The reason for the loss of the traditional customs of Tanabata Day?

The main reason is still the impact of Western culture, because most of our calendars now use the Gregorian calendar, we remember the Western festivals more clearly, the Western Valentine's Day has a very fine, so the Tanabata Day customs slowly fade.

The Tanabata Festival is not only a festival to worship the seven sisters, but also a festival of love, which is a comprehensive festival based on the folklore of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", with the themes of praying for blessings, begging for coincidences, and love, and with women as the main body.

The "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" of Tanabata comes from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the astronomical star area with the geographic area, and this correspondence was called "star division" in terms of astronomy and "field division" in terms of geography. This correspondence is known as "the division of stars" for astronomy and "the division of fields" for geography. According to legend, every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.

Expanded Information

The Tanabata Festival began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, Tanabata was an exclusive festival for pretty girls. Among the many folklore of Tanabata, some of them gradually disappeared, but there are still quite a few of them being carried on by people.

The Tanabata Festival originated in China, and is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, etc. On May 20, 2006, the Tanabata Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council of the People's Republic of China*** and the State Council of the People's Republic of China.