threads. What is the name of the festival?

It is the Tanabata Festival! The original poem is like this:

"Begging for a coincidence" (1) Tang Lin Jie

Tanabata this evening to see the blue sky (2), pulling the ox and weaving maiden across the river bridge.

Every family begs for coincidence and looks at the moon in autumn, and wears tens of thousands of red threads (3).

Notes

(1) Begging for coincidence: an ancient festival on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as Tanabata.

(2) Bixiao: the vastness of the sky.

(3) Tens of thousands of bars: an imaginary reference, a metaphor for more.

Translation

Looking up at the sky on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it seems that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden are meeting at the Magpie Bridge.

Households are begging for coquettish objects under the autumn moon, and I wonder how many thousands of red silk threads have been threaded.

About the Author

Lin Jie was a poet of the Tang Dynasty. At the age of six, he was able to write poems, and his writing became a chapter. He was also an expert in calligraphy and chess. He died at the age of seventeen. Two of his poems exist in the Quan Tang Poetry.

Lin Jie was a poet of the Tang Dynasty.